Xabi Alonso, released in a big party for the double!

Bayer Leverkusen players and their coach Xabi Alonso triumphantly received on Sunday at midnight in the BayArena, after an hour-long parade through the streets of the city, to celebrate the historic double (Bundesliga and DFB Pokal) with which they closed the best season in the club’s 119 years. having .

Around 2:00 pm, the goalkeeper and captain Lukas Hradecky and the central defender and second captain Jonathan Tah They were the first to get off the plane that took them from Berlin, where they won the DFB Pokal final against Kaiserslautern (0-1) on Saturday, to Cologne/Bonn airport.

Most people are taking a bath

Hradecky lifted the impressive DFB Pokal champion trophy, while Well They carry the salad bowl as Bundesliga winners. Both titles were achieved by the team of Xabi Alonso without losing a single one of the 40 games played (34 in the league and 6 in the cup). In fact, Leverkusen has suffered only one defeat in its 53 games this season: last Wednesday’s Europa League final against Atalanta (3-0).

After stopping at Morsbroich Castle to sign the city’s guest book, the players boarded a double-decker bus that took an hour to travel the 4 or 5 kilometers to the BayArena because of the crowds that gathered around it.

End of the party at BayArena

Accompanied by thousands of fans and steps from the Rhine, the players signed autographs and took selfies along the way before entering the BayArena lawn around 5:00 pm

That was then Xabi Alonso and his players gave freedom in the euphoria, which until then they hardly had the chance to share with their fans after securing the Bundesliga in Leverkusen’s history in mid-April.

Since then his goal has been to complete a perfect, undefeated season. They became the first team to win the double in Germany without losing a single match. Only the Europa League escaped.