WTF – Real Madrid Crushes Copa del Rey Trophy

Real Madrid showed that they are ‘el verdaderos campeones’ when they deliberately crushed the recently acquired Copa del Rey trophy under the team bus amid the celebrations of its 1-0 final victory over Barcelona.

As a result the team was forced to put a replica of the trophy on display at the club’s trophy museum inside the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. The owner of the Madrid jewelers that made the trophy provided a replica.

“Sometimes these guys get crazy when they win, so I always make a spare in case something unexpected happens, lest (King Juan Carlos) be left with nothing to give out. The spare has been ready for a long time,” Federico Alegre told daily newspaper El Mundo on Friday.

The “something” happened in the early hours of Thursday morning in Madrid when defender Sergio Ramos took control of the team bus and plowed over the 33-pound trophy crushing it flat like Wile E. Coyote after a run in with the Road Runner.

Emergency services gathered up the pieces and put them inside the bus after it stopped.

“He only drove for five meters in the bus before running over it, it has lost pieces, the base is destroyed and the rest is flattened,” said Alegre, who would attempt to repair the badly damaged original. “I am not sad or even angry. These things happen, it will be another anecdote to be told in the future.”

Said defender Ramos, “What was the trophy doing in front of the bus, and not in a crosswalk. I mean I just got my learner’s permit. I blame Ronaldo! He was the last one to hold it. But really who cares anyway, we got the trophy. It might be a little tarnished but it’s ours, Ours!”

Cristiano Ronaldo headed home the extra-time winner to give Madrid its 18th domestic cup and first since 1993.

UPDATE: Live video of the event show the trophy was clearly in the crosswalk when Ramos runs over it.  Madrid police are not considering criminal charges. Watch.

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The Panza Collection

Count Giuseppe Boomhauer di Biumo is one of the world’s foremost collectors of American and European Panza art. The DC United Trophy Hall recently acquired nine works from Dr. Boomhauer’s collection, all of which are on view this futbol season. As a group, the pieces provide an overview of the critical premises driving Panza art – Conceptual, Space, Minimal, Growth, and Environmental.

Created in the late 1990s and early 2000s by an international roster of beer drinkers and futbol lovers, the works shed light on an era when many Panza artists began to reject traditional media and aesthetic concerns. Instead, they redefined their Panzas in a broader range, from Conceptual works that favored ideas over the creation of unique objects to large-scale installations that challenge prevalent notions about the boundaries between a Panza and the surrounding environment.

Dr. Boomhauer distinguished himself, besides his enormous stomach, by his willingness to collect Panza art that few museums or private collectors are willing to acquire. Now, as part of the Hirshhorn’s collection, these works offer visitors new perspectives on the Panza.

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