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The Rising Sun. Good shout.It really is great footage, especially the crowd reactions to the goals
The footage is different from the standard coverage of most matches back then.
Some of this footage is from a supporters perspective.
Founded in 1902 as Madrid Foot-ball Club, the BernabĂ©u is the clubâs sixth stadium although the âestadiosâ used before 1912 were little more than roped-off fields.
The first properly developed ground was the Campo de OâDonnell, which the club used for just over a decade before making the ill-advised move to a newly constructed velodrome in the eastern suburb of Ciudad Lineal.
Away from the centre of town and the nucleus of Real Madridâs support, the club stayed here for little over a year, before decamping to the district of Chamartin and a specially commissioned 15,000-capacity stadium.
The Campo de Chamartin remained the clubâs home for 22 years, although, following its near-destruction during the Civil War, it was rebuilt and, at its peak, held 22,000.
This was not big enough for the former player, club secretary and now club president Santiago Bernabéu.
In 1944, BernabĂ©u approved the purchase of 5 hectares of land that was sandwiched between the existing stadium and the Castellana, or Avenida del GeneralĂsimo Franco as it was then known.
On this site, at a staggering cost of 38 million pesetas, Real Madrid would build the new Estadio Chamartin and Bernabéu himself broke the first ground in October 1944.
The Old and the New. The Nuevo Chamartin starts to take shape.
The new build was on the old stadiumâs doorstep, so close in fact that the northeast corner of the old Chamartin encroached on the new stadiumâs footprint.
Work continued on the other three sides, and Real Madrid finished off the 1945-46 season before finally closing the doors of the old Chamartin in May 1946.
The new stadium took a further 18 months to complete, and so Real Madrid took up residence at AtlĂ©tico Madridâs Estadio Metropolitano.
Finally, on 14 December 1947, Real entertained OS Belenenses of Portugal in the inaugural match at the Nuevo Estadio Chamartin.
Designed by Luis Alemany Soler and Manuel Muñoz Monasterio, the stadium had a capacity of 80,000. It was spread over three sides of open double-deck stands and a lower bank of the uncovered terrace on the east side, where the old stadium had stood.
In the centre of this terrace at the rear stood a neo-classical tower.
Work in Progress â Waiting for the fourth dimension.
If Real Madrid was looking for an immediate on-field impact at their new stadium, they were to be disappointed.
At the end of the 1947-48 season, the club finished eleventh, its lowest ever final placing. It is worth noting that, until the mid-1950s, the clubâs trophy haul was relatively modest.
Their two league titles had both been won more than twenty years earlier, while seven of their nine Copa victories had come before the Spanish Civil War.
Perhaps Bernabéu sensed that the club was on the verge of something extraordinary, for little more than five years after the stadium opened, it entered the next phase of redevelopment.
Home of the European champions. Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in 1957.
The first properly developed ground was the Campo de OâDonnell, which the club used for just over a decade before making the ill-advised move to a newly constructed velodrome in the eastern suburb of Ciudad Lineal.
Away from the centre of town and the nucleus of Real Madridâs support, the club stayed here for little over a year, before decamping to the district of Chamartin and a specially commissioned 15,000-capacity stadium.
The Campo de Chamartin remained the clubâs home for 22 years, although, following its near-destruction during the Civil War, it was rebuilt and, at its peak, held 22,000.
This was not big enough for the former player, club secretary and now club president Santiago Bernabéu.
In 1944, BernabĂ©u approved the purchase of 5 hectares of land that was sandwiched between the existing stadium and the Castellana, or Avenida del GeneralĂsimo Franco as it was then known.
On this site, at a staggering cost of 38 million pesetas, Real Madrid would build the new Estadio Chamartin and Bernabéu himself broke the first ground in October 1944.
The new build was on the old stadiumâs doorstep, so close in fact that the northeast corner of the old Chamartin encroached on the new stadiumâs footprint.
Work continued on the other three sides, and Real Madrid finished off the 1945-46 season before finally closing the doors of the old Chamartin in May 1946.
The new stadium took a further 18 months to complete, and so Real Madrid took up residence at AtlĂ©tico Madridâs Estadio Metropolitano.
Finally, on 14 December 1947, Real entertained OS Belenenses of Portugal in the inaugural match at the Nuevo Estadio Chamartin.
Designed by Luis Alemany Soler and Manuel Muñoz Monasterio, the stadium had a capacity of 80,000. It was spread over three sides of open double-deck stands and a lower bank of the uncovered terrace on the east side, where the old stadium had stood.
In the centre of this terrace at the rear stood a neo-classical tower.
Work in Progress â Waiting for the fourth dimension.
If Real Madrid was looking for an immediate on-field impact at their new stadium, they were to be disappointed.
At the end of the 1947-48 season, the club finished eleventh, its lowest ever final placing. It is worth noting that, until the mid-1950s, the clubâs trophy haul was relatively modest.
Their two league titles had both been won more than twenty years earlier, while seven of their nine Copa victories had come before the Spanish Civil War.
Perhaps Bernabéu sensed that the club was on the verge of something extraordinary, for little more than five years after the stadium opened, it entered the next phase of redevelopment.
Home of the European champions. Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in 1957.
The Rising Sun
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Is that a training pitch next to it?