Utter Humiliation

This is one of the biggest headline in 2009. Real Madrid booked the papers' headlines when they signed Cristiano Ronaldo for 94 million euros and Kaka as well. A few months later, they did the same (made some headlines), but for different reason.

Third division team, Alcorcon, completely stunned Los Galacticos. They destroyed Real Madrid 4-0. This is truly one of the biggest giant-killing in this century.

I hadn't even heard the name of Alcorcon before this match. I thought it was a bird, yes, a bird. They played their trade in the third lier of Spanish league. It should be a miss-match on paper. Yet Alcorcon players have definitely swung our beliefs.

We will first look at the Real Madrid squad against Alcorcon. This was a star-studded line-up to be honest. International players are all here, Dudek, Arbeloa, Metzelder, Albiol, Drenthe, Diarra, Granero, Guti, van der Vaart, Benzema, Raul. Even van Nistelrooy would start from the bench. Then, there was actually no reason or excuse for that utter humiliation.

We are now in a world where a team whose value is less than 1,2 million euros can tear apart team which is valued at more than 400 million euros, more than 200 times of their size.

The second leg in Bernabeu ended 1-0 for Madrid, yet Madrid had to wait until 81st minute before Rafael van der Vaart grabbed the only goal of the game. Unfortunately, that goal looked like a consolation, because in the end Madrid were eliminated by 1-4 aggregate. 9 times European champion needed 181 minutes (plus injury times) to score against a team, whose highest position ever in the history is just the 3rd place in SEGUNDA DIVISION B.