Barcelona was riding the crest of a historical buzz wave while defeating arch-rivals Real Madrid 4-0 over the weekend. In fact, at the roadshow event Saturday attended by Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez too, PM Narendra Modi boasted that the intensity of rival fan base rivalry is just the same when comparing Spain with India.
"Spanish football is loved much in India. Yesterday, the match between Real Madrid and Barcelona, and the discussions were held in India, too. The great win of Barcelona was also a subject of discussion here as well. I can also tell you that there was as much banter between the fans of the two clubs in India, as it would have been in Spain," PM Modi said while speaking at the event.
PM Modi and Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez inaugurated the TATA Aircraft Complex in Vadodara city. This is a landmark step for the "Make in India" initiative in the aviation sector.
The Final Assembly Line (FAL) Plant for the C295 military aircraft developed by Tata Advanced Systems with cooperation from Airbus Spain was unveiled by the two leaders.
It was one of the most important victories by Barcelona in the recent El Clasico. Under the Hansi Flick regime, the club is establishing itself quickly as a team to beat in Europe.
After an extremely intense first half, where the deadlock was held, the floodgates opened fast through a quickfire brace by Robert Lewandowski which followed up with goals by Lamine Yamal, the youngest goal scorer in Clasico history, and Raphinha to make sure that it was the heavy defeat at Real Madrid's fortress, the Santiago Bernabeu.
In the meantime, Barca had dominated their German rivals, FC Bayern Munich 4-1 in another conclusive victory before the game against Real Madrid.
It was a win that meant another thing. Poetically, Barcelona's victory ended Real Madrid's historical 42-game unbeaten run but in the process preserved their record of the longest unbeaten streak in La Liga history by Ernesto Valverde's Barcelona, which is 43-match streak between 2017 and 2018.
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