Why are Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid Rivals? | The Madrid Derby 

A smaller Spanish derby is the Galician Derby between the Celta de Vigo and el Deportivo da Coruña, being the teams of the two biggest cities in Galicia (the already mentioned Vigo and A Coruña), which themselves have a long-lasting rivalry. The funny part about the Galician Derby is that it has been basically cancelled since 2018, as the Deportivo has fallen pretty hard into Third Division, while the Celta is still in First Division.

Gotta love sports politics

I remember as a small kid wondering why Atletico Madrid and Athletic Bilbao had such similar names. I never knew there was such a connection!

Atleti fan over here

Atlético* Madrid, not "Athletico"

Real Madrid has 20 Copa del Rey not 40.

i never imagined that this would be such an interesting topic, nice job hilbert!

Hilbert!!! First of all, love the football videos keep it up! Second of all, de Friese derby is a very interesting topic if you're looking for suggestions!

Aren't all derby bitter rivalries though? (Utd- City, LFC-Everton, Arsenal- Chelsea, Arsenal- Tottenham, Rangers-Celtic etc)

Aúpa Rayo! El mejor equipo de Madrid

could have spelt their name right Hilbert 😮

Hello hilbert it’s the people you visited at scouts!! Nearly to 450,000 you can do it!!!

The 3 way derby of Fenerbahce, Galatasaray & Besiktas next

Aren’t Rayo Vallecano and Getafe also full professional football clubs in Madrid?

Hello Hilbert. You can judge the rivalry by how I got some right stick on comments elsewhere for saying how much Atlético improved whilst I was watching them in the Europa Cup, some years back on terrestrial UK TV. They went on to play Real in the Champions League final a couple of years later. It was not as if I expressed a liking for the club, but it certainly got some people's back up. Interesting to see how they were linked to Athletic Club, who also played well in the Europa Cup, back when I was watching. Next time Celtic v Rangers? I might have understood how this could be controversial to comment on.

minute 3:13 that would be Alphonse XIII not VIII :)

You could’ve just spelled it Atletico rather than Athletico

Great Video, I absolutely love your videos on football history

love the football history videos lately

Interesting video, but next time, could you please use the historical club logos?

Atléti fan from outside Spain. I had the privilege to watch some games in the stadium ans I can guarantee you, the athmosfere is amazing❤️🤍

Love these videos so much

I LOVE RAYO VALLECANO, THE SO CALLED GIANT KILLERS :D

Atlético

Great video

Aúpa Atleti

9:08 Wrong data for Real Madrid... LaLiga (x36), UCL (x15) and Copa del Rey (x20)

❤❤ Atletico Madrid 🙂

Love our channel been bing watching it for years, and that vidoe would fit in perfectly with your other vidoes about the line between Germanic an Romance languag lines in Wetsern Europe (think of belgium revolution and such). People need to know that there is an acadamic different between the peopele know as the franks (wich came before) and the French fom 800s onwards,

A suggestion - Los Cincos Grandes from BsAs (Boca Jrs, Racing, River Plate, San Lorenzo & the one I can't remember, perdón pibes)? :)

Where are your sources?

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I followed Spanish scene in past now sadly real ultras are not allowed on stadiums so it's plastic atmosphere. But Athletic has better atmosphere now , Real to much turist fans . Against Modern Footbal!

Is the Kings club I always Support in Life Hala ! Madrid ! The greatest of all time.

More rivalry explanations plz.

I don’t watch football that often, but I’m more inclined with Real Madrid, as most of my family is

As Real Madrid fan I respect atlaty because they are fighters

Rayo Vallecano and Celta for me, baby! If you ever want to go to a game in Spain, sure, hit me up.

Because they're from the same city. Maybe spiced up a bit more since they both high achievers at the top of the league

Where is history?

I am a supporter of the best club in the world, Real Madrid.

I'm an American that neither knows nor cares much about association football, but I like Athletico solely for its emblem's superficial resemblance of the good ol' stars and stripes

I like Atletico but we need to move on from "Cholismo". It's time to think in something bigger.

Freedom Vs Crown Hmmm

Do celtic vs rangers

I am on the side of the underdog, always. So, Athletico is my choice.

how the f*ck real madrid has 40 copa del rey

Well when are different teams from the same city in sports never not rivals?

Atlético de Madrid not Athletico de Madrid.

Ultras sur!!

Politics and football nothing new ,, but on Balkan football =war 13.5. 90 Dinamo Zagreb vs red star After rs ultras started to demolish stadium whit support of communist police ,, Dinamo ultras stormed the pitch and fight vs communist police , even Dinamo players fight vs police..... offcorse match never been played police and army ( which had turn on tanks engines ) escort rs ultras back to serbia , and Dinamo ultras (Bad Blue Boys) rest of the night fight Vs ex yugoslavia regime police ( lot of gun shots injury's , burn cops ...) So for all ultras in Croatia 13.5.90 is official strat of War for independence from communist big serbian yugoslavia.

Visca al Barça! otherwise, Rayo Vallecano in Madrid : republican, anti-fascist, NGO founders supporters. One can only love the soul of this team.

Hala Madrid!

AÚPA ATLETI!!!! I love atletico Madrid! El club de corazón!

You should do a video for the Yugoslav rivalries, there were a lot back then, and now as seperate nations a few have survived( Hajduk-Dinamo, Partizan-Zvezda)

vamos Atleti .

a spanner

Isn't that Alfonso the xiii?

Real - Castilla, Atletico - Madrid, Rayo - Vellecas!

your history is wrong back then player were not paid. and real Madrid was found by Catalan professors and of high school students. that's why Madrid nick name is the institutions . atlatico madrid was the rich and popular team in Madrid until . Santiago took the team by the why he is Catalan to

Always been an Atletico fan because their crest looks the most American lol. This video confirms my suspicion that real madrid is evil and Atletico is the club of freedom! Haha jk but kinda not really.

Barça

Visca barca, please more football videos.

Atleti used to be Franco’s team. And they were also not persecuted under Franco, yet they did not get the preferential treatment like Real.

AUPA ATLETIIIIIIIII

Fun fact Vellacono fans campaigned to not allow a player to play for alleged fascist leanings

HALA MADRID Y NADA MAS

¡Hala Madrid! F** Athletic.

Real Madrid took on Alfredo di Stefano from Argentina.

"Expat Basques"!? Que no se note el independentismo jajaja.

Madridista qui no bote.

Bernabéu was so based, we should go back to his ways. Also, you just straight up lied about the non-white Atlético team performing better than the fully white Real Madrid team. During the 70s Real Madrid won the league 5 times (6 if you count the 79/80 season) while Atlético won the league 3 times. Real Madrid won the Copa del Rey 3 times (4 times if you count the 79/80 season) while Atlético only won it 2 times. So you're just lying, the lesson is actually that you SHOULD have a fully white team lol. Also, correction, we have not won the Copa del Rey 40 times, we've only won it 20 times. But we have been in the final 40 times.

mhdp

Tries to make a documentary. Can’t even spell the name right.

I don't like the football.Real was at 😢😮😮the Franco's dictador

AUPA ATLETI

¡Hala Madrid! y nada más

Forca Barca ❤

As if we needed more reason to view Real Madrid as a trash team with a putrid history

This is 'rivalry' on paper. In reality Real Madrid is way ahead Athletico. Only Barça can pose competition for Real Madrid

Real madrid

Wow they called the other team the Indian's because they hired player's who were not white and the other teams fan's embraced the nickname. If this was a story about an American sports team I can only imagine what people from Europe would say in the comments.

Well, to be honest, Real Madrid fans from Madrid are mostly nice people, but those who are fans of it from the rest of Spain, who have no fucking business being fans of a team from the capital and should instead support their regional teams, are in many cases absolutely bonkers and terrible people. Sadly, during the francoist era, the idea that RM was "the representative team of Spain" got so spread that too many people believed it, and now we have what we have. They would not have got their first 6 European Cups if not because Franco would mainline funds from taxes into the team to fulfill his dream of a team uniting Spain (hey, dude, you had, AND HAVE the Spanish national team for that, you know??? A team that takes part in international competitions and which DOES REPRESENT all Spaniards) into one fandom. RM would be a mostly irrelevant team if not for that. The same could be said about FC Barcelona, tbh, because many people, some from outside Catalonia, but mostly from inside Catalonia but not Barcelona, are ardent fans of it for POLITICAL reasons and have been for generations, as the team that represented the struggle against Franco. Both teams developed into the strongest in Spain and that has had a negative effect in the league overall. Imagine a league in which both Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao had like 3 or 4 teams EACH in the highest tier, like you get in other nations. Sadly, Madrid and Barcelona overshadow any other competitors. It's a miracle that Atletico de Madrid and Espanyol have any degree of relevance.

Up the right wing Real Madrid!

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Unless you support a spanish team, Real Madrid is most peoples favoured team on the big stage. There is something special about winning the greatest trophies simple because you are a winner and not necessarily better than the opposition.

PIN ME 2ND

Can you stop insertign the absurd monolitic right/left wing divide to everything? its reductive and an extremely disingenuous way to reccontextualize history.

Real didn't win the Copa del Rey 40 times wtf. The most successful club of that competition is FC Barcelona who won it 31 times, Real only managed to take the trophy home 20 times