#pantic

her name is margarita luengo, she’s now 71 and she has spent 23 leaving flowers in the same corner of the calderón, and now of the metropolitano. the bouquet is always 24 carnations (twelve white and twelve reds) and in honour of milinko pantic, one of the atléti legends who managed the doblete of 96.

the story started like this according to her: “we were at our peña one afternoon (a bar near the stadium) and there was a bouquet of carnations. i told the manager, give me four carnations that are the four goals we are going to score against athletic bilbao this afternoon. it was a great game and for each goal i threw a carnation onto the field. in the end i launched the four. two of the four goals started on a corner kick by pantic. from that day i began to take a bouquet of flowers to the corner.”

also at the very beginning the flowers annoyed pantic so he pushed them to take his corner and margarita managed to get a note to him telling him the flowers were for him. and pantic found her number, called her and apologised and thanked her and offered her a signed jersey of his? and since then las flores de margarita are sacred, you don’t move them. 

you’re moved yet? wait until you hear about what pantic did during the final de leyenda. he offered some flowers to margarita :’)