NEW YORK (
) -- Spanish soccer club Real Madrid waited 18 years to hoist the
Copa del Rey
trophy, but when star player Sergio Ramos finally got it in his hands, he dropped it.
Only hours after his team defeated Barcelona 1-0 to win the King's Cup on Wednesday night, Madrid defender Ramos dropped the prestigious trophy from the top of the victory bus as the team was riding through the nation's capital in celebration.
Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo poses with the Copa del Rey trophy after Real Madrid beat FC Barcelona 1-0 on his goal in the final of the Spanish soccer playoffs in Valencia, Spain, on Wednesday. Shortly afterward, the trophy was shattered when Madrid defender Sergio Ramos dropped it from the top of the team bus during celebrations early Thursday morning; the bus then ran over the trophy. |
The front right wheel of the bus rolled over the trophy before the driver stopped. The cup, weighing 33 pounds, was smashed into "at least 10 pieces," according to a report in
El Mundo
.
Emergency crews gathered the broken pieces and returned them to the bus. Needless to say, the trophy was not on display at the Plaza de Cibeles in central Madrid where the club continued its celebration later that night.
Later, Ramos joked about the incident on his Twitter account.
"The whole thing about the cup was a misunderstanding; it didn't fall," he tweeted. "It jumped off when it reached Cibeles and saw so many Madrid fans."
The club said Thursday that the trophy will be repaired and that a replica has been placed in the club's museum in the meantime.
"It is not in good shape, evidently, it was run over by a bus," Madrid spokeswoman Marta Santisteban told
The Associated Press
. "It has to be fixed."
Watch
Sky News'
raw video footage of Ramos dropping the prized trophy here:
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