More than a million people filled both banks of the Bilbao estuary to celebrate the Cup title with the barge that crossed its waters. It was the total party, just like those that Patxo Unzueta recounted four decades ago in the pages of EL PAÍS.
Dozens of coaches also arrived from Vitoria and more than a dozen from Madrid. All the red and white fans wanted to celebrate a title that lasted 40 years. Andoni Zubizarreta, Manolo Sarabia, Txetxu Gallego, Dani, Liceranzu, Bolaños and other veterans who at the time traveled on the b barges, repeated the journey. The trip continued between Lamiako and Sestao. To the right, thousands of fans dressed in Athletic shirts greeted. On the left, in what were the Vizcaya Blast Furnaces, a hundred workers with their helmets, like those who appear in the 1983 photographs.