The Yeyés get a doctorate before the malefic HH

Suárez rescues a ball from the small area, in the presence of Facchetti, Sarti and Pirri, at the Bernabéu.

The semifinals of the XI European Cup faced Madrid with Inter, champions of the two previous editions.

The first of them, won against Madrid, meant the departure of Di Stéfano and the end of a cycle.

Madrid arrived with no other survivor of the glory years than Gento, surrounded by young boys.

A happy team spontaneously baptized as

, in keeping with the times.

Ye-yés were then called young addicts to English music and capillary rebellion.

• Pelé in Rivilla's goodbye

• A Betis-Real Sociedad of unfortunate memory

• Switzerland left us without the 1958 World Cup

Inter was the same, only more set.

A group of celebrities among which Luis Suárez stood out, still today our only Ballon d'Or. He was trained by Helenio Herrera, nemesis of Real Madrid since he coached Barça a few years before.

For many a magician, for others, a loudmouth.

Against what he had done at Barça, a great scorer, at Inter he established a legendary lock.

His was a controversial and mysterious football.

For the first time I saw in a newspaper (

) a graphic scheme on tactical movements with arrows.

Facchetti's, occupying the entire left wing, was impressive.

They faced each other at the Bernabéu, a sea of ​​homemade banners, on the night of April 13, 1966. Here the modest teams went out to close in the fields of the greats, but that day had never been seen.

Bedin, closing medium, came out with the 11 of the Corso winger, and his 4 was carried by Landini, a central defender.

Five defenders, protected by Mazzola, Bedin and Suárez.

Upstairs only Jair and Peiro remained.

Madrid was taken away and in the 12th minute a goal from Pirri arrived, which produced the double effect of redoubling the offense and accentuating the bolt.

The ye-yés bounced over and over again from that blue and black painted pediment.

Betancort came to rest limping, with a hint of a jerk after a risky exit in a very rare escape from Inter.

In 47 ', in a similar play, he is definitely lame.

There was no substitution.

The referee, Dutchman Wlachojanis, allows himself to be massaged for seven minutes.

At last he stands up, with a large thigh and on his limp leg.

Thus he endured the entire second half, while Madrid attacked and attacked furiously in search of more goals and the public was outraged by the way in which Inter was wasting time, and with the referee, by pushing in the area and by a penalty to Gento.

In any getaway, Inter had the goal at hand, but he only approached with a long shot, which Betancort cleared as best he could with his foot, in a gallop by Peiró, which Sanchis reached in extremis, and a third, already at the end, translated into three consecutive corners, which caused anguish due to the invalidity of the goal.

Right after the third came the end.

The referee only deducted 4 minutes, to the outrage of the Bernabéu.

He would explain that he favored Madrid by allowing such extensive attention to Betancort, and that he thus compensated.

Miguel Muñoz's statements were tremendous: “What you have seen is Inter.

His best tactic is to buy from the judges. "

For the return, HH prepares a hellish atmosphere.

They ask him if the new Madrid is stronger tactically or technically, and he answers: "Chemically."

And he adds: “Two years ago we retired Di Stéfano.

Now we will close Madrid ”.

Puskas travels, already in his last year, usable only for friendlies and easy Cup matches. Helenio Herrera says he travels to work on the referee, the Hungarian Vadas.

Unknown environment in Spain, with flares and giant flags.

Muñoz changes the numbers of Pirri and Velázquez, usually 4 and 10, because Velázquez will mark Corso and Pirri will go later, on Suárez.

Those players were still so new that Matías Prats gave their names confused until at half-time someone told him.

Madrid waits, but Inter does not overturn.

In the 20th minute, a pass from Velázquez reached Amancio, who took off Libero Picchi and beat Sarti with serenity.

The flags are quiet.

Inter need to attack, but clearly it is not their thing.

Madrid unfolds with caution and creates its chances.

In his own area, Araquistain limits himself to a good stop and to solve residual work.

Only in 1980, when part of the public was already marching, did the local goal arrive, the work of Facchetti, for once neglected by Serena.

That doubles the emotion of the game and causes anguish in the viewers in Madrid, but it was clear that the attack was not Inter's.

There was no more movement.

And Helenio Herrera, so talkative by nature, went home for once without saying a word.

And the happy ye-yés would win the final at Partizan a few weeks later.