Everyone attends the call of the classic: the teams, the fans that will fill the stadium, celebrities of all ranks, the galaxy of viewers scattered around the planet and an industry that does not stop capturing football and is excited by the confrontation of the two giants of Spanish football.
After 93 years of the championship, the last edition will be played at the Bernabeú before the futuristic building that is coming, probably with a commercial name attached to that of the legendary president of Real Madrid, just as the Barça field is now called Spotify Camp Nou .
The collecting greed obliges.
Barça, so jealous for years of advertising on their shirts, today will wear an owl screen-printed on the jerseys of their players.
It is the logo of Canadian rapper Drake, the first singer with more than 50,000 million views on Spotify.
They say that this occurrence will serve to unite music and football.
They will believe that the trola strains.
So many commercial layers and so many economic interests agglomerate over football that it will be the job of archaeologists to find the object of so much passion, the cosmic fervor that a match of this magnitude provokes, which on this occasion brings together two clubs and two teams in almost opposite dynamics .
Gone are the years of Cristiano and Messi in the apotheosis of what then began to be called classic, a term by which the Argentine River-Boca was known and which Alfredo Relaño successfully transferred to Spain, when the two teams disputed the top of the world through ingenuity and competitive fierceness.
Despite its recent baptism, the Spanish classic has overflowed geographical and temporal borders.
It seems that it has been here since the beginning of time, and strictly speaking it is, although not always in the overwhelming current terms.
No matter the situation of the two teams, each edition offers suggestive aspects, and this one has its crumb.
On one side, Real Madrid, second classified and quiet pursuer.
It comes from winning the European Cup and qualifying for the next round of the Champions League.
He is about to reopen a stadium that will be the envy of the world and is football's most attractive trademark.
A defeat against Barça would damage the pride of Real Madrid, but without major consequences.
Serenity reigns in the club and in the team, which oscillates between the chair of the veterans (Modric, Benzema, Kroos, Courtois...) and the energy of the youngsters.
People like Vinicius, Rodrygo, Valverde, Tchuameni and Camavinga begin to show, to a greater or lesser extent, the signs of authority that reassure their parish.
Barça destroyed Madrid in the previous season, the 0-4 that seemed to herald the advent of the team after three dreadful seasons.
It turned into fiction.
Barça later crashed with Eintracht in the Europa League, where it will almost certainly return this season.
Once again he has slipped into the first round of the Champions League, but this time with a squad that promised satisfaction and not the toad that the club has just eaten.
Although the leader, Barça arrives at the Bernabéu in critical condition.
A defeat would aggravate the state of disappointment of the barcelonismo.
Xavi, hired for his status as a culé myth, saved Laporta the previous season.
This time, the president has pulled all kinds of levers to put together a magnificent squad.
He has passed the ball to Xavi.
As a player you threw a bucket at him and he controlled it.
He will need to regain that technical prowess.
The elimination in the Champions League places the coach in a very uncomfortable position against the classic, with no margin for a fiasco.
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