Mount Royal Soccer · Mar 5, 2021
Athletic Bilbao To Go Gathering Cups In Spring?
Photo by David S. Bustamante/Soccrates/Getty Images Iker Muniain of Athletic Bilbao celebrates victory last night in the Spanish Copa del Rey semi-final against Levante at the Estadi Ciutat de Valencia.The bizarre scenarios thrown up by Covid....
Such has been the determination to complete each of the last two season’s Copa del Rey competitions and the need to cram them in somewhere in the hectic Spanish season, a scenario now exists where Athletic Bilbao must play two Copa finals within two weeks of each other.
Last season (2019/20) they reached the final where they were due to face Real Sociedad in a Basque Classico in Seville, before coronavirus halted the competition.