BILBAO, Spain -- "We had ten commandments in the dressing room and one was: don't mention the gabarra," Nico Williams said when at long, long last they could after winning the final of the Copa del Rey (stream a replay on ESPN+, U.S. only). "If you did, you had to cross yourself, confess to Jesus Christ. The gabarra was the unnamable." It was, but now they have seen it. Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them with their own eyes. A million or more, the mayor said. And it was real.
After 40-year wait, Athletic finally set sail on the gabarra
