Forging Glory

A Brief History of Real Madrid told by a soccer-loving philosopher

What kind of determination drives Real Madrid to be the best of the best year after year, and to achieve it with unusual frequency? How do you explain that it has been the most successful club on the world for a century and more? Maybe taking prestige so seriously increments the amount of expertise, since one of the substantial advantages of sport over any other competitive activity is that it does not banish the magnetism of war, in fact it is tamed by the rule of fair play. Maybe its that fair play, combined with an unique idiosyncrasy to understand this sport, which has led the team to be the epitome of football glory.

Since its foundation in 1902 by two Catalan brothers to the expectation created by a new and colossal stadium for the future, and through the visionary character of Santiago Bernabéu and its current president, the reader will find arguments through the pages of this book to debunk its black legend, as well as the keys and details that have lead Real Madrid to be the most successful, famous and cosmopolitan enterprise that Spain has given to the world.

Antonio Escohotado and Jesús Bengoechea examine the most admired (and envied) sports institutions past looking for answers, and incidentally they put its historical vicissitudes in context on light of the history of Spain and the rest of the world.