Sun, 14 Nov 2010
Madrid - Catalan sports paper Mundo Deportivo published on Sunday an interesting story of how love can overcome football fanaticism.
Estefania, a girl from the small town of Aljaraque in the Andalusian province of Huelva, has been a fan of Spanish champions Barcelona all her life. However, her boyfriend Samuel supports Real Madrid, Barca's historic rivals.
Samuel tried to propose marriage to Estefania two weeks ago in Aljaraque but Estefania insisted that she would only accept his proposal if it was made at Barcelona's Camp Nou stadium.
They made the long trip to Barcelona for Saturday's 3-1 defeat of Villarreal. At the end of the game, at midnight, Samuel took Estefania down onto the hallowed turf, went down on bended knee and proposed.
She accepted, but only after imposing another condition: that their children be Barca rather than Real fans.
Estefania told Mundo Deportivo afterward that "this is the first time that I have been to the Camp Nou, and I will never forget it." She added that "I love him, even though he is of Real Madrid, because he is the most handsome boy in our town."
They will make the return trip to Aljaraque on Sunday.
Barca's win - with two second-half goals from Lionel Messi - leaves them on top of La Liga, two points above a Real Madrid side who are away to lowly Sporting Gijon on Sunday.
As they drive back down south, Estefania will be hoping that Gijon keep Real at bay - whilst Samuel will be cheering on Cristiano Ronaldo and company.
Source: Earth Times.
Link: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/news/353462,boyfriend-propose-barcelonas-stadium.html.
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