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MADRID (AFP) – Real Madrid bathed in the adulation of joyous fans weekday after edging bend rivals Barcelona 1-0 in player instance to snatch the King's Cup for the prototypal instance since 1993.

Tens of thousands of fans danced and sang in a drunken, music-charged night in bicentric Madrid's Cibeles Square and newspapers concentrated praise on the players, singling discover Cristiano Ronaldo and European coach Jose Mourinho.

A coercive brick from Ronaldo in player instance sealed the win, delivering Real's prototypal husbandly cup in 18 eld and coach Jose Mourinho's prototypal accolade since joining the edifice terminal May.

The victors flew direct to Madrid and were ferried in an open-top charabanc to a raucous recognize in Cibeles at about 4.30 a.m. (0230 GMT) with clunk music, and lights shining on the team logo on the municipality hall.

But meet before incoming the square, defender Sergio Ramos permit the 15-kilo (33-pound) split accolade artefact from his hands. It fell low the team bus, which ran over it and reportedly poor it into at small 10 pieces.

"It fell, it fell, it's fine, it's fine," Ramos told reporters when asked about the slip. But the Cup, Spain's most treasured husbandly sport trophy, was not shown again.

"Champions!" blared the face tender of the Real Madrid-leaning sports regular Marca, wetting photos of the undefeated team holding the Cup and players throwing Mourinho into the air.

"Cristiano changes history," said the paper.

"A fantastic brick by Ronaldo in player instance ends a no-holds-barred, nearly ferocious final."

Rival sports regular AS proclaimed it "a triumph of strength and faith."

The biggest daily, El Pais, said Ronaldo and Mourinho's team had been comate after a "colossal duel."

Most writing agreed Real Madrid had the meliorate prototypal half, Barcelona came backwards in the ordinal but Ronaldo ended it all off.

"Epic Real Madrid," headlined the regular El Mundo.

Last weekend Real ended a separate of five straight defeats against Barca with a 1-1 entertainer in the league but at the Mestalla Stadium they went digit meliorate with their prototypal accolade since 2008.

There still remain digit more mouth-watering matches between the rivals in the Champions League semi-finals on April 27 and May 3.

Catalan regular Sport showed a picture of the foiled Barcelona low a headline: "Now to get even in the Champions".

"It was not to be. Barca were mitt without the Cup but, as the saying goes, destiny ever offers a ordinal chance. Pep Guardiola's team module have a quantity to compensate for their setback in the Mestalla in the incoming digit weeks in the Champions League.

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