The Santiago Bernabéu hosted the presentation of the National Football League (NFL) match which will be played this year in our stadium. The Miami Dolphins will be one of the two teams that will take part in this first official meeting in the history of the American Football League in Spain. President Florentino Pérez, Brett Gosper, NFL Director of Europe and Asia-Pacific, Pri Shumate, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer of the Miami Dolphins, Jose Luis Martínez-Almeida, Mayor of Madrid, and Mariana de Paco, Advisor culture, tourism and sports of the Community of Madrid, attended the event.
The president of Real Madrid spoke first: “For us, it is a great honor that a competition as big and prestigious as the NFL has chosen the Bernabéu to make it its own home. It is an immense pride for all of us, for Madridistasfor Madrilenians and for Spaniards, that Madrid and the Bernabéu can transmit to the whole world everything that one of the most important sports in the United States represents.”
A global stadium
“The NFL will be the main protagonist of an event that will tour the world. And it will do it in a Bernabéu that has been transformed to be able to experience these emotions and to remain a global stadium. A stadium that has become a reference in state-of-the-art architecture and engineering and who is ready to take on any challenge.”
A great sports festival
“The Bernabéu is prestigious for Real Madrid. It is prestige for Madrid and prestige for Spain. This means that for all of us it is also a great responsibility that the leaders of the NFL have chosen our country, our city and our stadium to present one of the most important competitions in the world.”
Brett Gosper: “We couldn’t be more excited to play here”
“We are delighted to be able to play at the Bernabéu. Thank you very much for being our partner in this adventure. We want to share this sport with the whole world and we could not be more excited than to play here next season. Madrid is a center world of culture, art, entertainment and tourism.
Pri Shumate: “For the Miami Dolphins, it’s an honor in this iconic stadium”
“Thank you very much to Real Madrid for hosting us in such a wonderful place. It is an honor for me to be here on behalf of the Miami Dolphins. We couldn’t be happier to play the first NFL game in Spain in this iconic stadium, in this beautiful home. We are in a unique position to attract new fans to American football.
José Luis Martínez-Almeida: “Madrid has the best venue for the best competition”
“We are going to be the best of the six cities that are going to host an international NFL game. And we couldn’t have done it without the window to the world that Madrid has, namely Real Madrid. This club has taken a commitment to the city by renovating the Santiago Bernabéu stadium and creating an infrastructure that allows us to host events that could not have come otherwise. We have the best venue for the best competition.
Mariano de Paco: “It will be one of the greatest sporting spectacles on the international scene”
“It is a pleasure to be in this emblematic stadium to present what will be one of the greatest sporting spectacles on the international scene. We will be able to enjoy an event which represents the close collaboration between two communities, Spanish and North American, who share the same vision of sport as an engine of social, economic and cultural development”.
