{"id":752279,"date":"2026-06-22T06:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752279\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T06:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T06:02:09","slug":"23-years-since-winning-the-29th-football-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/752279\/","title":{"rendered":"23 years since winning the 29th Football League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has been 23 years since Real Madrid won its 29th Football League. On June 22, 2003, our team clinched the championship on the final matchday by defeating Athletic Club (3-1) at the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u. In that game, a brace from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-futbol\/ronaldo-luis-nazario-de-lima\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Ronaldo<\/a> and a goal from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-futbol\/roberto-carlos-da-silva\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Roberto Carlos<\/a> secured another title for the club. The 2002\/03 edition was highly contested, and Real Madrid, with 78 points, edged out Real Sociedad (76).<\/p>\n<p>Under the management of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realmadrid.com\/es-ES\/el-club\/historia\/leyendas-futbol\/vicente-del-bosque-gonzalez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Vicente del Bosque<\/a>, Real Madrid was the highest-scoring team in the league (86 goals). On an individual level, Ronaldo, with 23 goals, finished as Real Madrid&#8217;s top scorer. The League was the third title won that season, following the UEFA Super Cup against Feyenoord and the Intercontinental Cup against Olimpia of Asunci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been 23 years since Real Madrid won its 29th Football League. On June 22, 2003, our&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-752279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}