Applause for the Italian champions. Before today’s match at San Siro between Inter and Torino, the Granata team wanted to honor their opponents who won the Scudetto last week thanks to the success in the derby against Milan: pasillo de honor by Juric’s team, who welcomed the Inter players with compliments and applause on a catwalk dedicated to the champions. What in is literally a “corridor of honor“.
WHAT IS THE PASILLO DE HONOR – A tradition born in Spain, according to which the winners of a competition – La Liga or Copa del Rey – are applauded by their opponents. In the last days of La Liga we often see scenes of pasillo de honor, with the champions who enter the field the week after the triumph to the applause of the opposing players. A couple of years ago there was even a double match between Real Madrid and Betis Seville: the former had won the championship and the latter the national cup.
THE REAL MADRID-BARCELONA CASE – Even in Spain, however, it happened that tradition was not respected. A custom broken by the historic rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid: when one of the two wins the League and finds themselves facing the other team in the last days of the championship, it happened that the pasillo de honor was not respected as on other occasions.
THE PASILLO DE HONOR IN ITALY – The pasillo de honor is a gesture sometimes also taken up in Italy: last year Fiorentina at Maradona welcomed Italian champions Napoli the week after the Scudetto became official; a few years earlier, Claudio Ranieri’s Sampdoria applauded Inter who had just won the championship with Antonio Conte on the bench.
