Lining up to welcome your opponent in the arena is a way to show respect for your opponent on the one hand, and on the other hand, it can actually motivate yourself and accumulate a lot of experience.

Even the sworn enemies of Barcelona and Real Madrid. In the history of La Liga, the opponent has been welcomed in a line!

In the 90-91 season, Cruyff's Barcelona was invincible in La Liga, and they laid a great advantage early, before the final round of the La Liga national derby, Barcelona had won the La Liga championship with a 13-point advantage, so in order to pay tribute to the champion, Real Madrid held a team welcome ceremony for Barcelona at the Bernabeu.

In this game, Real Madrid defeated the new La Liga champion with a score of 1:0, which can be regarded as a relatively ideal result.

In the 07-08 season, although Real Madrid did not have much advantage in the lineup, they were united enough and the players were in good condition, on the contrary, Barcelona fell into a slump after experiencing glory, and several major attackers in the front court were not in shape, so Real Madrid opened the gap in points early, and finally Real Madrid won the La Liga championship three rounds in advance.

In the ensuing national derby, Barcelona gave Real Madrid a round of applause away from home. Perhaps because the players were in a bad mood, Barcelona was completely suppressed in this game and ended up with a 1:4 rout.

The rift came in 2011, when Real Madrid's manager was "Madman" Jose Mourinho.

In the Spanish Super Cup before the start of La Liga, Mourinho refused to let Real Madrid line up for Barcelona, who won the UEFA Super Cup. Although Casillas, the captain of Real Madrid at the time, disagreed, Mourinho was adamant not to let Real Madrid line up.

The seeds of hatred were sown, and in the 2017 Spanish Super Cup, Barcelona also refused to line up for Real Madrid, who won the UEFA Super Cup. This incident also caused Zidane's extreme dissatisfaction. Then there was the Spanish national derby Zinedine Zidane's refusal to let Real Madrid line up for Barcelona.

Refuse to line up for the championship and sweep the La Liga champions for the first time!

In addition to La Liga, there have been many stories of teams lining up to welcome their opponents in other arenas.

After Abou took charge of Chelsea, Chelsea quickly became a force to be reckoned with in the Premier League. In the 04/05 season, Chelsea led the way under Jose Mourinho and eventually brought the Blues their first league title in their history!

As the "class leader" of the Premier League at that time, Manchester United sent sincere wishes to the new champions. When Chelsea visited Old Trafford, Sir Alex Ferguson paid his respects to the king by lining up his disciples to welcome the new champion, which became a talk of conversation at the time.

Since the opponent has given you respect, you must return it at the appropriate time.

In the 06-07 season, Manchester United regained its dominance with the rise of new stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo and Wayne Rooney. In the 37th round, with Cristiano Ronaldo's penalty goal, Manchester United won the Premier League title two rounds earlier after winning the Manchester derby away, and in the next rematch with Chelsea, in order to thank the respect of two years ago, Mourinho led his disciples to welcome Manchester United on the sidelines.

Among them, Dong Fangzhuo also made his Premier League debut in this campaign!

In the 12-13 season, Manchester United won the league title four rounds ahead of schedule under Alex Ferguson, and the biggest contributor to the championship was Robin van Persie, who moved from Arsenal.

So when fans learned that their team was going to welcome Manchester United, many expressed their displeasure, after all, Robin van Persie was a traitor to Arsenal. But in the end, Arsene Wenger decided to line up to welcome the plan, so before the two sides competed, Arsenal's main team and substitutes lined up to welcome the new champions Manchester United.

It is worth mentioning that when Van Persie came on the field, Arsenal fans did not act too aggressively, and finally expressed their approval of him.

The 14-15 season was one of the most glorious for the Blues.

With Chelsea's narrow 1-0 win at home to Crystal Palace in the 35th round, the Blues were able to claim the league title three games ahead of schedule. As a sign of honour for the title, Chelsea's next rivals, Liverpool, have made the decision to welcome champions Chelsea into the stadium early, which is a great honour for the Blues.

Chelsea played slowly in the Liverpool lineup, although the Liverpool players applauded, but I believe that their hearts will not give in, especially Gerrard, the Reds did not win the league championship until he retired, which is a big pity!

It's hard to find a time for professional football to welcome a champion for the first time, but it's not surprising.

We can find similar examples as early as ancient Greek mythology and the history of the Middle Ages. In Homer's epic poems, Greek soldiers were greeted in honor of their heroes who died in battle.

And this concept has also been implanted in modern armies, especially in the United Kingdom, which values chivalry. As a rule, the military of most countries bears the duty of saluting in a procession, which is what we call a guard of honor. In England, the ceremonial parade was carried out by the Guards Infantry, or Household Cavalry Regiment.

As a result, this method of showing respect was brought into the world of English football, and over time, it became popular on the European continent.

The record dates back to Sir Busby in 1955, when Drake led Chelsea to their first English First Division title one round earlier. In the final game, at Old Trafford, then-Manchester United boss Busby ordered the United players to line up at the entrance to welcome the Chelsea players, starting the 'tradition' of the Red Devils and Blues lining up with each other.

Of course, while the welcome was applauded, it was still a non-mandatory move and the decision was entirely up to the manager.

In a low-level competition like La Liga, Malaga's presence at home to welcome Granada is definitely a sign of goodwill! On the one hand, the head coach of Malaga, Michel, out of respect for Granada's strength, also hopes to inspire the players to do their best in the next play-off matches to win the last promotion place in La Liga!

There is promotion and there is relegation, as early as May, the three teams that will be relegated from La Liga have been determined, namely Rayo Vallecano, Huesca and Girona!

When the Granada players held back the smiles on their faces and high-fived the Malaga players to accept the applause of the fans on the sidelines, the result of the game was already written, and finally after 90 minutes, Granada and Malaga drew 0:0!

This also means that Granada is the champion of the Spanish second division in the 2018-2019 season! Ji Qin changed history, he put the championship trophy that originally belonged to Osasuna into Granada's arms through Wu Lei!