The Spanish press is quickly ignoring Real Madrid's Champions League victory on Saturday, with all eyes on next season's efforts.
After Los Blancos won their 14th Champions League match (no other team has more than seven), AS headlined 'now to the fifteenth,' while Marca's front page read 'the beautiful girl,' a Spanish term for the number 15.
Given that the team has won European football's premier award five times in the last nine years, complacency is natural.
Los Blancos defeated Liverpool at the Stade de France thanks to a 59th-minute goal from Vinicuis Junior. Real was able to win the trophy thanks to Thibaut Courtois' outstanding performance in goal.
It was a strong performance against a team that had only lost twice all season, and it capped off a historic European campaign for the Spanish team, which included comeback victories in the round of 16, quarter final, and semi final.
Karim Benzema, who scored 15 goals in 12 games in the competition, including hattricks against PSG and Chelsea, led them to the final.
Real also won La Liga and the Supercopa de Espana, becoming Carlo Ancelotti the first manager in club history to win all six available trophies (he previously won the Copa del Rey, Club World Cup, and UEFA Super Cup in 2014) and the first manager to win each of Europe's top five championships.
Thousands gathered in Madrid on Sunday Celebrations to see players celebrating outside City Hall in honor of their team's dominant season. Later, Ancelotti led a trip to the famed Catedral de la Almudena in the city, where the team was photographed with their trophies.
The players, notably departing winger Gareth Bale, who won his fifth Champions League with the club despite a tumultuous relationship with the fans, media, and management in Madrid, wore black suits for the event.
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