Today Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid will contest the first-ever meeting between two city rivals for the biggest prize in European club football SIA reports.
The two teams from the Spanish capital have decamped to Lisbon for the UEFA Champions League final.
Real, meanwhile, have history of their own in sight, with the nine-time European champions targeting La Decima - their 10th triumph in the continent's showpiece competition - in their first final since 2002, when Bayer Leverkusen were defeated at Hampden Park thanks in part to Zinedine Zidane's sumptuous volley.
Real's Portuguese superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, whose 16 goals in this season's competition are a record, told uefa.com: "It is a moment that all Madridistas are dreaming about - the 'decima. It is a trophy we have been looking to win for many years. Real Madrid have wanted it for a long time. Since the first day we came here, we've felt that positive pressure to win the Champions League. We feel like we are now one small step away from winning".
Atletico are appearing in only their second European Cup final, with their first coming back in 1974 against Bayern Munich, with the German giants emerging victorious in a replay at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels.
Simeone, who has already won the league, Copa del Rey and Europa League in just three seasons as Atletico coach, said: "It's the fruit of the labour that we've been doing for nearly three.
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