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On stage with Celtic's final momentum: Rod Stewart celebrates a big victory party in A Coruna

Imagine your favourite club is playing a big final and you can't be there. That's what happened yesterday. Sir Rod Stewart, an ardent supporter of Celtic Football Club and regular stadium visitor, missed the Scottish League Cup final, in which Celtic beat city rivals Rangers 5-4 on penalties to become Scotland's most successful club, having won 119 trophies. No other club has won more titles. 

Photo: Celtic Football Club
Photo: Celtic Football Club

Only true football fans will understand what Rod must have been like that day. But in the end, his immense professionalism won out and he made a virtue out of (football) necessity. He simply moved the celebrations after Celtic's cup triumph to the north-west of Spain and invited 11,000 people to the party, who all turned up. 

He provided the musical entertainment himself. In high spirits after the Hoops' cup triumph, Rod took to the stage at 9pm sharp and opened the evening with INFATUATION, after which he shouted “Good evening Spain” to the celebrating crowd and announced that “we'll be there for two hours tonight”. 

This was followed by classics such as IT'S A HEARTCHE and FOREVER YOUNG, while BABY JANE and MAGGIE MAY got the audience really out of the saddle for the first time. With YOUNG TURKS, the 79-year-old finally had the fans wrapped around his finger. ‘We're having a great time. It's a great day,’ Rod exclaimed to the 11,000 in top form.

On this rousing and cheerful evening, Sir Rod did not forget the serious things in life and once again dedicated RHYTHM OF MY HEART to the people of Ukraine, with the well-known photo of President Zelensky emblazoned on the screen. 

The last part of the show turned into a ‘big Las Vegas party’, as the online portal El Ideal Gallego called it:  DA YA THINK I'M SEXY and SAILING were the two final highlights of the evening. During SAILING, the ‘gentleman of rock’ (El Ideal Gallego) was accompanied by a huge choir of several thousand voices, after which he waved his white captain's cap and shouted ‘Goodbye A Coruna’ several times to the crowd.

At the end, El Ideal Gallego spoke of a fantastic evening that left him wanting more. The online newspaper La Region called the show ‘unforgettable’ and added: ‘Rod Stewart said goodbye to Spain in style’.

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