Barcelona face Real Madrid in El Clasico on Saturday, with both clubs bidding farewell to icons.
For Barcelona it will offer the opportunity to remember Johan Cruyff. Fittingly the biggest club match in world football will be the first to be staged at the Camp Nou since his death last week at the age of 68.
The Dutch master was both player and manager at Barcelona and guided the Catalan club to its first ever European Cup triumph in 1992 while laying the foundations of its famous brand of passing football and current dominance.
Barcelona will wear special shirts emblazoned with the message 'Gracies Johan' and before the match the slogan will also be displayed by supporters in the ground. A minute's silence and a video of Cruyff's best moments will be played prior to the La Liga fixture.
It will be a different kind of farewell for Real Madrid, for this is likely to be the last Clasico match to feature Cristiano Ronaldo, who seems destined to quit Spain at the end of the season.
One wonders what he will make of the tributes to Cruyff as he considers his own place in the history of this great fixture.