Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo has admitted that the club could "adapt" its traditional anthem, amid continuing protests over a controversial modernisation of the club's badge ahead of its stadium move next summer.
Atletico's very popular hymn dates from 1972 and includes much-loved lines about "fighting together like brothers" and showing "courage and heart," but also refers in its lyrics to attending games at the Estadio Vicente Calderon, which the club are leaving next summer after 50 years of playing there.
The long-planned move to a former Olympic athletics stadium on the outskirts of the Spanish capital has also raised questions among some Atletico fans worried about the financing involved, but the club are pushing ahead and say that from 2016-17 their home will be called the Wanda Metropolitano.
Speaking to AS, long-serving club president Cerezo said there no change was "currently" planned to the anthem, while suggesting that at some point it would be changed to reflect the new situation.
"I never said that I did not discard changing the club anthem," Cerezo said. "What I said is that, at the moment, we are not working on the anthem. At the moment we have other important things to be doing. Later we will see how we adapt the anthem to what we have to do."
The likely anthem change comes amid continuing protests at the Calderon from fans unhappy at a change to the club's badge announced last December. The issue has rumbled on in the local media, and chants of "Hands off the badge" have been heard at each home game recently, with an organised protest taking place during Thursday's 3-0 Copa del Rey victory at home to Eibar.
Colchoneros coach Diego Simeone said before the winter break that such changes were normal in the modern world, while adding that his focus was on what happened on the pitch.
On Thursday the former Atletico midfielder and huge fans favourite dodged a question about the fans protests at the post-game news conference.
"The atmosphere was incredible and I stick with the positive side, that is what counts," Simeone said.
Wanda Group purchased 20 percent of Atletico's shares in Jan. 2015, and has paid an unknown sum for the naming rights to the new ground. Its owner, China's second richest man Wang Jianlin, was asked about his involvement with Atletico during an interview about his general business policies at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week.
Wang's company has significant property interests in Spain, but he denied that they saw their connection with Atletico as a way of making money: "Atletico don't make us money, they burn it," he said.
Asked about his entertainment investments in United States, Wang confirmed his company were interested in buying one of the six major Hollywood studios, while adding that: "We don't interfere with the content -- I just want the profit."