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David Silva receives a guard of honour from Real Madrid AND Real Sociedad players... as the Man City and Spain legend is given a heroes welcome back at his former LaLiga club

Real Madrid and Real Sociedad gave Manchester City and Spain legend, David Silva, an emotional guard of honour on Friday evening.

Silva was taking the ceremonial kick-off at the Reale Arena before the LaLiga clash and was greeted by players from both teams who made a tunnel for him to walk down towards the centre circle on.

The 38-year-old retired from football last year and was invited back to Sociedad as a special guest of the club for their test against Carlo Ancelotti's star-studded Madrid team.

Madrid went on to win the tight affair 1-0 as Arda Guler scored on his first start of the season to extend Los Blancos' unbeaten run in La Liga to 25 games.