In just over four years I've been translating into Football Notes my thoughts on this insanity called football, just remember talking a chance of Gimnastic Tarragona. It was in the beginning, back in 2007 when I spent a few lines to the oldest club in Spain (was created on March 1, 1886 and this year will blow the 125 candles from birth). By then, the so-called Tarraco during the Roman Empire, enjoying his team in the top flight of Spanish football after an unimaginable rise early the previous year and natural pass through the fields intempestades II B above. That year began with Luis Cesar on the bench and with a win against Espanyol at Montjuïc, but as if it were a house of cards, or simply a rookie class that could pressure him, collapsed with the during the conference. His replacement, Paco Flores, and subsequent winter reinforcements, the theme of which was the aforementioned article , could not avoid relegation and the dream of returning to first was as ephemeral as the sometimes cruel eternal way the silver division.
Four years after the best teams set foot on the Nou stadium, the bleachers were filled to overflowing, that thousands of fans make partner ... the situation is quite different. Now the rivals are different. Perhaps lack of glitz in her name, but left on the lawn to the soul. The inflow to the stadium has fallen so unexpected, becoming axiomatic that relegation is synonymous with losing followers. Only the faithful adorn their elastic grana and shield attached to the chest, arm around his neck scarf and scream like possessed when they do not like football or arbitrator in office is what your heart says if he had whistled. The current situation resembles the brief but intense 2007. However, the level is different and here, which makes the payment. Since then, Luis Cesar took the reins earlier this season, hoping to rejuvenate old laurels, make a clean slate after that dismissal on First and inexperienced, why not to believe in dreams. His second outing, but was not as bright as its first stage. And it happened to be the coach who ascended to Nastic in 2006 to be the bottom side of second left him in 2010. As expected, the board dismissed him Tarragona last December.
Needless to say, if already in First are many entities have had to buckle in regard to the economic lot in savings Second, with few exceptions, is what has prevailed in many sets with even more modest modest budget . In Tarragona the cut compared to last year, which also went all the way sports distress has been considerable and so it went from having demonstrated and experienced players such as Jose Mari or Campano, who packed their bags in June, reinforced with youth who want to grow as a project tied with tweezers but certainly encouraging. The landscape, however, color has been lost over the months, becoming the march of Luis Cesar in the starting point for the exit of the pit. His successor, Joan Carles Oliva, a coach whose name started ringing around here when Piterman pulled the strings of Alaves and Oliva was one of them until they are planted, not between the media and gave the fans the confidence to take set the hook with too many gas leaks that could lead to an explosion with the stench of Second B.
In his first game, the penultimate before the Christmas holidays, it was clear that the problem was not on the bench, but on the green. Gimnastic Granada fell by 6-1 with a release of those who might not remember. Then there would be a goalless draw against Recreativo that despite serving to clean the image of the previous stake, not invited, in fact, to believe in miracles. So, the directors realized that the staff walked decompensated and what brought him no Luis Cesar in summer, have been bringing in the last days Oliva. Still, last week at home against Valladolid, the grana added their second win of the season at the Nou Stadium (third along the course) after four months without it. They did it for the minimum Peoldid. The distance from the first not to lose could have been expanded to nine points, in addition to the moral blow that would have meant. However, the party pulled out to add three valuable points. On Saturday, against Albacete and home, with reinforcements and confirmed Viguera (Real Sociedad) and Bergantiños (Granada / Sport) on the bench, did Gimnastic so far seemed impossible to win his second straight game with a goal, to make matters worse, striker Rioja, which came in the second half and signed with a beautiful mackerel visitor victory with three minutes remaining.
Conditions is not invited to go out and build castles in the air, for salvation, in the worst case (depending on what the Recreativo on Sunday against Villarreal B), will remain at three points, but taking into that the next two days the picture is played Tarragona chestnuts at home, at his age and with an unprecedented run so far is not negligible believe that something good, which is now, it can happen. Because it sounds implausible, but if Gimnastic is able to add their next six points can go down fighting not to get into that joint accumulation of aspiring to the highest level. This season is a space reserved for promotion to fight for the third, fourth, fifth and sixth-placed in a play-off. Given that neither the branch of Barcelona (sixth) and the Villarreal (seventh) are eligible because they say the rules to dispute it, would be the eighth, in this case the Numancia, who would dispute with the other three teams qualifying. And if you stop to consider the classification realizes that Soria have 27 points, while the first one to say goodbye to the Liga Adelante (now the Recre), has 19. That is, eight points off that, translated, means the failure or success can go from fighting for a goal to strive, without eating or drinking, with an entirely opposite. For now, in Tarragona, breathe and enjoy your cherished time with the idea of permanence, although apparently seen, we can not rule out any option. Will to dream ...
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