Nevertheless, Racing is first

Mission accomplished. After the victory by two goals to one with a discreet Atletico Madrid and Getafe defeat against Real Madrid, Racing Santander mathematically certified before their fans to stay another year in first division. A year that will be remembered for many things, rumors, problems, change of ownership, uncertainty, bizarre stories, strange absences, etc. But that ended with the best news that has happened where football has never lost its prominence: on the lawn. Racing is where the part has secured a further year of the best of Spanish football.

Sports has not been a year of agonizing over despite having lived the quiet team's dismissal of Portugal , the coach who started the season. The Racing has flown, never come off without too much, the drop zone for almost the entire campaign. Now, with 46 points, is mathematically out of danger with just two rounds remaining in the season, and has been certified after winning three straight wins against Mallorca, Hercules and Atletico Madrid for the first time all season, but the right time.

The team achieved an improvement certainly the arrival of Marcelino to the bench. With an orderly and effective defense out on the counter, the Racing coach has achieved Asturian seven wins, three draws and four defeats, a total of 24 points in fourteen games. Twenty-two points correspond to the equipment under the orders of Portugal, which kept the Racing out of the relegation zone but that was always discussed by making it difficult to understand and never quite connecting with the crowd. Still, both Portugal and Marcelino are architects of Santander is the first club next season.

Veterans discussed and ones equally as Munitis and Colsa, Pinillos, the central Henrique Torrejón, Lacen and Diop in midfield and good recruitment as Kennedy or Schism are some of the protagonists of permanence. Individually would highlight three players have signed goalkeeper Toño becoming a great season in goal racinguista insurance. Rosenberg has not met all the expectations placed on the transfer, but no longer the team's top scorer with eight goals and His presence is always danger for Zagas contrary. Although dropper, the Swede has proved to be a very good footballer.

The latter, Giovani Dos Santos. Arrived in the winter market with doubts about the performance to be displayed in Santander, the young Mexican player has become the most destabilizing of Racing player in recent days, scoring five goals in addition to fourteen matches, seven as a starter. The club has said it intends to exercise the purchase option, which would level recruitment for next season. Note also that the quarry Betis still paying off: the last two, the central Álvaro, head in recent days, and Julian Luque, front or end their 19 years has shown in just a handful of matches a brash enormous, brazen, discretion, speed and dribbling.

The downside is composed of the club's debts and doubts that heralds the arrival of Ali Syed. The unpaid members of the previous season with eleven players, the uncertainty of not knowing for sure if the Indian businessman will stay at the club or is just a bridge between Pernia and the royal family of Bahrain, as discussed in recent weeks, as well as their absence put the club in a period of institutional instability that luckily ended up affecting not in sports. Finally appeared in the match against Atletico on the grounds that the delinquencies are due to the bank delayed the operation to protect their interests, but to the fans racinguista it costs and believe what they say after many years of questionable management.

If everything you say is true Syed Ali and his project goes ahead it veácnen the passage of time, but the important thing is to be in the top flight. A stay has held all the Betis fans and who has devoted two very dear people in Santander and have left us recently: José Sanz Tejera, known as Cioli, who saved hundreds of lives on the beaches of El Sardinero and received a deserved tribute in the match played two weeks ago against Malaga, and Severiano Ballesteros, who needs no introduction, he taught a country sport integer and Cantabria put on the map in many parts of the world by a golf ball. Going for them.

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