Manolo Lucena, the great survivor Nazari

Few players will be able to boast, because that is clearly the word-play next season in the First Division and make the club they love. Yes, there will be leading a life as part of the team, which has been climbing his quarry to make the jump to the first team. This case could be to a kid who moves from youth to the subsidiary, settled in the third division or II B, and then the big step up to the team mother. The will also have to take a decade wearing the colors of the same institution and have become 'theirs', but for Manolo Lucena (18/11/1982) is a true case of survival in an entity, to suffer with it, and go play in the fields of mud, locked into the locker room not to charge to play in the top flight of Spanish football.

Is going to live Manolo Lucena, a native of Granada and team captain who has seen rise from the ashes and with whom he shared a now growth will remain a part. Because usually when a team is made up of a monumental status in the locker room cleaning in which, on many occasions, only just leaving the utillero after that wonderful climb. He leaves much of the pineapple got a dream and instead become players sometimes do not feel or suffer and that the first change, as given go wrong is long.

But at the heart of Granada will enable him to follow the evolution that started since their arrival, almost ten years ago, but stopped once. After two years in the whole Third Nazari, left the Marine Luanco of the Second B. His good performances caught the attention of Sporting, and in the Second, where just a few minutes and eventually enjoyed coming home. Since the 2005/2006 season with the 'Great' in Third, this humble plant was becoming important in the team, while claiming, along with his companions, the payment of their salaries in hard times for the Andalusian box. This season would amount to Segunda B Paco Sanz (Lorenzo's son) as president and after the year before an own goal itself Quintanar Lucena before the rise avoid becoming one of the worst memories of the player. It was four years in the Bronze category, until the grain was placed in the hands of Gino Pozzo and his ambition, which ended the long-awaited ascent to League Two.

Despite the expected fro of comings and goings, Lucena continued to enjoy the club and for Fabri, and more than 250 games behind defending the colors red and white, the recently concluded was that since he arrived more than enjoyed. Maybe not both parties, but in terms of results. His experience is a guarantee and both the coaching staff and the directors know it. The only template Granada merited further with a team that came in third today and enjoy in First . Renewed for two seasons to go to sleep in a month's Cármenes claiming that she had to assume, again in the same stadium, which can be any prouder of Granada he defended the shield of Granada. Now, like him among the greats.

In NDF | The Football Granada 'Alhambra' in First
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