Cloudy in Santander

Writing about Racing is increasingly difficult. I want to focus on the purely sporting discuss possible signings ilusionantes , the difficulty of the change of status or promotion prospects of the team, but the club's sporting reality today seems subject and dependent on administrative and social reality in the that is wrapped Santander team, and in the place where you would have to assume role the coach and the players occupy headlines, for some time, a number of presidents that have led to Racing Santander to a risk and no longer derives by relegation to the second division, the fact that a team like the Highlander is not new or surprising, but the way in which the club is managed, to call it somehow, led by the disorder in all areas: sporting, economic and social.

Being racinguista is knowing that hardly achieve those successes that lead a team to glory and take cover week after week, but not the deeds are smaller and less celebrated triumphs. That is why in the Sardinero are remembered as if they were titles that promote promotion to first in the season 92/93 against Espanyol, the magnificent year Irureta team, the unforgettable 5-0 Barcelona Cruyff years suffering to the last breath with a happy ending thanks to one big racinguismo as Nando Yosu , the ascent to first in 2002 with Setién on the bench or the historic qualification for the Cup UEFA inexplicably owe them that have plunged the club into the unpleasant situation.

For Santander have not gone gold balls or FIFA World Players, at least not wearing the shirt of Racing but have been proud to see a few green treading Sardinero and hopefully see you again, but remember with equal admiration names like Ceballos, Radchenko, Popov, Zygmantovich, Merino, Pablo Alfaro, Stephen Torre, Luis Fernandez, Mutiu, Jaime Correa, Arzeno, Benayoun, Moratón, Javi Guerrero, Colsa, Salva, Victor, Amavisca, Aouate, Pinillos, Munitis (representative of a quarry than ever has failed to give players), Tchité, Zigic and many others whose list I would post for a few more. So many names and many games with each of them associated with memories, as heard on the radio the news of the promotion or to see a friend, Santander and Barcelona, ​​not sure if carried in a shirt commemorating the day of that 5 - 0, which is why it hurts even more to see in what has become the entity Betis.

It is difficult to explain how a team like Racing, which does nothing lived the best moments of your story (ignoring that season 30/31 in which the league is not won by one point) with the most consecutive seasons in the first, qualified for European competition for the first time or twice reaching the semi-finals of Copa del Rey, has been seen in such a short space of time in this delicate situation, taking into account also the worrisome economic scenario when they have taken place in recent years sales as juicy as those of Zigic, Marcano or Garay (I can not count the Channel as it was not renewed on time and practically had to give it away to Real Madrid, he decided to pay a figure when he could not have).

Racing has definitely been one of the elite clubs (defined as those who play or have played in the top flight recently) that have been hardest hit in recent years by the arrival of the Spanish Corporations football in which characters of dubious credibility and uncertain intentions have taken control of historical clubs. At Santander, in addition, the circus has been possible, with the arrival of suspected successful entrepreneurs who were to take the club to the highest levels and then disappeared from the map wrapped in countless controversies.

This year, in all the negative happened in the club, the situation would not have to paint so bad: the Racing club is the second largest budget in the silver category with 14 million and one of the teams with more name of Liga Adelante: well know in Marca TV, which has televised games and a few mountain club. A situation like that and other emblematic of Spanish football clubs as the Oviedo living very difficult days. However, the grotesque has continued and a few days before the start of the season there was a coaching change by contractual issues (Unzué had been hired with little experience on the bench and who said he had come to the club by cronyism) , and now the team roams the second division, two points from relegation with poor results and a team that does not play speculative anything protagonist infumables party.

Concern grows gradually between the fans and racinguista and long remembered in cases of Teka Cantabria and the Cantabria Lobos: the first became the best handball team in Europe and the second a worthy basketball club that reached military in the ACB . None of them there now, and worry that the same thing will happen Racing is evident. And all this in a few months the club meets no less than one hundred years of history in what should be a feast for the racinguismo.