Updated:05/06/2021 12:49h
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Champion of the Europa League with Villarreal, Unai emery became the new owner of the Royal Union of Irún, a group that will join the new First RFEF next season, by acquiring an important share package, around 20 percent, from the Gipuzkoan club. The technician goes on to control one of the founding teams of the Spanish League and to whom he is very emotionally attached because both his grandfather and his father will be involved in him.
The teams in the lower categories have a pull on familiar faces from professional football. The same day it was known that Toni Freixa, former manager of Barcelona, maintains contacts with the leaders of Hercules to take control of the Alicante club, Unai emery was done with the RThe Union of Irún at the end of the negotiations that had begun months ago. The Villarreal coach is already the majority shareholder of the Irundarra team and Ricardo García will cease to preside over an entity in which he had been since December 1999.
The negotiations began at the beginning of 2020, but were blocked by the pandemic, until they accelerated again after the summer and finished crystallizing this Friday, after finishing a season in which the Royal Union has managed to ascend to the First RFEF. The signing of the acquisition of the shares, just over 20% of the club, by Unai emery It was signed yesterday at a notary in Fuenterrabía.
The arrival of Unai emery (49 years old) to the Real Unión, one of the founders of the Spanish League, it is not by chance. Antonio Emery ArocenaGrandfather of the Villarreal coach, he was a goalkeeper for this team in the 1920s and won two Cup titles with him. A goalkeeper who is in the history of the League because he was the one who received the first goal of the national championship. But the coach’s ties go further because his father, Juan Emery, also defended the goal of the Royal Union. Family ties that corroborate the coach’s strong sentimental bond with the Irundarra club.
Four Cup titles
The Real Unión acquired its current name in 1915, after the merger between Racing de Irún and Sporting de Irún. Like Racing, the border team managed to lift its first Cup title (1913), which was followed by three other editions of the Spanish Championship, already with its current name, in the years 1918, 1924 and 1927. At that time, the Cup was the most important at the national level, since the League did not begin to be played until the 1928-1929 season, with the Irundarra entity as one of the founding clubs.
He played four consecutive seasons in the highest category, but since 1932 he has not played in the First Division again. Only Barcelona, Athletic, Real Madrid, Atlético, Valencia, Zaragoza and Seville have more Cup titles in their windows than Real Unión de Irún, equaled four with Spanish.
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