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A clash that transcends borders and with a huge media pull all over the planet, next Sunday’s Barcelona-Real Madrid (4.15pm) is the focus of the League because a classic It is not a simple game, it is always much more. There is no city, town or neighborhood in Spain in which this duel tiptoes and many modest clubs have chosen to change the usual schedule of their matches to avoid coinciding with an appointment that no football fan likes to miss. If it is already complicated to attract fans to the stadiums in the lower categories throughout the season, the competition of a duel between Catalans and whites multiplies the difficulty, although some teams, despite the risk of losing spectators, sand they resist to change their customs and on Sunday they will challenge the classic’s power of attraction by playing their matches, at least in part, at the same time. It is David’s fight against Goliath and they assume it.
The CD Cayón, now in the Second Division RFEF, is the reference club in the Cantabrian valley of the same name and on Sunday it will begin its derby against Rayo Cantabria (4:45 pm) thirty minutes after Koeman and Ancelotti’s troops start the battle at the Camp Nou. Dionisio Humara, the president, knows that some partners may miss the Fernando Astobiza to follow on television a duel of as much influence as it is a classic. But the Cayón’s problem is that of many other modest ones. “We keep the usual hours because we are a club where many footballers work on Saturdays. What we were not going to do is lose those players in such an important match for us for a Barcelona-Madrid match, we also played a lot on Sunday ”, explains the manager to this newspaper. Advancing the Sunday appointment to the morning was not possible either “because in a neighboring field they dispute their matches the lower categories and there is a risk that the balls are entering and leaving one field to another.
Recognized follower of Real Madrid, The first one who would like to enjoy the classic is him, but the president has a clear priority and strictly follows the philosophy that his club uses on social networks: «The CD Cayon it is only a village team, but for many it is the best team in the world ». And for him, of course, it is. “I’m from Real Madrid and of course I like to watch those games, but I’ve been serving as president for many years and I’ve already missed so many classics by accompanying our teams, also those in the lower categories, that I’ve gotten used to it.”
In a country where thousands and thousands of fans share passion for football between your city’s team and Real Madrid or Barcelona, for fans like Alberto Ramirez there is only one feeling, some colors. In your case those of the Gymnastic Segoviana, another of the clubs Second Division RFEF that dares to match the classic. Alberto, a romantic from the other football, will be one of those not missing in the stadium of The Albuera against Pontevedra (5:00 p.m.). «I assure you that I will be. For a gymnastic fan, the matches of other clubs, no matter how attractive they are and no matter how much interest they arouse, even if it is a Barça-Real Madrid classic, should be secondary when their team plays. The ‘Sego’ comes first», Explains this faithful of the aqueduct complex, his partner 267.
«In Segovia, a few years ago, about two thousand people went to the countryside, now there are barely a thousand. Perhaps it would be a good solution for the Federation to reserve a time slot for modest football, although it is true that it is complicated because in each city they have the habit of playing at a certain time. In Segovia, the games have been on Sundays at five in the afternoon for many years, at six on some specific occasion, but, I insist, people must support the team from their city regardless of whether there are big games on television in the United States. elite teams, “adds the fan in his conversation with ABC.
clubs like Teruel or Badalona, who had set their matches for Sunday at 5:00 p.m., have been rescheduling the schedules throughout the week to avoid a coincidence that only a few brave people have dared to assume, no one in the First RFEF, the third step of the soccer. On the next step, the Second RFEF, Racing Rioja-Gernika and Arenas-Mutilvera, both at 5:00 p.m., are the other duels that will share a time slot with him Barcelona-Real Madrid.
Obviously, the coaches and squads of those teams would like to be able to enjoy the classic, but they are due to their clubs. “It’s a shame not being able to see that match, but the priority is our own competition,” he says. Gorka Araiz, Mutilvera’s second coach Navarrese. For this coach, the classic should be played “at times when modest football does not usually compete, such as, for example, nine at night.” A proposal seconded by the president of the Cayón, although both are aware that televisions rule. “There should be a protected schedule for modest football, the greats can adapt better than us, but it is clear that televisions rule here, we all know them.”
Times have changed and football now is not like before because technology allows you to enjoy games at any time. An advantage for fans, players and coaches who do not want to fail their teams, but do not want to miss the classic either. “We may see it on the bus back home, but once you know the result beforehand, the most comfortable thing and what will surely happen is that we only see a summary or the highlights of it,” he assures Gorka Araiz. Because, Alberto Ramirez It is clear that «the fans who this Sunday prefer to stay at home or at the bar watching the classic that by going to the field to cheer on the Segoviana will be showing that, probably, the ‘Sego’ is not their team or maybe they are football fans, but not to the Segoviana. For a Segoviana fan, no matter how much another game is being played, no matter how much a classic or another great match, the first thing is his team, the rest goes to the background ». Football against football, a match between business and romanticism.
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