The green tide returned to gather en masse. where he could In the absence of being able to experience the conquest of a new title in the Carpena composer temple, he managed to pack establishments such as Le Grand Café, specifically in the one located next to the Guadalmedina river, more than 500 fans and supporters of Unicaja gathered.
“Is incredible. A night for history. Just like 18 years ago, living it from Malaga, but as if we were with the team in the final”, recounted one of the oldest fans at Le Grand Café, María Luisa Pérez. Surrounded by several relatives, she acknowledged that the third quarter “was hard.” But that faith in Navarro’s men was never lost: «We have a coach who is going to mark an era», he alluded while everyone chanted the name of the man from Vitoria.
Ibon Navarro was one of the most acclaimed protagonists, because in the last quarter he knew how to fit the pieces and thus be able to unsettle a rival of the stature of Lenovo Tenerife. Because if it was difficult to defeat Barcelona and Real Madrid, the islanders had just won a new intercontinental title.
“We are going to have a quick dinner and we are going to the airport. Tomorrow we will have to go to work almost without sleep, like at a fair, “said Luis Ortiz. He was one of the many fans «with Málaga like this I have decided this year to change football for basketball. I am tired of suffering, although last year was also a disaster for Unicaja. Who was going to tell us this », he clarified.
The compositor fans had gathered in places like Le Grand Café itself an hour before the duel. You had to take a preferential place, enlivened by the live broadcast that the establishment provided with domestic locution and great detail about the development of the final.
And it is that the impossibility of enjoying the outcome of this Copa del Rey at the Carpena It made many businessmen manage to facilitate the broadcast, with giant screens installed for the occasion and the expansion of terraces and rooms usually dedicated to offering lunches or dinners.
Numerous cafeterias were also set up in hotels and other accommodation. The occasion deserved it. It was about living like never before the fever of a tide that this year smiles again, to enjoy one of the heaviest titles on the basketball planet.
In the specific development of the match, the fans gathered at Le Grand Café were during many phases quite critical of the permissiveness of the referees when calling fouls favorable to Unicaja. Then they went back to chanting like never before the names of Brizuela the one of Alberto Diaz. But the role of Carter, finally chosen as MVP, was also underlined.
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“There is no sleep here tonight,” said one of the young students who was leaving Le Grand Café this Sunday, along with the rest of her group of followers, on her way to the airport. “We want you to know what we feel. We have made history. Because we have killed two of the best teams in the world and the icing on the cake has been this final», indicated Candela Ruiz herself.
An intense day is also expected for this Monday, with an agenda in which to entertain the players of the compositor staff. “We will be with them wherever they go. Even if you have to lose hours of study. I couldn’t experience the other Copa del Rey and I don’t want to miss anything», the compositor follower finished as soon as she finished chanting «champions, champions, champions». More than 500 throats did it in the same enclave, a short distance from the nerve center of the city.
