One more year, the Rinconada Badminton Club is in the final and one more year will face Recreativo IES La Orden, a meeting that is undoubtedly synonymous with equality and entertainment in equal parts that engages those who love badminton and those who don’t so much year after year in each final. The first part of this story will be written today, Saturday at 5:15 p.m., in the Andrés Estrada de Huelva Pavilion. And it is that the nickname of the classic is not a coincidence: it is the final that has occurred the most times in the competition, eleven.
In the previous ten, the list of winners is six finals won by Huelva by four of the corner players, one more fact that proves the equality that prevails in this duel. The illusion is maximum in San José de La Rinconada. Not only for the fact of playing another final (the nineteenth in twenty-three years) but for the feeling that it could be the season of the 12+1, the one they long for so much to continue enlarging the legend of the most successful team in Spanish badminton.
Perhaps, since 2012, the year of the last title, there has never been the feeling that exists in this season of illusion and belief, since the good numbers harvested in the regular season give license for it. Badminton Rinconada, with the title of IBERDROLA Cup champions harvested at the beginning of the season for the first time in its history, has the unwavering faith of going for the most difficult yet. The place is far from easy, because Recreativo IES La Orden is always the team to beat year after year due to its staff and its good work in the regular phase.
Both teams have exceeded their commitments in the semifinals with good results. IES La Orden achieved a 5-2 victory against CB Arjonilla while Antonio Molina’s team got a pass to the final after beating CB Oviedo 7-0. These results were key to the field factor, an important element and one that Badminton Rinconada has in favor, since it will play the second leg at Fernando Martín in front of the warmth of its fans.
