In silence, chopping a lot of stone and dedicating many hours to it, the Girona School Football Sala has not only become a reference in the Girona and Catalan scene, but is now also on the verge of taking its nose in the national categories. About to mark ten years since its foundation, the club is beginning to reap the fruits of what it has sown and on Sunday at the Palau Pavilion (5:00 p.m.) it can celebrate promotion to the Third Division (fourth national category) if sum a point against the Grups Arrahona de Sabadell. The last team from Girona to play in the category was Lloret (17-18), but Girona city hasn’t played it for a quarter of a century. “We also want to grow the city. there is theUni, the Basketball GironaGirona, hockeyand futsal didn’t want to be left behind”, he explains Joseph Buixedapresident of an organization that in recent years has gone from Segona Catalana to touching the Third Division with the tips of its fingers.
Twelve wins and a draw in the last thirteen games are to blame. Also, logically, a squad that has experienced elite players like Albert Segura, Jordi Lozano or Esteve Planaamong others, and a coach with a long career in the First Division with the Miró Martorell and Azkar Lugocom Julian Naranjo. Retired from the professional world and detached from futsal since 2017, the 62-year-old from Barcelona landed at Girona almost “without expecting it”. “I work in Girona and the president came to find me to explain that they wanted to make a change on the bench. I accepted and the truth is that everything is going very well”, he explains. Girona is not a professional club but Naranjo is very happy working there. “There is a lot of excitement and desire here. Where one does not arrive, the other arrives. Together we do everything. I am very happy and pleasantly surprised by the good work that is being done.” In this sense, the coach believes that Girona has the potential to look even higher. “If we manage to go up, Girona should not stop at Tercera. We should try to take advantage of this inertia to try to go higher in the short term. Tercera is good, but a city like Girona deserves even more,” he says. The club is “enchanted” with Naranjo, whose contract is coming to an end, but with whom the management is counting on to be the “pillar” to continue growing.
Naranjo’s ambitious thinking coincides with that of Buixeda, who is clear that “the objective” of the club “should be go up to Second B» in three years. “We must gather all the Girona talent that is around here and take advantage of what is available in the Maresme and inner Barcelona to grow even more,” he says. Girona has thirteen teams this year, which will expand next season with the integration of the Ramon Noguera Foundation and the agreement to develop women’s futsal with The Alsinas. Until now, the club had a senior and enough that from next year it will expand with a cadet, a junior and a series of extracurriculars thanks to the school.
2023-05-18 21:59:44
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