Of the three times that Mágico González faced the Unión Deportiva Las Palmas wearing the Cádiz shirt, today’s rival of the insular team, there was one, the first of them, in which the Salvadoran scored a great goal in the Insular and that was hidden 46 years. The Cádiz team rescued it from his archive on April 19, 2023 and showed it to the world. Mágico’s unprecedented goal in a match that was very marked.
«There is another player as big or bigger than Pelé and me, he is Salvadoran and plays in Cádiz: Jorge González, a phenomenon. He is better. “I come from planet Earth and he comes from another galaxy,” this is how Diego Maradona referred to Mágico, the irreverent playmaker who played for Cádiz, precisely because of a prank by Pelusa in 1984 when both of them coincided at Barça doing the preseason and the culés They rejected the signing of the Central American so that he would end up in the south of the peninsula.
With this reverence of what is considered by the vast majority of mortals to be the best player in the history of football, one can understand the impact that Mágico González had in the 1980s. An irreverent man who left a trace that he could have done more than have wanted
One of those chosen ones who, in the process of lacing up his boots before the games, decided that he was going to leave an exhibition for those who had paid a ticket to enjoy some of his dribbles or occurrences.
Just what he felt inside on April 19, 1987 when the man from El Salvador He was inside the defunct Insular Stadium to face Las Palmas for the first time in the three occasions he faced the yellow team in his career – two on the Island.
Both teams were playing for permanence in a championship that was divided into three groups. One for the league title, another for a League Cup and the last for relegation. It was matchday 36 and there were eight more dates left for the conclusion of the tournament.
Félix Marrero, witness
Félix Marrero, one of those present at that match, remembers that decision as one of the factors that upset Las Palmas. “We had an irregular year, but we beat Cádiz and we were calmer,” adds the midfielder who is the fifth player with the most appearances in the UD shirt.
“We had Mayé, Felipe, Julio Durán, Juanito and a good couple up top with Narciso and Koke,” says Félix, about Contreras, author of the 1-0 and without forgetting Chinea, who made it 2-1.
And if we had to win in the 86th minute, it was because Mágico left his mark with a great goal moments before the break was called. A pass between the defense and the fleeting incursion of the Salvadoran like a snake between Juanito and Mayé, without the nerves being synonymous with his temperament and allowing him to shoot Pérez. A draw in the Insular and a cry from the player who had to be controlled.
Despite the beauty of the goal and having been captured by the television cameras present at the Ciudad Jardín venue, it had to be sent to Spanish Television or simply in the weekly summaries it was not considered that it had to be broadcast.
Those same cameras that had recorded Cádiz’s clothing that night was blue with a yellow stripe that many remembered as a Boca Juniors style.
A great goal that was not enjoyed in the summaries of the time and that only those present in the Stadium kept in their memory until April 19 of this year, when Cádiz rescued it from their archives to show it to LaLiga fans and Mágico himself, who lives his days peacefully in El Salvador, although he has not commented on the goal in question.
Even so, according to Félix, that action by Mágico was the only thing he did in the game. Almost summing up what his career was like. He spread his magic for a while and hid. “It was not a very outstanding match for Mágico, he was well tied up by the area in which he moved and he could not do much more even though he was very good,” says the historic meciocentro.
2023-12-17 00:52:57
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