He has not even had a smooth linear life of the Deportivo. Almost 118 years of joy, sadness, having touched the sky and having settled in the catacombs. Of everything. The titles are what fill the showcases, but few happinesses are more complete than a promotion, either to First, to Second. Nerves, restlessness, temper in the final stretch, celebrations in the city, in Riazor, in almost any corner. Deportivo has achieved its fourteenth promotion. The tingling seems like the first day, the first times, but the A Coruña team can be considered an absolute expert.
It all started with that change that occurred in 1929 in Spanish football. From regional football, from facing each other sporadically in the Galician or Spanish championships, to measuring themselves regularly. The silver medal in Antwerp had meant a boom for its practice in the country and the logical consequence was the creation of LaLiga, the real step to a professionalism that, in fact, It was already happening. Dépor started in the Second Division, it was very difficult for them to get out of there, to taste the First division.
It was not until after the Civil war. First he stumbled in a promotion in Chamartín with Celta (1940), but the following year he was crowned in Vallecas against Murcia (1941). The wait, how the game was experienced and the subsequent celebration were anthological. There was almost a week of celebrations. In A Coruña, as you know, it never arrives.
Then came those first experiences of the so-called Deportivo elevator, which would reaffirm its name fully in the 60s. It went down to go up the following year in 1945 and 1946 and in 1947 and 1948. Two out of two. With the remembered goal of padronés Fabeiro in Ferrol and with a looser rise shortly after.
If in the There were two 40s, in the period of ten years between 1962 and 1971 He achieved it five times. Crazy, an endless carousel. From that season with Amancio and Veloso (1962) to promotion against Celta (64) and another rise in the derby with the Vigo team (66). He still had those two more appointments with glory in which Morilla (68) and Beci (71) became omnipresent with their goals. By then it had already arrived Arsenio Iglesias on the bench.
In those times promotions were seen, in part, as normal, almost by decree, without that detracting from any of the merit or joy. Those two decades between 1971 and 1991 changed everything, made everything more extreme. 20 years passed between promotion and another to First. Along the way, the A Coruña club twice dropped to the third national level (1974 and 1980) to, as was its custom then, return to the first (1975 and 1981). This time it took him longer: four years, an eternity.
Then came Stoja, the fire, the titles… The fuse was more than lit for a new generation. Another 20 years later it was time for the Oltra (2012) and Fernando Vázquez (2014) teams in a renewed version of that Sporty lift. They are moments that have forged memories, fidelities and that deserve to be lived after the miseries. Today it is the turn of a generation that has seen its team where it should not (Second B and First RFEF) and who are more faithful than ever. It’s your time.
2024-05-13 15:20:27
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