Real Oviedo went back to Liga, 24 years after its last appearance in the elite. His legendary captain Santi Cazorla was one of the main players in this beautiful story, just 40 years old.
This is the beautiful story of the day. 24 years later, Real Oviedo is back in the elite of Spanish football. His captain, the excellent Santi Cazorla carried his training club this season until the first division accession. The Spaniard marked a direct free kick in the semi-final of the dams against Almería before ensuring his penalty with cold blood in the final against mirands.
It was however badly embarked with a defeat a goal to zero to go but Cazorla and Oviedo reversed the steam on return home, by winning 3-1 at the end of the extensions. The meeting ended at 10 against 9! A sign of the tension and the stake that there was at the Carlos Tartiere stage on June 21.
Become to FOOLCUE Être Amputu
Santi Cazorla played in the biggest clubs, especially in Arsenal between 2012 and 2018. He was seriously injured. The Spaniard had suffered a rupture of the Achilles tendon in 2016 against Ludogorets in the Champions League.
The playmaker almost was amputated by part of his leg because of a terrible infection that started following this injury. The doctors even announced to him that he would have trouble walking for the rest of his life and that football was to be forgotten. Cazorla decided otherwise.
Back to the club after a visit to Qatar
In 2023, after three years in Al-Sadd, he decided to return to his training club with which he did not even go pro: Real Oviedo, blocked in lower divisions for more than two decades. He agrees to receive only a low salary for the love of the jersey.
The rest of the story, you know it. Santi Cazorla manages to raise Oviedo in Liga at the end of the suspense this season after a very tense final against mirands. The 40-year-old Spaniard may be a last dance in the Iberian football elite before definitively hanging up the crampons.
