The visit that Eibar will carry out on Monday (7.30 pm) to Alcoraz de Huesca, the second of the season after the day … Inaugural in Malaga (1-1), it is a crossing of intertwined stories between two clubs that share much more than the Barça color of their first equipment.
In fact, the links that resemble both entities go further from the fact that the ex -rags Óscar Sielva, Sergi Enrich and Álvaro Carrillo, while in the Armeras ranks, Jair Amador and Javi Martínez bind a more or less recent past in the Aragonese team.
The similarities between the two rivals that face their fifth consecutive season in the second category after having descended together at the end of the 20-21 course, begin from the way both were created, since if the Eibar was born in 1940 fruit of a fusion between the Eibarresa Sports Union and the Gallo Sports Club, the SD Huesca emerged in 1960 of the Alliance formed between the sports club Huesca, who was champion of Spain from fans in 1931 and his heir, the Huesca Sports Union
As the Guipuzcoans cost sweat, blood and countless promotions to reach the category of silver, the Oscenses also had to travel a path full of thorns to celebrate their return to second in 2008, 48 years after their last time.
Interestingly, although his debut in the then called League forward took place as a local against Castellón, the first victory in the category got it against Eibar (2-0) on the third day in Alcoraz.
Crossroad
Forced to complete its obligatory conversion to Sociedad Anónima Deportiva in August 2009, the Huesca managed to settle in the second category, until they returned to find their bones in Second B precisely that historical 2013 in which the Eibar worked the miracle of climbing to first only one year after having said goodbye to their four seasons in the ‘purgatory’ of the bronze division.
But the Aragonese squad did not sank either after a first tentative failed to return from the hand of Pablo Alfaro, and two years after having fallen from the second step of state football, El Huesca recovered his place to proclaim himself for the first time champion of his group in Second Division B and overcome three qualifiers that awarded him the award.
But just as Eibar surprised the world by standing in the elite with its brand new rise in 2013, five years later Huesca also touched the glory on May 21, 2018.
Destiny wanted the first match of the San Jorge Cross in Primera to take place in Ipurua against Eibar, which was imposed by a 1-2 that was forever recorded in its history.
Far from achieving the stability that Eibar achieved until accumulating seven years in Primera that marked an era, the Aragonese went down at the end of that same campaign, coincidentally by Eibar and, although the following year they rose again as champion of the category, in May 2021 they found their bones in second next to Eibar, so the two teams have passed the last four years without being able to meet their goal of returning to the top.
To achieve this, the Oscense club has been made with the services of Francisco Portillo, who has earned the nickname of ‘King of the Ascent’, after having climbed with Betis, Getafe, Almería, Leganés and, recently, the Oviedo, which has come after being free this summer. The Malaga veteran comes hungry and willing to play if his new coach considers it convenient.
Jair Amador points
Jair Amador also wants to add to the Armera expedition that will travel to Huesca. The Caboverdiano has taken a step forward and, like Bautista, has also trained hard with the group.
