2023-11-13 20:23:42
David Cubillas (Castellón de la Plana, 1990) was the great protagonist of the qualifying round play off against Castellón. He scored the goal that left Deportivo in the gutter in a match marked by the unfortunate performance of Ian Mackay. This week he will reunite with the blue and white team in the ranks of the modest Tarazona, where he ended up last summer. After an ephemeral passage through Factory in the 2011-12 season He does not forget a club or a city that left their mark on him.
What has it been like to change the team of your life for Tarazona?
Good. It’s totally different. I wanted to take off that backpack and the burden of being a person from Castellón and play just for enjoyment. Fall in love with sport again. It is a totally different context, but also very beautiful.
Smile Davo and breathe Dépor
Did that backpack of playing for your city’s team weigh more on you than necessary?
It’s not that it bothered me, because I spent the seven best years of my life in Castellón, but it is true that being from there and so on, you don’t experience it in the same way. You don’t experience football in the same way, it weighs much more on you. When you lose, you don’t want to leave the house and when you win, it’s too ecstatic. I wanted to find that average grade and return to just enjoying sports.
Does it wear off that pressure that can also exist in Dépor?
Yes, at the end of the day Castellón and Dépor are similar places. For me, being from there, from Castellón, much more so and the pressure wears you down, although I wouldn’t change what I experienced there for anything. I am also old and I am getting older and both the club and I decided that the best thing was a change of scenery now and then if in the future it could be to meet again.
Idiakez and the changing goal
What is it like to go from that to a modest project?
It is a totally different world in terms of media, but at the end of the day this is also football. Tarazona is a very small, very humble city, and every match in Primera RFEF is a prize. This week we have opened the field once and for all, we haven’t played at our house for three months and the city is overwhelmed. It’s all very humble, but we are competing, although it is true that we are missing points in the box based on feelings.
And what is it like to receive Dépor in these circumstances? It’s not that Deportivo has started well either…
They have not started as well as they were supposed to, but for us it is a reward. Against Dépor things are super difficult. You never know when it’s a good time to host Deportivo. It comes from winning against SD Logroñés, but also from a painful defeat in Irún. You never know if in the first game away from home we are going to pay the price. Dépor’s squad is spectacular and in the end it will be on top one hundred percent for sure, but it is what we have been talking about all these years. Maybe the name alone didn’t work for us in Castellón, too.
Do you think that weighs on Deportivo, having to live with the pressure of always winning?
Maybe, I don’t know. At the end of the day, the players he has are very good, but he also had them last year and the year before. Many keys have to be touched, many stars have to come together for it to truly be the year. I hope that, starting next weekend, it will be the year because I keep a very special piece in my heart for Dépor. I hope it is Deportivo’s last year in Primera RFEF, because it has all the means to achieve promotion.
2-1 | Millene and ADT maintain the lead in an afternoon to remember
He was one of the great protagonists of last season’s play off tie. How did he experience that crazy afternoon?
I would possibly say that if it is not the top 1 of my football career, it is very close. I saw the game won at the beginning, then I saw it lost, then won again… Many things happened in the same game. It was expensive for us, but it was a game in which anything could have happened. We could not have reached extra time in favor of Dépor, we could not have reached it in favor of Castellón and in that toss-up it came out in our favor.
You didn’t meet Ian Mackay at the Fabril, did you speak to him after that?
I didn’t agree, he is a little older than me. I spoke with him because I know him, we have faced each other many times when he was in Sabadell and so on. These are situations that the footballer experiences at his maximum and it is clear that he made a mistake, he knows it and admitted it, but I think that everything that Mackay has given to Dépor is beyond doubt. We all make mistakes, I have made mistakes thousands of times in Castellón, what happens is that on an afternoon like that, what we were each risking with, with that magnitude, is a little more marked. I think that Dépor has a lot to thank Mackay and Mackay has to thank Dépor, from there he is rising from that mistake.
A Coruña shows that women’s football is of interest
They had promotion to Second really close later in the final against Alcorcón…
The truth is that if. At half-time in the second leg I thought we had it, because the feelings were very good, but this is football. In ten minutes, with two flashes of light, they were ahead of us. Whether Dépor, Alcorcón or Castellón, any of the three that had gone up, would have deserved it because the three of us had a great play off. To our bad luck and Dépor’s bad luck, the one that ended up taking him was Alcorcón.
He was only at Fabril for one year, but he always speaks fondly of the club and the city. Did they mark you that much?
The first time I left home was to go to A Coruña. She was 21 years old, or just turned 22. She lived alone next to the O Burgo estuary. They are very nice memories. I spent only one year there, the year of promotion with Oltra, I was with the first team several times and I made my debut in preseason. It will be a special game to see those colors again. It was the first time I went out from home and it had a big impact on me. The people influenced me a lot, the city influenced me a lot and the club influenced me a lot. It makes me a little sad because some of my words before the last play-off game to motivate my team were misinterpreted last year. I didn’t want to disrespect Dépor or anything like that, I had a spectacular year there. I tried to motivate mine and that’s it. If it made anyone feel bad, I apologize from here.
23 | Fabril misses a crazy game
You have also not hidden that your time with Óscar Cano had an impact on your career. Have you talked to him about your time at Dépor? Why do you think he didn’t do well here?
I have a lot of relationship with him. It’s true that he was unlucky. He kept the team in the play off and maybe if he had left them in the play off it would have been different, I don’t know. He didn’t happen in A Coruña, but he changed my life as a footballer, because he is a coach who immerses you and knows a lot about football. You are amazed when you hear him speak, but everything he did well in Castellón was different there.
This year Castellón is thrown into a very complicated group, what is it like working with an American owner like Haralabos Voulgaris? They paint it a bit like the movie ‘Moneyball’…
(Laughs) He is a lot about numbers, big data, but he is a tremendously winning person, very optimistic. If he is doing what he is doing in Castellón it is because he sees a lot of potential and is not here to waste time. I have a close relationship with him. Last year he was 45 minutes away and this year he will not give up in his efforts to take Castellón to professional football.
#play #match #expensive #Castellón #happened