2023-06-01 19:50:02
Amorebieta and Racing de Ferrol will walk hand in hand next season in the Second Division after having earned direct promotion in a deserved way and following, in a way, similar trajectories throughout this campaign. Both have had to wait practically until the horn to celebrate their return to the second rung of Spanish football. The blues with the tie in Lezama and the Galicians with a little more suffering, since for several minutes they saw how Alcorcón surpassed them in the table on the last day. With the first goal accomplished, both are now looking to round off the season by winning the title of First Federation Champion, which also includes entering the second round of the Copa del Rey as an extra prize.
At a sporting level, the similarities between both squads are several. The main one is that they are very possibly teams that do not have the best players in the category in their ranks, but they have known how to put together a great team whose collective work has taken them to the top. In the case of the Galician team, the construction of the block was not as exaggerated as that of the zornotzarras, since they kept a good part of the squad from the previous year. A season in which they also reached the play-offs for promotion to Second Division, although Nástic left them by the wayside in the semifinals.
This continuity allowed the people of Ferrol to start the season brilliantly, with seven wins and two draws in the first nine days, in which they already presented their credentials to everything. Just the opposite of Amorebieta, at that time still in full reconstruction and occupying relegation positions. However, from then until the end of the first lap, Racing went into a tailspin and chained a considerable series of defeats that, despite everything, never brought them down from sixth place. The second round of Vizcaya and Ferrol has been to frame. Almost perfect. A winning inertia that has led them to this final of champions.
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In the ranks of Amorebieta’s next rival there are very recognizable names, many of them with a past in higher categories. Starting with his coach, Cristóbal Parralo, who has occupied benches such as Deportivo in First Division, or Alcorcón, Racing de Santander or Girona in Second Division. In green, the figures of the Argentine goalkeeper Gazzaniga stand out, second in the ‘zamora’ ranking this season with a coefficient of 0.65 goals per game; Manu Justo, his main gunner with 12 goals; o Carlos Vicente, the player who has distributed the most assists in the category (12), in addition to scoring eight goals.
Without forgetting names like Héber Pena, Joselu or Chacón from Ferrol, who have also accumulated five notches on their revolver this season. In the Galician ranks there is also the central defender Jon García, trained in Lezama and with a past in Bilbao Athletic, Sestao River, Racing de Santander or Ponferradina. The man from Bilbao, who has also scored twice, has been in charge of answering many questions these days in the Galician booth, most of them referring to Urritxe.
economic muscle
The parallels between the two clubs disappear at the stroke of a pen at a structural level, starting with the social mass itself. From the barely a thousand members of the Amorebieta to the more than 3,500 of the Coruña team. Not to mention the sports facilities themselves. The ancient Zornotzarra stadium, the scene this Saturday of the first leg of that champions’ final, can barely accommodate 1,400 fans. A Malata, on the other hand, has a capacity of more than twelve thousand seats. This is so because Racing de Ferrol is a classic in the Second Division, in which they played for the last time in 2008 and in which they have recorded 34 participations in their history.
Its president and largest shareholder is Ignacio Rivera, owner of Estrella Galicia, a brand dedicated to Galician sports. But for Rivera Racing is his right eye. His great objective when he landed at the Ferrol club back in 2017, with the team recently relegated to the Third Division, was to return him to professional football, something that he has finally achieved.
For this, his pulse has not trembled when it comes to injecting capital even from his own pocket to alleviate the losses that he has been dragging in recent seasons. The previous course exceeded one million euros, an amount similar to that expected for this season that he is about to finish. Racing de Ferrol’s budget is around 3.7 million euros, almost half a million more than Amorebieta. Although the big difference is in spending on the sports field, which amounts to almost 2.7 million. An amount to which should be added the million euros that Ignacio Rivera has given to the squad as a bonus for getting promoted.
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