2023-12-22 10:51:48
Friday, December 22, 2023, 09:51
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Yesterday, December 21, marked the 40th anniversary of what until 2010 was considered the greatest feat of Spanish football. The Spanish National Team, led by Manolo Sarabia and Andoni Goikoetxea among others, received Malta in Seville with one objective in mind: to score a historic victory of at least eleven goals that would qualify for the 1984 Euro Cup.
They achieved it with a historic second half and would end up reaching the final of the championship, where they lost to the host. Santillana scored four goals, Poli Rincón another four, Maceda scored two and Manu Sarabia one, but it was Señor’s goal, the last, that grabbed all the covers.
The voice that recounted that feat still lingers forty years later. From time to time you hear it on television but whoever did not enjoy the second biggest win in the history of La Roja -yes, there was a bigger one in 1933 (13-0)- has the Internet to remember that triumph and a José Ángel de the House (Los Cerralbos, 1950), excited and with a broken voice when singing the goal that qualified for the French Euro Cup. «Lord, Lordrrrr, goal from Señoorrr, goal from Señoorrr.»
The voice of 12-1 to Malta received a well-deserved tribute yesterday at the RFEF headquarters in Las Rozas. The former players of that squad were celebrating the 40th anniversary of the clash and De la Casa was one of the great guests. He entered the assembly hall accompanied by his son and placed himself in the center of the former internationals. He was given the microphone and said some beautiful words that moved everyone present: “I have broadcast 138 matches of the senior National Team, but he would change all of them to have played a single minute with the team.”
De la Casa had the help of Manolo Sarabia, who was at his side and held the microphone while the narrator addressed the audience. He suffers from Parkinson’s, a disease that is gradually gaining ground: “I take 18 pills a day,” he revealed to Relief in a recent interview.
The famous narrator went down in the history of Spanish football that day in 1983. It was the first big day of that generation that almost won the European Cup six months later when they lost the final against France.
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