2023-05-30 00:05:55
The leagues are dying and the champions shine, the usual suspects, almost always the same nobility that monopolizes the titles at the end of the season. Guardiola’s Manchester City, Bayern Munich, PSG, Barcelona… There have been few striking novelties in the major European competitions except for that wonderful fable written by Napoli, directed by Spalletti and executed by Osimhen y Kvaratskheliaproud winners of Vesuvius after 33 years of drought.
But the girl from the 22-23 campaign has been in minimalist football, in the suburbs, in those competitions that make people fall in love Maldini but that they are non-existent for the rest of the mortals. Up to seven first-time champions (nine if those who still hold the title from last season are taken into account, since not all leagues have finished) have flourished in recent months.
It is undoubtedly the narrative of the Rakow Czestochowa Polish the one that has most excited the European fans. The club founded in 1921 was once one of the most famous emblems of the Slavic country, but in the nineties, like so many others, it went bankrupt and disappeared. A heartbreaking event for a preteen named Michal Swierczewski, who saw how the club of his love disintegrated. His life continued, he graduated in computer engineering and, with a group of friends, in true Steve Jobs style, founded a computer company.
Swierczewski would end up becoming the owner of the most powerful technology company in Poland (X-Kom) and, once at the top, his childhood refloated. In 2014 he bought what was left of Raków and nine years later, he made it champion. “If it weren’t for my club I would be much richer,” the billionaire joked after the feat.
centennial clubs
He Swift Hesperange The Luxembourger has also earned the title of league champion for the first time. A centennial club (1916) that has the honor of having among its ranks one of the most lethal artillerymen in Europe: he is French, his name is Rayan Philippe and gives a goal or an assist every 82 minutes.
His fans are as proud as those of the Larne Northern Ireland, created in the British camps during the occupation of the north of the island at the end of the 19th century, or those of the FC Farul Constanta, whose coach and president are former Madrid and Barça player Gheorghe Hagi. Both winners on the last day.
FC Struga (Macedonia), Athletic Club of Escaldes (Andorra) and the Aris Limassol (Cyprus), together with the Valmiera FC Latvian and the BK Häcken Swedish (these last two are playing to defend the title in the last few games) make up this suicidal group, in which nobody believed, but which they have finally managed to break into routine.
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