A few days before starting the league, the Mirandés could barely gather eleven players to jump into the field. Today he receives in Anduva to Racing de Santander, one of the teams with which the promotion to First Division is disputed. A dream that begins to … Be available to the Spanish club.
No one had planned that the reddish team could be very close to the head of the table after playing 31 games. But the Mirandés has become the miracle of Spanish professional football, being the living demonstration that everything is not achieved with money in this sport. The team has a budget of nine million euros this season, a figure that contrasts with the 45 million of Almería. It is the third second division team that spends less. Two thirds of your income come from television rights.
The Mirandés has 3,500 partners, a true record in a city of 36,000 inhabitants. There is no club in Spain with that percentage of adhesion. In the season that began in 2012, he had to become a corporation. He could only meet his requirement because Alfredo de Miguel, his current president, and a group of businessmen covered the capital that nobody wanted to subscribe.
The club’s finances are so modest that it lacks their own squad. Every year he uses the assignments of large equipment to wear his shirt. In June, everyone returns to their origins. Athletic and Real Sociedad are the most ceded teams contributed to the Mirandés. Each season the scouts have to look for young values to incorporate into the template, which is renewed in its entirety. Vivian, Galarreta, Juanlu, Riquelme, Camello and many other players who play in First have passed through Anduva.
The Mirandés must now face the challenge of remodeling his tribune with an investment of eight million euros. It has to do it with its own resources, since the City Council has only promised to subsidize a small amount. This issue created friction between the Directive and the Municipal Corporation. It is important to note that Mirandés has ended the last seasons without deficit, something due to rigorous management and adjustment between income and expenses.
As with Real Madrid, and saving distances, Mirandés is a team that survives difficulties and usually fells in difficult times. The greatest setback of its history was in 1979 when in the last minute a goal from Langreo in Anduva avoided its promotion to Second, which had to wait more than three decades until 2010. The Mirandés descended in the late 60s to First Regional and was about to disappear in the 70s when the club could not pay or the bus for the displacements.
The identity of the team are closely linked to their courage and their fighting spirit, which connects with the spirit of a city that has gone through an industrial crisis that has lasted four decades. The Mirandés is the institution that raises the consensus of all citizens, whatever their origin, their ideology or their economic situation.
The club was born in 1927 when a group of railroads and ex -studies of the Holy Hearts gathered in a dance hall to found the team. The first games were played in the old Krone Campo, but soon moved to the lot of Station Street. Anduva was built in 1949 with a cost of 600,000 pesetas.
Anduva was then a neighborhood of workshops, farms and windmills, with a dirt road without asphalting. It was played in winter at half past three in the afternoon. I remember that team of the 60s with legendary players such as Aznar, Palix, ElCoro, Pangu, Urruchi, Azcona, Solaun and Benito, who faced teams from the Basque Group of Third Division. Azkoyen, Touring and Chantrea were some of the rivals that Saber Anduva.
I was born in the neighborhood of La Perea where everyone worked on the railroad and was a follower of the Mirandés. My first memories are linked to kicking a ball in Anduva while the players trained. On Sundays I put me behind the northern goal, next to the high popcos, to see the games.
Soccer then had a wild character that is unacceptable today. I say it because I remember several dozen fans waiting for the exit of the referee to throw the Ebro river. Fortunately, the Civil Guard arrived before.
I carry in my heart the colors of the Mirandés since, as the classic says, the true homeland is childhood. This afternoon I will encourage the reds from the stands with the illusion that this year the team will rise to Primera. Sometimes, dreams come true, even if it seems impossible.
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