«How nice it is to be from Deportiva Minera. “Let no one wake us up from this dream!” they point out from the entity. Representative of the small town of Llano del Beal, which with less than 1,500 inhabitants is one of the districts of Cartagena, the Mining Sports has become one of the revelation teams of this season. Champion last season in the Murcia Third Division group, the team José Pérez Veiga ‘Popi’ won the derby against La Unión on Sunday (3-1) and is the current leader of the Group IV of Second Federation in the year of its release. “We have our feet on the ground, we have to keep working because we want more,” the coach warned after that victory.
“We are really enjoying the journey competing in this Second Federation, the key to the success of a humble team like ours is that we are a family that is growing day by day,” he explains. Popi in conversation with ABC. “The players have managed to make a great group, they all work together, they believe in an idea and they are all working for and for Deportiva Minera,” he adds.
Founded in 1949, Deportiva Minera, with barely 350 membersenjoy the sweetest moment in your history. Not only because of the leadership in the League, also because it counts the days until its debut in the King’s Cupin which he will debut on October 31 at the Tudelano field. A dream for a team that last season managed to make the leap to the national category for the first time since its birth. A push from the hand of José Blaya Gómezwho in March 2023 became the new head of the club, replacing Bienvenido Gallego, currently honorary president of the team.
The arrival of Blaya, senior patron of the San Pedro del Pinatar Fish Guild and president of the Local Fishing and Aquaculture Action Group of the Region of Murcia (Galpemur), has transformed Deportiva Minera. A team that promoted to Third division in the 2010-2011 season and since then had achieved the goal of permanence by managing one of the most humble budgets in the category.
A single defeat
The presence of the businessman from Cartagena, whose full name can be read on the front of the team, has been an economic boost for the creation of a squad that is surprising and in which only six of the players who achieved promotion remain: Javi Vera , Julio Algar, Fran Molina, Domi, Feliciano and Cristhian Britos. The balance in their eight League games confirms it: five wins, two draws and only one defeat allow them to look in the rearview mirror of the classification at historical teams such as Linares, Balompédica Linense, Orihuela or San Fernando. “Being able to compete against greats in the category, historical ones such as Linares, La Balona, San Fernando, UCAM Murcia or Águilas, makes us feel enormous pride,” highlights Popi. «We are a team that knows what we are playing. “No matter what happens, on whatever field, we are practicing our game,” said striker Arturo, on Sunday after the victory in the derby against La Unión, as one of the keys to this success.
In the locker room and the stands of the Ángel Celdrán stadium From El Llano del Beal there is now excitement for a team that has become the pride of a district of barely 1,500 inhabitants. “Representing this small municipality and spreading its name throughout Spain is another reason for pride for us,” the coach of Deportiva Minera, a team that never stops dreaming game by game, acknowledges to this newspaper.
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