The hangover from the Spanish Super Cup left images for posterity. Players who slept a little more than four hours woke up with their heads shaved, rheumatisms stuck to them and the background music of an unforgettable night in their heads, on their way back to Cartagena from Jaén. Some woke up with the medal hanging around their neck and others, like Waltinho, in the Virgen de la Caridad Emergency Room with a swollen ankle.
Nobody, in any way, wanted to miss the improvised party that the Cartagena City Council organized for them. Only Pablo Ramírez was missing, due to a last-minute health problem. At six thirty in the afternoon, the tourist bus, which usually shows visitors the charms of the city, became the improvised celebration hall for the champions. The Jimbee players toured the Alameda de San Antón, Calle Real and the Muelle de Alfonso XII to show the citizens the first title in the history of Cartagena indoor soccer.
With the sea in the background, the mayor, Noelia Arroyo, was waiting for the players, managers and coaching staff of the club at the Town Hall. There they were entertained by the political authorities of Cartagena, with the first mayor and the Sports Councilor José Martínez (both present at Sunday's final in Jaén), at the head of the delegation.
López Miras, Noelia Arroyo, former players and clubs in the city, such as Cebé, Algar and CAB, congratulate Jimbee on social networks
It took three decades of waiting for Cartagena's futsal to uncork the bottle of titles. The wait was worth it, for the release of a joy that had been contained for years; for all the difficulties of the past and for how close that first trophy once came. If in the summer of 2018 Miguel Ángel Jiménez Bosque crossed the door of the Town Hall to rescue the club from disappearance, this time he did it to celebrate what he dreamed of so many times and few people believed: the title that ends the historic bad streak of this sport in Spain.
The president of Jimbee Cartagena, for all these reasons, was one of those who grabbed the microphone, leaning out from the balcony of the Town Hall, to address the hundreds of fans present in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento. “We have done this for and by Cartagena,” he said when acclaimed. The more than five hundred people who came to the Plaza del Ayuntamiento also took the opportunity to chant at the mayor to “fix the Palace” in view of the Spanish Cup from March 21 to 24. Noelia Arroyo replied that they should give her “a little time” and she hoped that those “duties would be resolved by then.”
«There is a double bonus»
The coach, Duda, promised that this will not be the only title nor a “mirage.” Little by little, the joke began to fill the atmosphere with all kinds of jokes and songs. The staff sang to the president that now “there is a double bonus.” Another group shouted at Darío Gil, ElPozo Murcia's youth player until last summer, “he who doesn't bounce is a Murcian.” The former butcher jumped up laughing. El Cebé, CAB, Algar Surmenor and CRU Cartagena, among others, congratulated Jimbee on social networks.
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