A famous comedian said to live in Galicia is a challenge for Valientes because region has Spanish economy and British climate. Unbeatable combination that, however, vanished in La Coruña during the last years of the twentieth century. One came out … Sun that seemed eternal and the pesetas seemed to grow from the trees. At that time, when the city could only presume in the sports field of having a large skate hockey teamthe Lyceum, a man appeared with the name of Emperor Romano and with the lip of a street seller to set up a cult of worship, the superdépor.
Captained by Arsenio Iglesias first and later by ‘Jabo’ Iruretathe blue and white conquered in seven years, from 1995 to 2002, A League, two King Cups and three Spanish Super Cups. And although there were many heroes of that group, it was the Brazilians who raised the most passions between the stands.
In 1992, Augusto César Lendoiro He climbed to a plane to Rio de Janeiro and with four million dollars to sign two impossible, Bebeto and Mauro Silva, who were about to sign with the Borussia Dortmund and with Rome respectively. But the president, accompanied by his Praetorian guard and with uncontrollable faith, managed to bend the reality at will. First and without prior notice, he appeared at Babeto’s house. It was clear that his wife should be convinced DenisHey, quickly, Lendoiro gave her with a tregadelos pendant, fine Galician ceramics, and a book with photos of La Coruña, among which those of the city beach, Riazor. Of course, the president He was taken from the manga that was colloquially known as the little Copacabana and that the climate of Germany was horrible compared to that of the city. “O Babeto Vaise A Coruña”She said shortly after.
With the first objective fulfilled, the sports delegation moved to Sao Paulo. The Galicians, in an outburst that today would occupy covers, were lodged in the same concentration hotel of the Bragantinowhich the next day had an important game of the Brasileiraoand while Mauro Silva LEndoiro slept wrote his contract. The next day He already had breakfast as a sports player.
What seemed like the dream of a fool had become reality and, of course, the celebration must live up to such feat. How could it be otherwise, toMbos soccer players were presented at the little Copacabanawith the sporty equipment and without boots, giving the ball on the fine Galician sand and on a sunny day he could not.
Five years later, Lendoiro repeated play. The Brazilian Rivaldo He had abandoned the club on the last day of the signing market towards Barcelona. Furious, he started looking for a talent that was up to it. AND Djalminha was chosen. He brought it to Palmeiras and paid ten million dollars for him, about 1,490 million pesetas, which made him the most expensive signing in the entity’s history. His passage through Deportivo is usually summarized with two images, that ‘Lmbotta’ against Real Madrid and the header that gave Irureta in a training. But the truth is that it is surely The greatest talent that has gone through Riazor’s lawnor at least that is what the veterans say of the place, with a ‘canca’ of wine in his hand and with a fantastic memory in the mind.
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