There is a field, there is ascent, there is marriage, there is happiness … Andorra had never felt sporty so happy. After a year in hell and thanks to a goal from Lautaro de Leónthe Pyrenean team regained health in Ponferrada, Lands del Bierzo, to return to the Second Divisionecstasy in the Leonese city and in the Andorran homeland, where fans celebrated the success of their players convinced that there is no turning back. They have climbed to stay.
Marriage, at least request, there was at the Toreralín stadium, where the Ponferradina plays and where the return was played in the final for the promotion to second. The 1st -way tie represented enormous concern. The midfielder felt so happy Round Louismi that in full celebration for victory he asked his girlfriend that if he wanted to marry him. The “yes, I want” his partner was celebrated as a goal.
And marriage, again well avenue, after the crisis last winter, there is again between the authorities of Andorra and Gerard Piquéowner of the team, that a game has not been lost, both at home and outside, since Beto Company He took the direction of the team; In January, after the dismissal of Ferran Costa. Pique He went up on Thursday to Andorra many weeks-for the Andorranos, the Catalans are always' Els de Baix'-, followed the training of his players and stayed until the game. Or, if not, he was traveling with his.
The Andorra template celebrates the promotion to Second, in Ponferrada. / Diary of Andorra / Fernando Galindo
At the same time he was worried and animated at the possibility that the ascent did not bear fruit and the team continued another year in the first federation. Therefore, he proposed to the club's subscribers to travel from Andorra to Ponferrada. He paid the displacement, coach and entrance. 200 people benefited from the initiative of the entity's owner.
In the first leg Eder Sarabiatoday coach of Elche, newly promoted to Primera, wanted to encourage its former players. He was by Andorra, his wife's land, and the game was not lost, nor celebrate the victory of his former team through social networks.
What will happen now? It is the million dollar question. “It has been a very complicated season, with ups and downs, but, little by little, the team met again, controlling the games and being the protagonist,” he said Pique in statements to the 'Diari d'E Andorra'. In winter, the atmosphere was totally different. The Barca eccentral threatened to take the team to another place. “He did not miss offers,” requires a knowledgeable source of the situation. The Andorrano government protested by the former soccer player, but in the end they gathered, spoke and there was a white smoking as in May in Rome.
The problem was always the occupation of National Estadiin Andorra La Vella, that if it was for them, that if I had to play the rugbi selection, that if it was impracticable after placations and trials. The play-offs, first before the Ibiza and then in front of the Ponferradina, have already been played in the new field, the Estadi of the FAF (Andorrana Football Federation), newly built in the town of Encamp and with capacity for 5,200 spectators. It was the Government who paid the rent, at a rate of 35,000 euros per meeting. Now, Pique or your right hand, Jaume Noguésmanager and club director, they have to sit with local authorities to see how the lease of the new stadium for the entire season is paid.
The initial idea was that in the Estadi of the FAF all the teams in the country play. With natural grass such a possibility was unfeasible for a professional set. The Andorra wants the exclusive use; A training a week and one game every 15 days. The bid began with a million euros of departure. The club wants the Government to pay for most of the rent. There is good harmony at the moment.
As there are so that Companythe architect of the ascent, leave the bench and go to occupy other needs in the technical direction of the club. The substitute will be Ibaiformer Athletic player and Alavés, and that this season has made Getxo Arenas reach the first federation. Renew and strengthen all lines is the complicated approach with the return of the Pyrenean club to professional football to stay in the category without renouncing the dream that Pique He had at the end of 2018 when he bought the entity. That Andorra someday has a team first following the example of Monaco in the French league.
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