CAJASUR CÓRDOBA-IBIZA CHRONICLE | PROMOTION TO SILVER HANDBALL DIVISION

There is no competition more evil than a promotion like the one that Cajasur Córdoba and Ibiza Handbol began to settle in the Fatima pavilion. For the locals, the situation is a success: they can make a leap in category after a formidable season; For visitors, it is torture: they defend a condition questioned due to its poor results. The players get overexcited and the coaches have to bring a little sanity… or let themselves be carried away by the powerful seduction of chaos.. They go with everything and whatever comes up. He promotion to the Silver Honor Division The Córdoba team is at the expense of a feat on the Ibiza court, which took the victory 25-32 after a confrontation that followed the classic patterns: there was more passion than tactics.

The powerful voice of Fatima

Anyone who is not motivated by a scenario like the one that took place in Fatima has no blood in their veins. And the Cajasur one was boiling. With the stands dyed red and the formation of Notary revolutionized, the staging was shocking. Each goal provoked delirium and the Cordobans clung to that positive inertia to score. the first distances (4-2). To say that Ibiza was surprised by that start would be saying too much. The island team, aware that everything that was coming upon them was within logic, allowed themselves to be done without losing their composure. He received the blows by remaining standing, waiting for his opportunity to say, with facts, that his status is from a higher division. The same one that Cajasur Córdoba tried to take away from them with a sports speech full of strength and emotion. Encounters like this are those who give meaning to the daily work of many kids who were in the stands, imbued with club culture.

The Ibizans managed to turn the score around after eight minutes (5-6), supported by some good interventions from their goalkeeper. Cajasur understood that to move forward they needed to go beyond their potential, push it to the limit. The support of Ibiza was felt in Escribano’s team, that after conceding a partial score of 1-6 (5-8) he had to find strength to redirect the situation. He did it hand in hand with his people, who did not stop supporting: they looked at the court and not at the scoreboard. That was a good recipe to reduce the anguish and not lose face in the dispute, which moved in short differences although with the blues taking control.

Roberto, the most inspired

Grasping at the offensive inspiration of Roberto Muñoz, scorer of seven of his team’s twelve goals in the first half, Cajasur held the line against a stronger Ibiza. After a period without scoring by both, the final stretch of the first half was electrified. There was a flurry of exclusions, many stops in the game, a chain of errors of all kinds. The maroons looked for a way to cling to life before the break, but they fell short (12-16).

Ibiza tried to quell the rebellion from the return of the booth. She placed 13-18, asserting their defense against an enraged Cajasur and, for that reason, blinded on many occasions to look for their best attacking option. But that’s how things are. Escribano’s men did what they had to, although the succession of fruitless attacks was frustrating.

At 16-22, Escribano called a timeout. The CBM knocked on the rebound, but goalkeeper Roberto’s saves prevented a turnaround. Ibiza took advantage of the local rush to take its biggest advantages (19-26). There was no way to change the course of a match in which the Córdoba team left its mark: untamed, proud and leaving – once again – the general impression that he is not quite where he should be..