It is called Phantom Limb Syndrome and consists of the symptoms that some people experience in a limb that has been amputated. And that feeling is what the UD Logroñés fans have been suffering since July 18 … 2020, when the team was promoted to the Second Division. A muted ascent, on mute. Without an audience in the stands, with the dilemma of containing a historic celebration out of respect for the global pain caused by the covid, and punished to hide their smiles behind damn masks, the red and white fans have since suffered from Phantom Limb Syndrome.
That season in the Second Division, with the fans glued to the TV and the transistor, is a scar that has not yet finished healing. An amputated season for a feeling that he needs, that urgently needs to be shared.
Because, at the end of the day, what is football if you don’t live, suffer and enjoy it with your loved ones? There is no more exciting expression than celebrating your team’s success. Out social elevators. The hugs that were pending yesterday in Las Gaunas equate rich businessmen with shopkeepers and delivery people. To doctors, patients and those on waiting lists. To professors and students. To beautiful people with authentic children of Satan. Football is like that!
The feeling of belonging to a club transcends beyond reason. Colors, a path to take and a shoulder to lean on make it happen. There is something innate, primitive, visceral, primary, that unites Manolo in Brazil, my friend Santiago who cried on Sunday in León, and those who filled the city with white and red. Goosebumps in the Argentine Republic and sandy throat in Las Gaunas.
I heard Abadía, Tato Abadía, say last Friday on a radio program that the best thing about the current Las Gaunas stadium is “that it has all the time ahead of it to write its own history.” A route that its predecessor, the traditional Las Gaunas, completed years ago.
This Sunday an important chapter was written in that new history that is about to be completed. It was a drama. No hot cloths. A failure of a project that was not capable of being first or second in the regular league, and that failed when it had everything in its favor. But, in the same way, he was able to gather 14,000 souls in the field. And that human capital cannot be missed. They do not deserve it.
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