Thinking about football, the 1990s are Kiko in Barcelona 92 , Tassotti's elbow to Luis Enrique , Koeman in Wembley and Mijatovic in Amsterdam . They are Zidane in France 98 , Nayim's goal for the Recopa del Zaragoza and the Djukic penalty for the first tears of one of the most iconic teams in the history of Spanish football, the 'SuperDepor' .

A Coruña , a city of 250,000 inhabitants that came from celebrating an ascent, suddenly found himself fighting with the greats of Spain and Europe. With two world stars, Bebeto and Mauro Silva , as flagships and a house coach, Arsenio Iglesias , at the controls. The Galicians raised a Cup and lived quietly in First until the Bosman Law drove Augusto César Lendorio crazy to build the 'SuperDepor 2.0': Rivaldo as an investment and Djalminha as a great star, the League of 2000, Valerón, Diego Tristán and the centenary cup at the Bernabéu , the Champions semifinals against Mourinho ...

The 'SuperDepor' died as almost all Spanish football died . Drowned by the debts of a sportingly unforgettable stage that ended in an economic nightmare from which he still tries to wake up. " Lendoiro perhaps made a workforce above what could be done and got into debt, but now there is an aura of negativity that transcends people and the team," explains Francisco, of the sportswoman Rubia Galega. Deportivo, already without the Super, is now the colista of the Second Division to five points of salvation, survives economically with a Bankruptcy Law in which he still owes almost 100 million euros , has eight ceded, presented two days ago to his second coach of the season and presence of an eternal social fracture between the fans and the board since the departure of Lendoiro, after 25 years, in 2014.

In his place came Tino Fernández with a "hard but inevitable" economic plan. For the money, the Bankruptcy Law. For football: ten technicians in five years, some as strange as Clarence Seedorf , guilty for many of the descent to Second two seasons ago. The playoffs for the rise of last year were about to put peace, but the Coruña team was defeated against Mallorca after winning the first leg. That same week Paco Zas was elected as president, who has not fallen well in A Coruña: " The atmosphere is scrambled, " explains journalist Jesus Sobrino. " People want a revolution, " says Angel, another partner. «Let the president and sports director, Carmelo del Pozo, leave and start from scratch». Del Pozo is accused of the low level of the workforce despite having the sixth salary cap in the category . "The team is full of patches and there are no references," concludes Francisco.

«The referents» and «the quarry» are something that is repeated in the complaints of the fans. "Some uprooting is seen," they say. There is only one Coruña in the squad, Captain Bergantiños , who is 34 years old, and there is a fear that no one will pull the car when the Second Division B begins to be closer. "There has always been much doubt about the capacity of the quarry people," summarizes Geri Malaj , a youth squad for eight years, in which he coincided with Juan Domínguez and Bergantiños, the last to have some weight in the team.

« It has been a structural problem for years , in the process of training the kids. For example here the comparison with Celta is a lot , which hurts, but it is so. They are two quarries that compete the same in lower categories, one is productive and the other is not, ”he says, adding:“ In my time, for example, there was no coach in the inferiors who was a former player of the first team. And they need to be. Valerón was of his own free will, as the second of the youth, but nothing more. The club has had great players in the first team that for various reasons have not been linked to the quarry. That would help.

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