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In La Coruña there are more sportsmen than soccer fans. This is not so strange if we consider that Deportivo is not that it offers many signs of being a soccer team.

The reason is that Deportivo and the city have always recognized each other. He will not play soccer, but Deportivo is the wild card for the elevator conversation, the white and blue of the aprons of the fishmongers of the Plaza de Lugo or the romantic inheritance of a grandfather to his grandson. It is a link that transcends the game, that is why it is not difficult to find sportsmen who do not know who Sergio Ramos is but remember Bebeto or shellfishers who hum the hymn of Dépor although they do not know how many players there are in a starting team. In the full name of the club, Deportivo de La Coruña, the preposition is superfluous and a script is missing.

This city-team identification occurs regardless of any sporting event, it does not matter that Dépor may be the first team since 1947 to descend to 2ºB with a title of League champion in its trophy room. Then it was Betis when going down to Third , which was the equivalent of the current one. If all the Galician topics were a football team, this would be Deportivo, which the same year went from celebrating the 20th anniversary of its league title to looking out into the abyss. The drama, the mysticism, the struggles, the fatality, the paranormal events, the coming and going of glory with the same resignation of those who get up on Monday at five in the morning ... They are all there.

The night of Djukic's penalty was the first time that those born in the 80s understood the drama that Deportivo can entail ("I did not cry for football. I cried for Dépor"). The cruelty of that day was beyond losing the League, there were the ways: you had to wait for the discount to get a penalty kick that made you a champion if you scored it. Clearly it failed.

The esoteric has always accompanied Dépor: that Cup final suspended by an inexplicably forceful hail (in June, in Madrid), the stands of Riazor burning -literal- before playing a promotion to First, going down to Second without having been in positions downhill throughout the season ... A year ago, in fact, he stayed in Mallorca one goal away from returning to First Division . And he had it in a header in the 93rd minute.

Budget for what

For anyone it would be suspicious that they always happen to him, but in La Coruña he ended up accepting it with a slight shrug and a "good" coming out of his mouth. How to explain the season in which Deportivo is close to dropping to 2nd B should be a core subject in any engineering.

The changes of coach, the two directives, the overvalued squad - it has been wearily and proudly repeated that Dépor is the sixth salary cap for Segunda when it would be necessary to ask for explanations with horror if the players are analyzed one by one - or perhaps a meigallo for having decided to play with horizontal stripes. No one knows why it can fall, but it is known that the blow would be legendary.

Deportivo is English in Magaluf and he does not seem to understand the danger of playing near the balcony on the sixth floor. Looking to 2ºB, the fall would not only be sports but also social and, above all, economic. Club structure and debt may be too large for a category where soccer is unprofessional.

Last summer La Coruña was lamenting for not having obtained the promotion to First and a year later he sobbed for despicable games, although this time the fight is no longer to return to where you were happy but to survive. Tonight against Fuenlabrada, a newcomer from 2ºB and who is playing to enter the promotion playoff , Deportivo will not depend on himself. You must win and wait for Lugo or Albacete not to do so . It is an unforeseen equation, especially since Fernando Vázquez returned to the bench and stirred a sleepy locker room. From being descended at Christmas, they even dreamed (briefly) of the promotion playoff . Pure mirage. After confinement, the black clouds again.

That the pool was too far from the balcony, Deportivo has realized after jumping and the catastrophic final will only save an unexpected gust of wind. For now, all of La Coruña is already blowing.

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