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Deportivo de La Coruña is a Second Division B team. It is curious that such an undeniable event, even deserved, can encompass so many adjectives, inexplicable facts, implausible decisions, buts and esques . In short, Galicianism .

"What a topic," they will say. Fatalism as an excuse, a kind of Calimero finished in a child to whom everything happens to him. It is evident that one of the most difficult things in the world is to be an exemplary topic. The friends of his friends are not usually so much, and rare is the one that really fulfills. Without departing from football, Madrí has played 13 Champions League games without playing anything and the Germans win matches by just aligning 11 players.

The topic of the love for the drama of Deportivo is not in the descent. Anyone can go down, it is enough to win a match and not do it again until 20 days have passed. The how is what makes Dépor inimitable.

The last day of Segunda had a key game: Deportivo - Fuenlabrada . Rayo Vallecano and Elche depended on the Madrid team to have options to enter the promotion playoff . Dépor needed to win that match - Rayo and Elche would be delighted - and wait for Lugo and Albacete not to do so; perhaps drawing could be enough to save themselves from the abyss of falling to semi-professional football, but if a game had to be news for the first positive - massive? - of Covid-19 it could not be another. No way.

In a day where all the games are played at the same time to avoid suspicions and maintain a live tension, it was decided to suspend only one game, precisely the one that decided possible promotions and descents. A decision that made it impossible for Deportivo to fight his salvation on the field of play and that led him to 2ªB when Lugo and Albacete won their matches. The hypotheses can go a long way, and the conspiracies were already flying in networks the same night. Playing this is for teenagers with ouija and beers, but Rayo, Elche, Numancia and Deportivo can, objectively, feel that they have not been able to compete on equal terms.

Djukic's snort

The recidivism in causing possible heart attacks to Deportivo fans is why we begin to joke that the best way that Amancio Ortega would have to contribute to health in La Coruña would be to entertain his retirement playing 'PC Soccer' with the team.

The penalty of Djukic is the Puerto Hurraco city. In 1994, a Deportivo who had promoted only two seasons before, reached the last day depending on himself to be the league champion. Enough to win Valencia, who is not playing anything, to go over the Dream Team of Johan Cruyff. The script of the drama could not be other, and "without time or to breathe", as coach Arsenio Iglesias said , they whistled a penalty in favor of the A Coruña team. If checked, League champions. Of course, drama.

Although the catastrophic endings are usually the most remembered, also some of the greatest joys of sportsmanship were embraced by a drama, great in those cases.

Fire in Riazor, hail in Madrid

So it was in the promotion of June 1991 . Deportivo - Murcia from that end of the League, where they were playing to rise to the First Division, was suspended (does it sound?) After three minutes because the stands of Riazor began to burn. The summary of the meigallo of Depor, to which things always happened, Arsenio expressed it: "I shit in milk", he released to television. That day he was promoted with two goals from Stojadinovic , the Super Dépor was born and it seemed that we would be eternally happy. A fire that was well worth a promotion.

And the hail was worth the 1995 Cup . When Deportivo returned to play a title, this time the Copa del Rey one season after the ever-missed penalty, the drama decided that in Madrid, in June, an incredibly radical hail fell. The game had to be suspended (weren't they expecting it?) With 1-1 and 11 minutes to play ... Binary matches. The longest game started on a Saturday and ended the following Tuesday , but Alfredo stuck his head in time for the few A Coruña people who managed to keep them from kicking them out of work because they were still in Madrid closed all the bars in Azca.

Alfredo, an unimaginable forward fighter these days playing in the elite that was able to give two Copas del Rey in a few years to two teams, Atleti (1991) and Dépor.

Image of the 1995 Cup final, marked by a huge storm.

A red joke

Sometimes the script twists have caused joy without having a defibrillator nearby. Something that has been appreciated in the city. This was the comeback to Milan in Kaka in 2004 , a 4-0 in Riazor (it was Easter, data for mystics) after having received a forceful 4-1 in the first leg .

With that, the classification for a Champions semifinals was achieved for the first - and only - time. Of course then, when everyone saw each other in a final and with Fran playing Iron or Schmeichel came the expulsion of Andrade in Porto, who wanted to greet his compatriot Deco during the semis with a touch with the boot that the referee understood as aggression.

Only an only child who did not know the fraternal affections would be able to interpret that joke as a fight, but with a large family or not, the best central defender of the team could not play the return match, where Porto won thanks to a penalty (these coincidences they will begin to be suspicious) that he committed, yes; Andrade's substitute . What fate gives you ...

After Deportivo dropped to 2nd B yesterday, all of these historical setbacks seem like minor first-world problems, a losing connection when you started connecting with someone through Tinder. The abyss of this Dépor is no longer just sports, they are topics that the leaders do not dare to even whisper in public and that worry much more than the bad WiFi.

A great debt, a club structure infinitely superior to the needs of the new category ... Your luck will be that the white and blue will continue to be so from La Coruña that it will not matter where they play. "We are Sports" is the city . Hopefully the only humiliation next year is to have to play against the Celta de Vigo affiliate .

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