The passion and punishment of Dépor: 70 years without a League champion in Segunda B

There are memories that the adult mind should avoid returning to in order not to suffer more.

In one of them there is a dirt soccer field, any Sunday in January and a ball with a Mikasa, a moment that synthesizes everything you would never want for your son.

The

will not play this year on dirt fields or the eternal Mikasa, but adults of

have been forced to evoke that physical pain to identify this one.

Maybe if they read it

suddenly hurt less so here goes: the

.

No team that held the honor of being

had fallen so low in more than 70 years.

In La Coruña there will always be someone from the

beach

or who prefers

, it is a choice for life, but what does not allow so many options is the football team.

One is from Dépor even though he doesn't know it and spends his life celebrating Barça winning whatever it is that sometimes wins.

Sportsmanship is not about soccer but about an intimate and often strange way of belonging.

It is the

.

That many works in the city are delimited with blue and white planks is not by chance, nor is it that there are people who are humming the club's anthem while passing the captain without recognizing him.

, which is the way that grandmothers have of accepting you at home even though you play soccer.

So independent is the sportsmanship of football that only Deportivo thinks of going down to 2ªB - I feel the reminder - and that its partners seem not to know and have reached

at a time when stadiums are more closed than open.

With this, Deportivo already has a record before starting: that of the

.

Perhaps it may seem easy due to track records, coat of arms and city, but it is not the first history that falls there.

The fans' loyalty is humbled by

, president of Dépor: "The level of commitment and unity that sportsmanship has is enormous despite the fact that we are in our worst sporting moments."

The crude reality

If so far all have been bad memories of the bar, the reality of seeing the patch that puts 2ªB on the arm instead of the beloved LaLiga will arrive this afternoon in Riazor against

.

At least the athlete will have two consolations: the return to the vertical stripes on the shirt compared to the new -and ashes- horizontal lines of last season and the return of the public to the stadium.

Of course, with limitations: just over a

will see a debut live that they would never really want to see.

Riazor won't roar but he will be able to vent a bit.

"

", as Vidal expresses it, that is how any sportsman would express it and that is how even a person from Vigo would express it.

In fact,

fans

will have their sweet moment on the weekend of March 14, 2021, when

.

"It will be strange," admits the president, "but you have to take it for what it is: a sporting event."

Every person from A Coruña has a friend from Vigo whom, secretly, or not so secretly, he glances sideways while grumbling about little horsemen and future and hypothetical roads.

Let all the dramas be that.

The variegated

- "surreal", as Vidal defines it - complicates the goal, and the president does not hide that with the previous system Deportivo would be even more favorite.

It ends with a "

", a very Galician twist to say that there are no buts.

The template likes.

"

" says Fernando Vidal proud of his work.

The street also blesses the campus, whispers have been heard on the coast claiming to prefer this team to last year.

The

, the continuity of players like

, the arrival of

, the probable discharge of Diego Rolan ... It will be the team to beat as long as it is committed and in shape, there will be

.

"Being one of those who win is very easy," Riazor sang before the pandemic emptied him, but this year the average sportsman would just want to be that easy-going guy.

They owe it to you.

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