The rebirth of the mythical Compostela, with the 90s and Caneda in memory: "There was an excess of emotion"

A beardless

starting in the middle of

, dodging blue and white shirts in one of the most famous moments in the history of the League.

throwing his fist into the face of José González Fidalgo before the attentive threatening gaze of

, who upon seeing the action threw himself towards the boss of Atlético de Madrid in one of the most iconic moments of

It was another time.

Years of controversy and glory, in which the

mpostela

kept on

With solvency and carefree about debts, she signed internationals and even became winter runner-up behind Atlético del doublet. More than two decades later, all that has died.

, sunk in defaults, in the ambition of a

who gave everything, even what he did not have, to see his team with the greats of Spanish football.

And that when the club descended into the hell of Second B, he continued signing checks that the organization could not pay, eager he and the club's management to return to the elite, liquidating the history of the team, founded in the sixties, in 2004, with a

for debts of more than one billion pesetas.

Jesús Gil hits Fidalgo in front of Caneda.

At the same time that the SAD Compostela disappeared, the

.

"It will be different", they would think of the Galician capital.

Nothing is further from reality.

Caneda took over the command post of the new club, changed the name to SD Compostela and promised to take it

.

He could not, and in 2011 he left the organization permanently after the

, the

and even the presence of the

in a training session to carry out a labor inspection of footballers and club employees.

The same mistakes from the past

The 'goodbye' of the eternal Caneda, beyond liquidations and refoundations, was the true

inflection point

in the management of Compostela.

Antonio Quinteiro

A former player of the quarry, he became president and promised, and promised, not to make the mistakes of his predecessors to try to return the elite to the city of Santiago.

It was not so.

The club built a

project to go back to Second too fast

and flopped along the way, moving up to Second B but falling back to Third in 2016. "Some people from out of town wanted to get involved in the club, they had experience and

they presented us with a project without control

.

Players from many places, without knowing each other, with a new coach ... We had many problems and we descended, "Quinteiro summarizes to EL MUNDO. That descent changed the mentality of those responsible. They finally saw the mistakes of the past and their own, and they focused on the roots of Compostela. In Santiago and its young people. "

It was a painful year, but one of learning

.

We settle our heads and we settle with the city, we involve it.

We made a club more of our own, one more team from Santiago.

A project adjusted to reality,

without making economic efforts

and taking Galician roots ", he explains. The Compostela players celebrate their last promotion to Second B.

crossing the desert of the Third Division

who has served Compostela to train the new decade with promotion to Second Division B. During the season he has received in the stands of San Lázaro

teenagers "with his scarf and his shirt

", which vibrated until the last second of the final against Ourense, has

propped up his quarry

with the creation of new categories and important people in the administration to

avoid departures to Celta and Deportivo

.

"We want to generate kids at the grassroots, train them and make them professionals.

Any young man from Santiago who wants to grow up in football knows that he has a club here to trust

", acknowledges Quinteiro, while dreaming of bigger things but always with leaden feet:" The objective is to settle in Second B and

do not rush

.

We are going to keep the squad and coaching staff for this year and we will try to enter the Second Pro ".

Caneda, during training in 1999.

Caneda's example: "Everyone is fond of him"

All away from

impossible goals from previous years

.

It was a question of management, analyzes, on the time of the nineties.

"

There was an excess of emotion

and the management was not attended.

The Compostela did not know how to mature quickly and the economic strength of the city did not give it capacity when it fell back to Second.

There came the debacle.

We have to take

the example of Eibar

, a small city in which the club has not done crazy things and has taken care of itself ", he sums up. Quinteiro also reflects on

Caneda

, hero and villain of soccer in Santiago.

"José María has done something difficult to achieve.

Everyone is fond of him

.

He has had clashes with the City Council and other organizations because

things do not arrive in the quantities that one wants or expects

.

Those confrontations hurt him in the projects of each year because there was no harmony.

There are towns and cities in Spain that only have one team in the elite and all the aid goes to them, but in Santiago it is not like that.

I think that's where

José María did not have enough patience to avoid conflict

.

He was very brave, they climbed very fast but the illusion, together with the lack of experience, led to an imbalance.

And we are not here to judge, but to learn and

that does not happen again

".

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