Athletic gives Osasuna a happy centenary

It happened on October 24, 1920 at

, located in Pasadizo de la Jacoba, between Plaza del Castillo and Calle Zapatería.

There the directors of Sportiva Foot-Ball Club and those of the New Club met and came to the conclusion that it was worth joining forces for the common good, a lesson that a century later remains valid and is appropriate in the times we live in. .

And not exactly in football.

The fact is that that meeting sprouted a new club, which they called Club Atlético Osasuna, which became the great reference of the city.

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Exactly 100 years after that day, the Navarrese team has hosted this Saturday at El Sadar one of those games of great historical rivalry against Athletic, things of destiny.

A decaffeinated centennial, as there was no one in the stands to decorate it, but a centennial after all.

There was much to celebrate in Pamplona, ​​but Osasuna required a triumph for the party to be, within the constraints, more in a Navarre in perimeter confinement, complete.

And Athletic agreed to provide it, specifically

, who with an absurd penalty allowed Rubén García to sign what will always be the victory of the centenary.

It was not a great football game, quite the opposite.

He could fall on the side of anyone, but he did it from the rojillo, returning Athletic to the point where it was before its match the previous Sunday against Levante.

Then,

green shoots

were seen in

painting

that were once again buried underground in Pamplona.

The same crude and inoffensive football displayed in the first games of the season reappeared and with it the defensive gifts.

Well, there was only one, but it was so huge that it cost Athletic the game.

Osasuna had plenty of pace and lacks precision, so his attacks became fleeting events that ended up getting lost on the edges of the field.

The problem of the people of Bilbao was the same as always, their enormous difficulties to penetrate well-armed defenses.

And since Arrasate had learned his lesson, he always does, barely giving his rival spaces.

Between one thing and the other, the first part was a perfectly expendable soccer time in which Athletic proposed something else without it being of any use to them.

, a shot from the edge of Unai López and a direct foul from the midfielder, but in all those cases without having to demand too much.

Heading into the second half, the game became even more indigestible.

Athletic stopped looking around the Herrera area and that began to be a runner-up full of inaccuracies, actions of wanting and not being able to.

A scenario that did not seem to displease Arrasate and Garitano at all, who did not move the bench until the final quarter of an hour.

In defense of the rojillo coach, it should be pointed out that the casualties had left him almost without offensive solutions on the bench.

The conformism of the Athletic coach, on the other hand, has no excuse.

The entrance of

slightly woke up the locals, somewhat deeper and more dynamic, while Athletic had engraved on their foreheads that the draw was worth it.

That was the way things were until, in the 80th minute in an internship in the Barja area, Capa arrived very late and took the red winger ahead.

Rubén García, with poise, converted the maximum penalty, approached a corner, lifting a shirt with the number 12 and 'Afición' as a name to celebrate an ideal centenary.

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