Just two years ago CE Cardassar played in Primera Regional, although football was the last thing that mattered.

In autumn 2018, torrential rains caused the torrent that runs through Sant Llorenç to overflow, leaving 13 fatalities and the town devastated.

From that tragedy the image of

Rafa Nadal

bailing out water and mud

is remembered

, one of the hundreds of volunteers who came to help the residents of this Mallorcan town, 10 kilometers from Manacor.

Two years have passed and Nadal returns this Tuesday as the guest of honor.

Cardassar plays the Copa del Rey for the first time in its history and makes its debut against Atlético de Madrid (7pm).

He was the rival that everyone wanted, the most difficult that the draw offered.

Well, everyone except the president,

Jaume Soler

.

"After the catastrophe, Atlético has been as if we were the Fat," he admits, although he would have preferred to face Osasuna.

This 30-year-old biologist had only been in office for a few months when the mud took everything away and the Navarrese club sent a shipment of material.

Among other things, he sent his away kit, which was then yellow and black like the Carde colors.

The storm also destroyed Es Moleter, the field visited by Atlético de Madrid on Tuesday.

Cardassar had to go into exile for seven games, although that football, Soler recalls, "went to the background."

He had to help his neighbors first and then the quarry, which had to be distributed among the towns in the area.

“We wanted the children to be able to regain that part of their normality soon.

At last, 70% and 80% of the local children come here, ”he explains.

On Kings Day 2019, less than three months after the tragedy, the Cardassar reopened the field thanks in large part to the help of Nadal, who donated one million euros to rebuild the sports facilities of Sant Llorenç.

The Manacorense is invited to tonight's game along with the nearly 150 children from the quarry, the only ones who had a guaranteed entrance in a capacity of 300. But Nadal, who has a dedicated street and was named the favorite son of the town, did he is the only special guest.

The kick-off will be done by Virginia Torrecilla, a footballer for the Atlético de Madrid women's team and a neighbor of Son Servera, a town very close to Sant Llorenç, who has been fighting a brain tumor since May.

Miquel Àngel Tomàs

, Cardassar's coach, will go to the game after giving his Physical Education class to young children at a school in Manacor.

You will not be the only one who has had to work.

This Monday,

Abel Julve

, one of the team captains, was finishing printing the shirts for the game, because in addition to defense he is a sign-maker.

And this Tuesday, like other teammates, before playing against Atlético de Madrid he also had a job.

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