The

Cornellà

has become accustomed to living strong emotions.

Last summer they came close to getting to

Second

, a milestone for a club that was promoted to

Second B

for the first time in its history in 2014. A solitary goal by Agus Medina against

Atlético Baleares

put them in the final, but

Castellón

beat them by the minimum.

Also, by the minimum, he managed to pass the

Copa del Rey round against Marino

, in a match marked by the delay in the arrival of his kits.

Everything was upset.

Vueling behaved very well, finally the kits arrived, but it was an hour and a half after the time the game was scheduled to start.

There were a lot of nerves, a lot of calls

, but all parties did their best.

With all these difficulties, the joy of achieving the classification was even greater ”, highlights

Andrés Manzano

, Cornellà's sports director and an entire institution in a club, where he has been for more than 25 years.

The prize: now face Atlético.

Of course, without an audience.

"

No one will be able to come to see the team more in shape at this time in the Spanish League,

" laments Manzano.

In the 2014-15 season, they already faced a record-breaking Real Madrid.

«We had just gotten up to Second B and it was an unforgettable experience.

We played at the

Espanyol

stadium at home

and 30,000 spectators came.

Later, we also had the opportunity to go to the

Bernabéu

and play there in front of 40,000 or 50,000 other people.

It was very different from what we are going to experience now, without a doubt.

It went back and forth, Madrid came with a great streak, which led them to win the

Club World Cup

and was the record for games won.

For Cornellà, which is now in its seventh season in Second B, having been able to participate in several

Copa del Rey

qualifiers

, having played against Madrid and doing it now with Atlético is a source of pride.

Jordi Alba and Keita, 'their' stars

And, of course, the fruit of great work.

“We have done something that no other team in the Catalan group has done, which is to play six playoffs in a row.

Also, with different coaches.

Going up would have meant great joy at a sporting level and the demonstration that ours is a consolidated sporting project, based on a large quarry, from which many footballers come out, ”explains the Cornellà sporting director.

An entity that players who are now in the elite have passed through, such as

Jordi Alba or Keita Baldé

.

«Our project consists of generating wealth through talent.

That, without a doubt,

is more laborious than having a Qatari fund behind it

, for example, but it is also much more rewarding, "he reiterates.

«When we talk about grassroots football, I always say that their success is our success.

For a club that works so much the quarry, that goes ahead even with regard to the economic part ", sentence.

When Manzano arrived at the club, he started working very early in a small football school that had just started, which is now much more.

«That small school has now become one of the quarries that are a reference both in Spain and in Europe.

We have more than 1,000 players in grassroots football,

many of them from Cornellà.

For me, beyond that integrating role that the club has, the great satisfaction is not only that we train players for professional football, but also that when I walk around the city I am greeted by many boys who were at the club, who go with their children , with the shirt of our team, and tell me that they have signed up for our academy, "says the sports manager of an entity that today receives the leader of the League, a team that travels with some of its holders.

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