The defeat of

Almería

in

Cartagena

allows

Mallorca to

ascend without playing their match in Tenerife.

This promotion becomes the ninth in its history, in recent years it has gone up and down the category without stopping.

The vermilions return to Primera ten months and two days later.

Mallorca, with the fourth highest budget in the category (19 million euros), after

Espanyol

(45.3),

Almería

(27.6) and

Leganés

(26.7), has hit the right keys to recover a place in First just one year after losing it. He overcame with tuition the trauma of being left without his fetish coach,

Vicente Moreno

, the one with the three promotions in a row, and without his main players, the Croatian

Ante Budimir

(Osasuna), the Japanese

Take Kubo

(Getafe) and the Colombian

"Cucho" Hernández

(Getafe).

He bet on

Luis García Plaza

, a well-known coach who in recent seasons had been practicing in Saudi Arabia and China and, therefore, disconnected from the day-to-day Spanish football. The Madrid coach maintained, with very good criteria as has been shown, the block of recent years and trusted other players who have been key in the promotion such as

Abdón Prats

,

Íñigo Ruiz de Galarreta

,

Antonio Sánchez

and

Amath Ndiayé.

Luis García's Mallorca, moreover, has beaten its historical records of points in one season (total 76) in Second Division, surpassing the 73 of

Vicente Moreno

in Second B, the 70 of

Tomeu Llompart

in the 1996-1997 season and the 71 of

Luis Aragonese

in First (2000-2001). The team, however, went through difficult times in the final stretch of the championship, which was very uphill after adding 2 points out of 18 at stake in six consecutive starts.

The Local Police of Palma has closed the entrances to Plaza Juan Carlos I to avoid crowds of RCD Mallorca fans celebrating this promotion.

However, fans will be able to attend

Son Moix

next Monday, May 24 to see their team play against

Zaragoza

with the place in First secured for the next season.

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