Cartagena B and Mar Menor, who battled for promotion in 2021, will face each other on Sunday with several goals and multiple exalbinegros in the visiting ranks
The last two kings of Murcian football, Mar Menor and Cartagena B, will meet again this Sunday (Cartagonova, 5pm) in the national category of the Second RFEF. It will be a derby with completely opposite dynamics, as the Albinegros have to get out of the relegation spots and the Marmeronenses have to keep the pressure on leader Antequera.
This duel has been repeated many times in Third. The last time, on June 6, 2021, Mar Menor and Cartagena B measured their strength for promotion to Second RFEF. It was at the El Pitín stadium, where the locals asserted their qualifying status to move up despite the final score on the scoreboard (1-1). That’s how the ones from San Javier came from the underground. And that blow boosted, even more, subsidiary Efesé’s efforts to make the leap in category.
The Albinegros did it last season. In this premiere in the Second RFEF, the results are not really stable for those of Pepe Aguilar. At the moment Cartagena B is in a direct relegation position to third place with 7 points out of a possible 21. The goal is to save at all costs a very young side who lose pieces every day for the first team.
Quite the opposite of the Mar Menor, who have been a strong contender for promotion to First RFEF since last season. Pedro Alburquerque’s men have 18 points, are second and have won six of the seven games played. Their squad is more inexperienced, veteran and seasoned than Cartagena B’s. Those from San Javier scored 12 goals thanks to the resounding victory over Recreativo Granada (4-1).
Credit to this are football players with a recent past in Efesé. This Sunday, ‘El Mago’ Quim Araujo, one of the heroes of Albinegro’s promotion to Second Division, returns to what was his home in the 2019/20 season. It was more or less the Catalan, who at the age of 34 stands out in this Mar Menor.
Morros and Kleandro also wore the first team albinegra. And it was Alberto Vázquez, who went to Cádiz B in a way that Cartagena didn’t like. Tekio was wanted in the past by Belmonte and Breis.
The countdown begins for Cartagena B’s Venezuelan striker Jeriel de Santis to make his debut. The 20-year-old Albinegro footballer has been living his special administrative nightmare since he arrived at the club two months ago. Hopefully the wait will come to an end this week, if the administration is not late with the deadlines and delivers the visa.
Called to make a difference, this mighty ‘9’ has had to move all the paperwork practically from scratch to regularize his situation in Spain, with the delay that this entails. The boy had everything in order as he had a professional and valid contract with Boavista, a Portuguese team that loaned him to Cartagena. But that role wasn’t enough to get him to play in Spain, despite being a member of the European Union.
A week ago he solved everything at the Spanish consulate in Porto. Now he just waits for the newspaper. There is hope he will receive it this week.
Source: La Verdad
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