From San Siro to Reale (1)

About 1,220 km separates the capital of Lombardy from San Sebastián, and almost 44 years between the two events that I want to evoke today. On September 19, 1979, a novel Real Sociedad, directed by Alberto Ormaetxea, is visiting one of the temples of world football, the San Siro stadium in Milan. This is almost the fourth appearance of txuri urdin in a continental competition. A year before, Real visited another cathedral of football, such as Anfield Road, to visit and almost pay tribute to Liverpool by Keegan, Toshack and company. The balance of that tie could not be more discouraging (1-9 overall), but that Real, who two years later will be proclaimed, against all odds, the champion of the League, is a soft just a baby in the hands of a giant predator. like the British team.

Well, almost 12 months later, the ormaetxea They traveled to Milan to face Inter ng baresi, altobelli and other known relatives. That is not very good, and even if our team should be a little more mature, not enough time has passed to trust that group of footballers, who, over the years, will write some of the most brilliant page. in the history of the club. And reality consolidated this thesis, and the Italians prevailed with a resounding 3-0 that left the tie almost resolved.

In that squad there are footballers of the stature of altobelli, causio, heard, oriali and trapto be proclaimed world champion with Italy in 1982, without forgetting a very young one Giuseppe Baresi, who eventually became a transalpine football legend. Against this transatlantic, the quarterfinals and the passage to the next round were played by a modest team from San Sebastián, which was just taking its first steps in the international concert, and which, as expected, ended up paying of the obligatory toll. in these cases. But the turn was still there at Atotxa.

From San Siro to Reale (2)

…But the turn at Atotxa is still there. Two weeks later, on October 3, when the old farm in the neighborhood of Egia was full, the men of Alberto Ormaetxea they will fight until exhaustion, in an attack against all logic, spin an impossible tie.
And they are about to break the foundations of Atotxa, and blow up all the prophecies; was about to beat one of Europe’s greats, in a memorable night, which many will remember as the best game ever played in such a legendary setting. Not a few would have thought that, had it not been for an unfortunate performance by the British braid sir.PartridgeToday we will produce a breakthrough for Real Sociedad.
Well, after 44 years, Real has once again been presented with an opportunity to repay a ‘debt’ contracted in the distant past; the Royal Society no longer lives in Atotxa, it is true; A new, bigger house was bought, where more people fit, all the people tomorrow, Thursday, March 16, 2023, will take over from that historic night in 1979, to lead their team in pursuit of a dream … almost impossible.

Sassuolo is the way

A team with a small name, with a modest pedigree, but it showed Real could be the path to take to beat the Romans tomorrow at Anoeta. Every game is a different story, and everything I can say then will never cease to be speculation, but it is clear that Roma, MourinhoThey command respect, but they are weak, as Sassuolo revealed.

Is there anyone there?

No answer. Churches in VillanuevaApparently, he was not in the VOR room in Las Rozas on Sunday at the time of the Son Moix game. Because if he had been, he would have been forced to intervene to remove his mistake Martinez Munuera in playing the canceled goal on Le Normand. Ah, what is that? Well, then it’s even worse, because now it really doesn’t make sense.