Zaragoza celebrates ‘San Nayim’

every May 10 Saragossa looks back and remembers with nostalgia when his team, the Real Zaragozais one of the Spanish soccer roosters and is named after Europe. His decade of wandering in Second division The result of a terrible economic management carried out about 15 years ago, it emotionally punished Zaragocismo but it did not affect a passionate entertainment that continues to flow in the stadium of the Romaredatickets go on sale for visiting fans wherever they go and face each new season with renewed hope that one day things will return to normal, though soon dangerous reality will cut those hopes short again. that’s hope.

but as he wrote Benito Perez Galdos their ‘National Episodes’ “Saragossa will he give up? Death to say it. Saragossa He doesn’t give up. They will make it dust; brick by brick will not remain in its historic houses; its hundred temples will fall; its earth will open spewing forth fire; and the foundations are thrown into the air, the tiles will fall to the bottom of the wells; but among the rubble and among the dead there is always a living language to say that Zaragoza does not give up.”

‘The Madrid of modesty’

The fact is that even now says something, the fact is that many clubs that in history have been so even if they change their record for their hands, champions of a European Cup Winners’ Cupa cup of fairssix King’s Cups and one Spanish Supercup. For a long time Saragossa It was called ‘the Madrid of modesty’, for his effectiveness in the finals. He made more than he lost even in most of ‘Cinderella’.

Of all the trophies in its showcases, this is undoubtedly the one European Cup Winners’ Cup of 1995 was the jewel in the crown, especially for the outcome of that final in which he was also Juan Eduardo Esnaider He scored a superb goal in the 68th minute, a 1-0 draw which Hartson equalized in the 75th minute for the ‘Gunners’. But the epic comes in the epilogue. There were only 20 seconds to go in extra time when Andoni Cedrún His long-term goal. After a few rebounds, the ball reached Nayimwhich is located near the middle of the field and only changed bands after entering the pitch of cool. The man from Ceuta raised his head, saw David Seaman stepped forward and did not hesitate to launch a metaphor that shocked the goalkeeper Arsenal. kiss kiss on the net. Madness broke out among the 20,000 ‘blanquillos’ fans present at Parc des Princes in Paris.

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Since then and for 28 years that day was remembered in Zaragoza as ‘San Naim’, with many reports, interviews, mentions and comments, now above all on social networks.

An amazing template

Time has passed, the team is not what it used to be but the fans never forget the heroes they lead Victor Fernandez from the bench that made this club better. The starting eleven consists of Cedrún, Belsué, Aguado, Cáceres, Solana, Nayim, Aragón, Poyet, Pardeza, Higuera and Esnáider. They also participated in that game Garcia Sanjuan and Geli. Without forgetting the other teams that made it to that final: Juanmi, Cafú, Óscar Celada, Darío Franco, Loreto, Gay, Lizarralde, Belman or the deceased always miss Sergi López. With a popular number Manolo Assistant Coach Snows, Jesus Villanueva As a doctor, Pedro Herrera (father of Ander) as technical secretary, Alfonso Solans Serrano as president, etc, etc, etc… Everything made Real Zaragoza even bigger than it was on May 10, 1995.