Athletic Club de Bilbao visit UD Las Palmas this weekend at the Gran Canaria Stadium. This Monday, the players of the yellow team started preparing for the match to challenge the lions with intensity and win in front of their home crowd in the Canary Islands. Losing at Athletic means a lot for the Canaries get 99% permanent now.
But There is a nuance about Athletic that at UD Las Palmas no one dares to mention so that the fans don’t go crazy with their illusions and can be broken by a twist of fate or events such as a bad streak of results. Taboo at UD Las Palmas because the mind is focused only on permanence. This is how UD Las Palmas is in the LaLiga EA Sports classification.
And Athletic and RCD Mallorca will star on April 6 at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville in a an unprecedented Copa del Rey final which will be the 40th for the Bilbao club, the sixth in the last 15 years, and the fourth for the Balearic Islands. If the Basque team wins, the flute can be sounded for the yellows: to play again in Europe after the UEFA matches at the end of the Sixties and the beginning of the Seventies.
If Athletic wins the Copa del Rey, Real Sociedad will play directly in Europe and UD Las Palmas will be on the brink of the Conference League. A milestone for a team like UD Las Palmas who were recently promoted to LaLiga EA Sports and have the lowest budget in the Primera because it does not have the tax incentives that the Basque Economic Agreement teams and the Foral Community of Navarra have.
Achievement? Through In the 39 finals played by the Bilbao team so far, Athletic has won 23 titlesthose of 1903, 1904, 1910, 1911, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1921, 1923, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1943, 1954, 1958, 1954, 1958 1969, 1973 and 19 84. The latter will be 40 in May 5.
The Athletic thus lost in the final 16 left in 1905, 1906, 1913, 1920, 1942, 1949, 1953, 1966, 1967, 1977, 1985, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2020, 1953, 1966, 1967, 1977. against Atlético de Madrid on 1 991 and against FC Barcelona in 1998, and won the game in 2003 after defeating Recreativo de Huelva 0-3.
The Bilbao club also counts as its own in 1902, when under the name Bizkaya it won the Coronation Cup displayed in the Athletic Museum, and the runner-up finish in 1907 it achieved under the same name.
The six finals makes Athletic the second team with the most presence in the last three decades just behind Barcelona (10) and ahead of Real Madrid (4), Sevilla (3), Atlético de Madrid and Valencia (2) and Alavés, Betis, Real Sociedad, Osasuna and Mallorca, who have one each.
Source: La Verdad
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