Yesterday the Canarian derby moved Siete Palmas for a moment to those days where Covid-19 was not a concern, where it did not exist. Completely. Only the masks were left over. For the first time everything knew how to live without more, which is not little, with its small great joys, symbolized in one of those goals that are saved forever: in the discount, to be worth a victory and against your greatest rival.
Everything in a magical, healthy environment, except for the usual exalted ones, who broke the harmony with Tenerife’s goal. They are beings that are superfluous in football and in society. The rest, impeccable.
“We have been here all afternoon and we have even been invited to some beer, a colleague, brotherhood, what should be,” said Diego Chinea, who was walking with his friends Salva Hernández and David García, all wearing the Tenerife jersey. by Tribuna. «We are all Canaries, there are 90 minutes of passion and then that’s it. And more now with everything that is happening on La Palma », they stressed.
Precisely, the most emotional moment of the derby in the stands took place in the 8th minute of the game. An instant that was not chosen at random: eight islands and a hug without colors or trenches on La Palma and the difficult days it has lived since the volcano erupted in Cumbre Vieja. All the applause from the Gran Canaria Stadium, from each sector, was fused with a magical symbolism. It was the show of affection for sport, for society, for a single pulse, as in the song, with La Palma. Because although there were two hobbies, that was the applause of all the Canarian people.
And the minute of silence arrived. Jesé exchanged his role with Jonathan Viera: he attended the ’10’ and scored the ’21’. Flag up and to the review. An interruptus goal. The one who jumped up to celebrate sat down, sat down in the armchair again. The questions came, whether or not it was offside. The murmur began in the stands when the first television replay carried over the airwaves to the radios a feeling that was confirmed shortly after: Jonathan Viera was enabled by Carlos Ruiz. Prieto Iglesias, meanwhile, listened to the earpiece. In the VAR room the lines were drawn and there was already a verdict: goal.
Viera ran, Jesé ran and they all ran. Madness in Gran Canaria. Now there were reasons to jump. Around the corner, as if nothing had happened, as if that minute of bewilderment, of tension, was released in a race with the flavor of freedom. Momentazo and start again.
The stands were animated. He pulled and screamed. The sarcasm appeared with a ‘I can’t hear you, chicharro you can’t hear’ before the time of the sandwich. Then it was the blue and white turn.
But the final climax of the day was a fireworks of total ecstasy, in its purest definition. A goal in the discount of those that taste like a piece of heaven. “To be able to be here, to be able to see this environment, they owed it to us,” said Gustavo, who was with Vanesa as a family, who made his football debut – “He hadn’t even gone to the Insular” -, Samuel and Sergio, the two of them little ones. A day they will not forget. Because they left the Gran Canaria Stadium convinced that you can live without football, but that life is something better with it.
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The Gran Canaria Stadium had its best entry since UD fell to the Second Division in 2018. The 25,887 spectators who gathered at the Gran Canaria Stadium left the stamp of the best days of the Siete Palmas venue. There was a desire for football and it was clearly noticed. In the last derby with an audience, that of the 2019-2020 season, 21,464 fans gathered in Gran Canaria. A season earlier, the figure stayed at 19,190. This time, UD achieved its goal of recruiting more than 25,000 people. In fact, a few hours before the opening whistle, the yellow fans finished with the tickets in the South stands, with the Curva and the Nascent already sold out. On the left, a panoramic view of how the Stadium looked during the crash. To the right. the banner with Fuerza La Palma that appeared in the background of Naciente in the 8th minute of the game. Below, several snapshots of the pre-match by Fondos de Segura and surroundings. |
