There was no disappointment. Again, and they go ten consecutive years, La Chasner gas stationa he dealt luck in the Extraordinary Christmas Lottery Draw. On this occasion, there are already four, it distributed 3.2 million euros of the Jackpot among those who acquired the eight tenths issued by its machines. At 10:21 a.m. yesterday, the image of the mornings of each December 22 of the last decade was reproduced and “What a Chasnera boat!” was heard, while the businessman José Miguel González and sons were obedient.
Located at kilometer 54 of the Autopista del Sur, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, This Repsol gas station is one of the most important points of sale in the country. “I couldn’t say what position we are in or how much we have sold this Christmas,” explains José Ángel’s father, Miriam and Aarón González, who put a lot of effort into highlighting and thanking “the effort of the workers. We are a family”, summed up the patriarch.
Welcome to La Chasnera that of Román Borges, who leads the Onda team at the entrance door to the establishment Tenerife that each year broadcasts the raffle live, determined to sell the excellence of the insular climate: «It is half past eight, one hour less in Canary Islands and thirteen degrees more than in Madrid ». In this enclave, the trickle of users who come to refuel, drink coffee, have breakfast or play is constant, but without crowds.
And they struck 9:24 (the first prize of the day, 62391, a fifth), and 9:27 (04074, second prize), and 9:35 (43696, another fifth), and 10:09 (54289 sounds, a fourth) and 10:10 (88509 goes off, a fifth more) and the atmosphere did not take off. He did it when Román Borges proclaimed “he fell here.” It was 10:21 a.m. and the González brothers and their workers hugged and congratulated each other. From there, televisions and radios took over the stage and even staged the toast with champagne for the luck obtained and distributed.
“There is nothing left of the 300,000 euros that I won with three tenths in 2013”
That moment was enough to save the day and the season. There were eight tickets and 3.2 million of the Jackpot. The legend of La Chasnera continues to grow. “It’s important to us. We have been working hard for six months”, details José Ángel González, manager of this gas station and the one that the González Group has on the other side of the highway.
“This success is not easy at all”, but he acknowledges that “we are very lucky, because we have been selling Christmas lottery for six months and receiving the trust of the people. That is to be thankful for. And you have to trust luck.
Since 2013. It all started in 2013, when La Chasnera fully sold the second prize in the draw, 79712, distributing 200 million euros. The only occasion in which the property was also graced, like the squad, among which the number was distributed. José Miguel González remembered him yesterday in the midst of joy. «We had a pinch in 2013, but the rest has been to distribute prizes. What happened that year was outrageous, ”says the businessman. From then on, every Christmas luck returns punctually to this supplier of Granadilla de Abona.
“It’s important to us. We have been working hard on this draw for six months »
The first fat of four. A tenth of 71198 is the first Christmas Jackpot prize in the history of this gas station. The following year there were 26 tickets distributed from the first prize of the Christmas raffle, number 03347. In the year of the covid (2020), La Chasnera sold two tenths of number 72897. Yesterday luck turned ten years in this place with the eight tickets of 05490. “As we have calculated, in this time we have distributed some 300 million euros in prizes”, not only from the lottery and not only from the Christmas and Epiphany lottery.
Child’s raffle. While the children of San Ildefonso continued on the screen filling wires with balls awarded with a thousand euros each, clients in search of their fortune entered the premises. To do this, they bet on «a Gordo and a Primitiva”, asked a construction worker; or “a number for the Child”They were looking for many and many others. “And now that El Niño is coming, what number are we asking for?” they ask José Miguel González. «I really like a five, but anyone can come out because they are all in the hype. You see today, zero is one of those that comes out the least and it came out », he replies.
«We have been selling Christmas lottery for six months and receiving the trust of the people»
Jorge Gorrin. in cvery December 22 is a unique moment. This time it was the presence of someone who is very dear to La Chasnera. His name is Jorge Gorrín and he was one of the lucky ones with three tenths of the number 79712, that made him win 375,000 euros ten years ago. The chronicle of the moment tells that he “arrived touching the track of his convertible BMW” of gray color. “There is nothing left of that”, because “you have to enjoy life and whoever comes after you find it as he can”. And he attests. “The first thing I did was travel half the world and now, if I take something else, the other half,” he says jovially after singing to luck and La Chasnera as a Christmas carol. That luck that made him the winner of the ONCE salary. “This year I have not bought anything,” he says. Why? «Because I am waiting for the Euromillions. He is the one who resolves, the one who will make me leave my family resolved ». And he almost says goodbye: “My name is Jorge Gorrín Arzola, to serve God and you and if he has a penny, give it to me, or a thousand euros.” And he starts singing “for Mexico” with Las mañanitas.
Back to the draw Raúl Montis arrives, commercial delegate of the State Lotteries and State Betting Society (Selae). This makes it official that La Chasnera sold part of the Gordo de Navidad prize. Again the champagne, the congratulations, the photos and the posters with the 05490. Montis continues his route towards Callao Salvaje and in La Chasnera they wait for the last prizes that are yet to come out, in case something else falls. It was not so. Now it’s time to wait for the Children’s draw, on January 6.
