Barça already knows its next rival for the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey. This is the UD Barbastro that belongs to a town of 16,000 inhabitants located in Huesca, Aragón. The Huesca club currently competes in Group 2 of the Second RFEF and occupies tenth position in the fourth category of Spanish football with 18 points. Their record to date so far this season is four wins, six draws and five losses.
Óscar Pérez, captain of UD Barbastro, has been “very delighted” that his team can see each other with the Barbastro team: “It’s amazing to play a game like this and be able to experience it. We are already looking forward to the day and being able to enjoy it. It’s going to be a game to enjoy,” commented the player after the draw held in Las Rozas.
“I want to thank the board for making this club survive when it was bad. For the fans of the area and the province to be able to experience a match like this is very nice,” added ‘Perso’ about the fact that Barbastro face a First Division team for the second time in its 89-year history. “He is one of the greats,” he said about the culé team.
Before, he had already done it a week ago against Almería, a team he eliminated in the thirty-second round of the KO competition (1-0). However, the Huesca team, which was renamed with its current name in 1974, has historically been installed the longest in the Third Division: a category in which it has lasted for 46 seasons.
In it he has been proclaimed champion of group XVI on two occasions (1988-89 and 2004-05) and runner-up up to five times in the 90s, as well as in the 2005-06 and 2007-08 campaigns. Likewise, the Huesca team has had a leading role, winning or falling short of being champions in regional competitions such as the RFEF Cup or the Aragón Preferential Regional Championships.
Barbastro has been in the Second RFEF for three years and was close to going up to the Second Division in 1964 and 1967, finishing in fourth position in the classification. On the other hand, he has participated nine times in the Copa del Rey, a competition in which his best result to date was the first round on four occasions.
However, Dani Martínez’s team will face the King of Cups next January in a single match with the dream of continuing to compete and advance rounds in the KO tournament. The Barbastro coach has shown his satisfaction with the match against Xavi Hernández’s team for the round of 32 and is aware that “in football there is nothing impossible.” To play.
