Through the big door. investing it Scored eight goals for Barça: four at Montjuïc and four at Montilivi. Surpassing all their dreams to settle in the Champions League for the first time in their history. Putting himself on the world football map with greatness. The entire football world already knows who Girona is. This team that never gives up, that fights, that comes back again and again, that attacks and that plays like a movie. With indestructible faith, with commendable magic and with an impressive ability to win and to win in an entertaining way.
Girona matches are like life. They go around a lot, they are a tug-of-war, a roller coaster of emotions. But unlike life, in which the sweet and the bitter are mixed, everything has been a fairy tale for Míchel’s team since August. At first you might think it was a mirage. Then, that it was the typical revelation team that would collapse. But week after week they exceeded expectations until they lived days as leaders. To the point where it was thought that he could fight for the championship. It is true that away from home he has lowered the tone, but it is also true that with another less unapproachable leader that Madrid could have reached the end with title options.
Losing them did not break down Girona, who celebrated qualifying for the Champions League with magnificence. With the footballers wearing a commemorative shirt, with Montilivi jumping and dancing, in a festive mood, and with the music of the Champions League playing at full blast.
Before the match, Míchel declared: “If we win, our fans will be happy because there are many boys who will be able to go home and tell their parents and grandparents that they are from Barça and tell them that they are from the second team in Catalonia” .
At the moment it is like this because Girona is ahead of Barcelona in the standings and if the championship ends as it is now, they will also play the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia to the detriment of the Barcelona fans.
Everything seems possible for this Girona, which two years ago was struggling to get into the First Division and which has now established itself in the nobility of European football. What an immeasurable merit of this tamer of dreams that is Míchel, who adapted like a glove to the culture of Girona, who embraced Catalan with affection and who immediately put the whole city in his pocket. An excited Míchel who fifteen seconds before the end of the match went to the stands to kiss his family. “Míchel català”, the fans sang to him several times.
He had enormous reasons to be happy, including the fact that he had bet on the return of Porto to Girona on the last day of the market. The club also had the option of getting Keita Baldé, but the coach preferred Portu, a footballer who had already been at a previous stage at the club, dancing between Second and First, but always with modesty. The brave Porto certified the reaction against Barcelona as a cyclone. An unbeatable example of Girona’s transformation.
Míchel’s team had just written a period epic. Because as he repeats, it’s not just about the what but the how, so that people remember that this League, beyond Madrid’s title (a fact that has been repeated ad nauseam in history), is the League of Girona In its fourth season in the elite of Spanish football, the Montilivi team has made a great leap forward.
With 23 victories and 73 goals in 34 games (more than two goals per match), the Girona of the gunner Dóvbik, of players who seemed to be of no value to other teams such as David López, Miguel Gutiérrez or Eric Garcia and the phenomenal Savinho , has achieved the unthinkable. And in what way
