El Cádiz de Cornellà

Regular to Sarrià and also a visitor to Montjuïc, Cádiz opens this Monday in a League match in Cornellà, where it has a special ally. Within the same municipal term, just two kilometers from the RCDE Stadium heading west and bordering Sant Joan Despí –which houses the sports city of Barcelona– is the Club Deportivo Fontsanta Fatjó. The illusion of a neighborhood, the one that gives it its name, is its motto. And Cádiz, its origin.

Born in the middle of Transition, as the occurrence of a group of kids who played in the so-called Campo Cabrero – it gives an idea of ​​its conditions -, it was in 1977 when Fontsanta was established as a club. And, both Jose Padilla, its first president, as Julius lara, a member of that initial board of directors, had one thing clear: the team had to wear a yellow shirt and blue pants. The colors of the land of these two people from Cádiz pioneers.

“They had to work a lot, it was very hard. I remember that the old field was filled with rubble. And that to train us, as it was already night, We took advantage of the lights of the streetlights and the traffic lights, and that if we wanted to shower with hot water we had to go find butane cylinders “, recounts in AS the current president, Joaquín Morales.

The illusion of the neighborhood referred to in the slogan of the Fontsanta Fatjó are not empty words. “It was the illusion because the kids could play soccer and have a good time. So, it was our only fun. And now, we keep that spirit. We don’t want to stop being a neighborhood team“, says Morales, as much as he does not hide the pride of the growth” by leaps and bounds “of his women’s section.

The Catalan club with the most women’s teams

“Are the club with the most women’s teams in all of Catalonia, 20. The amateur is in the National League and many players from the quarry come to look for them Barcelona – as Emma Ramírez, U19 international and who now plays on loan at Real Sociedad – or Espanyol “, he presumes.” And it is not a thing of the moment, it is not a fashion, but we have been promoting women’s football for two decades“, he claims.

Proud would be its Cadista founders of this Fontsanta Fatjó that, If the Cornellà de Llobregat City Council approves it, it will soon be able to count on a few meters away, in the same neighborhood, with the new Espanyol sports city. “A great option. And even more so for the parents of our grassroots football players, who often say no to the Parakeet club as they do not have the material possibilities of crossing Barcelona daily to go to training,” even Dani Jarque, who stands in Sant Adrià del Besòs.

With that illusion of the neighborhood in style, and with Espanyol as an illustrious neighbor and with aspirations for something more, El Fontsanta Fatjó has something as clear as those unforgettable people from Cádiz, José Padilla and Julio Lara. “The yellow and blue of Cádiz are lifelong, and they will continue to be so in our club“Word of the president.