Liga Santander: The incredible history of the Unionists of Salamanca: of the provincial league to play against Real Madrid | LaLiga Santander 2019

Fans of the disappeared Salamanca founded in 2013 the Unionists, which they manage their own partners.

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You can change your face, home, family, work, even woman or religion, but there is one thing that as much as you try you can never give up. You can't change your passion, the passion for a football team. This phrase, fundamental in the Oscar-winning Argentine film The secret of his eyes, perfectly reflects the raison d'être of a club, the Unionists of Salamanca, the rival that yesterday's draw for Cup assign to Real Madrid. The phrase of the novelist Eduardo Sacheri has his explanation in a date and in the following days. More specifically on June 18, 2013, when the resolution was dissolved by Salamanca Sports Union. That day the chronicle of an announced death was certified, that of a historical club that was 90 years old, in which they played Jorge D'Alessandro, Vctor Soler, Pauleta or a youth Carlos Vela and what competed 12 seasons in First Division, becoming seventh in 1975. A historic club that the Night of Kings of 1998 defeats in the Cup 4-3 to Barcelona, ​​a feat that will repeat on May 17 of the same year winning at Camp Nou 1-4 to achieve permanence .

That death of the Salamanca Sports Union was followed by an illusion. That of some fans who, tired of the psima gestin suffered, decided to honor the club of their loves. And they did it in an unusual way: creating a new team to honor the memory of the one they saw disappear, the same as the last presidents, among them Juan Jos Hidalgo, mistreated moved by personal interests until causing it to disappear, then try Successfully buy a place in Second B.

Among these founding fans was Javier Weaver, president until 2017 and now executive vice president of a club created from a clear principle: that of not supplanting the disappeared but only honoring it, as indicated by statutes that also establish that the decisions and symbols of the club must be adopted by its members. Serve as an example his shield, chosen in popular voting and that has a bull and a ball as protagonists. The horned as a symbol of the province and the classic ball as a hope of a romantic football, with two slogans: In Memoriam UDS 1923-2013 and Ad Astra per spera (To the stars along the most complicated road) with nine stars, a symbol of the city and the nine decades of life of the Salamanca Sports Union.

What you probably can't imagine even the fans who founded it is that this romantic spirit was going to lead to a project as successful as exemplary and so transparent as solid. This is demonstrated by the brief and brilliant history of Unionistas, a sporting success that began in the lowest category of amateur football and now has the social recognition of the entire province. Since its founding in August 2013, Unionists only took a year to start playing in the provincial division of Salamanca.

After the ascent of category, the City Council authorized the club to play their matches at the Ciudad de Salamanca Stadium, popularly known as Las Pistas del Helmntico, annex to the historical stadium of the city. The season ended with a new ascent, from Regional to Third Division, category in which milit two years to achieve the desired landing in Second B, June 23, 2018. The debut in the third category of Spanish football came with a double prize: the permanence, with a very creditable ninth place, and access to the new Copa del Rey, where after overcoming two rounds, eliminating last Sunday the Deportivo, measured at Real Madrid The next Wednesday.

Parallel to sporting successes, the social success of a club that with only six years of existence already has 2,800 members and has up to Peas abroad, for example one in the English town of Bath. This important draft in Salamanca is also reflected in the quarry, since Unionistas has 20 teams from prebenjamines to youth. It is also part of the Popular Soccer Club, a phenomenon that is characterized by bringing together teams that intend to democratize and bring football practice and management closer to the fans.