If he can boast of something Lugo It’s captains. Carlos Pita Y Fernando Seoane they symbolize like no one else the humble and at the same time fighting spirit that has always characterized the albivermello team, and at the same time have shown absolute fidelity to some colors who know how to represent like no one else. A performance that goes far beyond the football field and that permeates all layers of the teamFrom a clothing with family fame in which they are the bosses to a hobby that adores them and recognizes them as symbols even above that as players.
This Sunday Carlos Pita returned to the starting lineup against Amorebieta. He played 76 minutes in which he also scored the albivermello goal. But above all this, this match will go down in history for being the number 400 of the midfielder Coruña with the albivermella t-shirt. Pita has played 314 games for Lugo in the Second Division, 71 in Second B, nine in the different category promotion playoffs and six in the Copa del Rey. Some numbers that give an idea of what the captain means for Lugo. Nails figures within the reach of very few that make it living history of the club if it wasn’t already.
The other albivermello captain is not far behind, Fernando Seoane. The one from Ames, who also enjoyed minutes against Amorebieta, has become the active player with more games in Second Division. Seoane adds no less than 420 games in the silver category, the most that has not yet hung up his boots. own Galician Football Federation paid tribute to him this Monday by giving him at the Anxo Carro a memorial plaque. Both the president of CD Lugo, Tino Saqués, and the president of the Galician club, Rafael Louzán, participated in this act. In addition to being the active player with the most matches in the Second Division, Seoane is also the third with more participations and we add to those already retired. Ahead he only has Quique Martín, with 425 and a stone’s throw away, and the eternal Nino, who is unattainable with 571 games.