Among all the players who survive in this edition of the Cup, only four can boast of having lifted the trophy. Well, actually only one has it in his showcase having been a main protagonist: Raul Garcia. Yes because Illarramendi, currently in the Real society, he won it with him Real Madrid but he had very little to Ancelotti. In fact, he played only five minutes in the final that Madrid won in Mestalla in 2014 before the Barça (1-2), that of the race of Bale before Bartra. He was his partner Diego Llorente, a very young boy from Castile who looked out for the first team sporadically. Now try to grab the title with the txuri-urdin. Something similar happened to Montoro, currently in the Pomegranate, in 2008, when he was at the Mestalla but he also acted in a match with Valencia, so he proudly has part of the Copa che before the Getafe in the Calderon. Isak (Germany), Monreal (England), Januzaj (England), Machís (Venezuela) and Gonalons (France) have won them in other countries and look forward to doing so in Spain.
Raúl García has two Europa League, one League, one Cup, and one European Super Cup and one in Spain. He raised the Cup in 2013, against Real Madrid in the Santiago Bernabeu, in one of the few final losses lost by the meringues in the present century. Navarre midfielder jumped into the field in minute 113 replacing Koke. He played a total of 47 games that season and scored nine goals among all competitions.
His challenge is capitalized: he knows a path he wants to take with another club, an Athletic that has not lifted the Cup for 36 years. Raúl touched the idyll with this trophy in the 2003-04 season, when he lost the final in the youth category, at the hands of the coach Cuckoo Ziganda and with colleagues like Monreal, before the Spanish. In the semifinals they eliminated the Barcelona from Messi.
Since he made the leap to First from the hand of Javier Aguirre On October 24, 2004 in a 0-3 defeat, against Barcelona, he has not stopped giving lessons in ambition. At 33, the Navarrese will play his 200 official match with Athletic today. He has 56 goals. That figure makes him the fourth top scorer of the current squad behind Aduriz (172), Muniain (59) and Williams (58). In addition, he is the second player with the most victories in the history of LaLiga (221) without having played either in Madrid or Barça.