The pandemic has disrupted all of our plans. Any forecast was blown up a year ago, taking with it many dreams. For example, the thousands of highlights who had their trips to Seville outlined and that on Saturday they will see the final from their homes. Or that of some Real footballers who saw themselves lifting a title and who will now have to watch the final on television, surely with healthy envy, like just another fan.
Five are the players who last season were in the txuri urdin squad and who now play with another shield on their chest or have retired. Are Willian
Joseph (Watford), Martin
Odegaard (Arsenal), Diego
Llorente (Leeds United), Andoni
Zubiaurre (Cultural Leonesa) and David
Zurutuza (retired).
He also participated in the Cup, scoring even a goal, Ruben
Brown who played the first game in Palencia against Becerril, where he made it 0-4. However, in the winter market, the Rioja signed for Girondins de Bordeaux, which would have already taken him away from the final originally planned.
But just as there are players who have lost their opportunity, there are others who were not and who can now be part of history. The most curious cases are those of Jon
Guridi, Martin
Merquelanz, Modibo
Sagnan and Carlos
Fernandez. The four of them came to play in the Cup semifinals with other teams, as it happened that the three loaned by Real to Mirandés acted as opponents on the field. Carlos
Fernandez He played for Granada and scored against Athletic in the second leg of the semifinals and on Saturday he will again face the Bilbao team dressed in txuri urdin.
TO David
Silva, Gaizka
Ayesa and Martin
Zubimendi The postponement of the final has also benefited them. The case of the San Sebastian midfielder is also curious because he did not debut with the first team until after confinement, in June, so it seems difficult that he would have been part of the call for the previous final.
The same in Athletic
Logically the same thing happens in Athletic. To start your two coaches, Gaizka Garitano and Patxi
Ferreira, will not sit on the bench after being dismissed. Besides them, Iñigo
Cordova, Kenan
Kodro, Gaizka
Larrazabal, Beñat
Etxeberria, Mikel
Saint
Joseph and the retired Aritz
Aduriz They will not be in a final in which they will be Alex
Berenguer, Oier
Zarraga and Iñigo
Vincent, the latter player who like Guridi, Merquelanz and Sagnan He played the semifinals of the last edition with Mirandés.