Step by step. This is how Ourense CF’s cup history was built this campaign. The league championship in Second RFEF allowed him, in addition to a promotion, to get the ticket for the KO tournament on his own merits. The initial stop was Guijuelolast October 29. The team had just achieved its first victory in the First RFEF in Bilbao. One less weight off your shoulders before prolonging the smiles at the Municipal Luis Ramos in Salamanca. Goals from Di Renzo and Jairo helped them beat a lower category rival 1-2.
The blue ones left the children’s table and went to the adults’ table. The draw was going to leave a more important rival and in O Couto for the thirty-second final. And it was Deportivo. Regional derby against a Second Division with First Division history. The Ourense stadium was dressed in the best local finery and visitors to witness incalculable joy. Ángel Sánchez’s goal in the 87th minute completed the surprise. More wood for a team that, at the same time, was resurrecting in the league little by little.
Again, draw. A jackpot could fall for the sixteenth. The fattest. But it passed by. The winner was Valladolid, who arrived in Ourense hours before the Three Kings Parade. But the gift went to the blues. Goal-scoring match against a top-flight rival that took the lead on two occasions. It was not a problem for Pablo López’s men who, with Jairo, Jerin and Ángel Sánchez himself as gunners, dispatched the Pucelanos 3-2 to the ecstasy of the local parish and the cry of “yes we can” turned into ” Yes, it was possible.”
Again paying attention to the drums. Draw for the quarter-finals and the national television channels pending from Oira. The biggest ones dodged the Ourense CF ball, but Valencia was no small feat. A League and Cup champion club in Spain that twice touched European glory, although today it is not going through its best moment. Great atmosphere guaranteed, the extra stands on stage and the blue emotions and illusions on the surface. Because the Cup is a very real dream for the humble footballers. The format equalizes the forces. And Ourense CF showed that it was possible. From the rain in Guijuelo to the party of a cold January night in O Couto. Football, the most important thing of the least important things.
