Girona FC: what the week has in store for L. a. Is the League club involved in a meteoric rise?

In next season’s meteoric campaign, the Spanish team Girona will have to evolve in the Champions League.

Ascending to the highest heights of football demands situations of the senses, and Girona’s security at this level is already being closely examined.

Iván Quirós, co-founder of Girona’s supporters club, Penya Jandrista GFC, first attended matches at the Estadi Montilivi in ​​the late 1980s, when the team was in the Spanish third tier. He told BBC Game that qualifying for the European elite was “an unattainable and impossible dream come true”.

It has been a dream seven years in the making, since the funding in 2017 of the Town Soccer Crew (CFG), a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi United Crew, which has stakes in 13 clubs on five continents, including ownership of Premier League champions. League. City of Manchester.

The Catalan club entered the second division in 2008, after 49 years of absence from professional football, but was promoted to the Spanish first division on the first date in 2017.

They finished third in Los Angeles. Last season of the League, just four points behind second-placed Barcelona. He scored 85 goals, only two less than champions Real Madrid.

Catalan journalist They supported the residents of Barcelona.

The Girona stadium can only seat around 9,600 spectators in the Champions League, due to UEFA regulations. Even one of these small towns is a cry from when masses of enthusiasts simply appeared in the countryside at the beginning of the century.

Jan Nadal Colomé, 19, who has had a season ticket since 2012, remembers how fans expected to “walk all over the stadium” when he first attended games.

“We could switch to the other goal when they were attacking or there was a penalty,” he mentioned.

On Wednesday, the Montilivi stadium will host Girona’s third match in the Champions League, against Slovak side Slovan Bratislava. It is worth mentioning that this one is quite remarkable.

Girona suffered a 1-0 defeat in their first game against Paris St-Germain, through an own goal in the 90th minute. That was followed by a 3-2 defeat at home to Feyenoord, in which Girona missed a penalty and scored two more own goals, equaling Fenerbahce’s record for most own goals in a Champions League season.

Next 10 L. a. League suits, coach Michel’s team is 12th in the table.

Miquel Agut Riera, who comments on Girona’s outfits, stated that their qualification for the Champions League came “too quickly.”