The winger is in Budapest, he experiences the final as a fan and enjoys the atmosphere on the street and in the Fanzone since yesterday
Coke Andujar is champion of three Europa League with Sevilla and more than one protagonist in one of them, in the fifth. Sevilla lost 0-1 to Liverpool at half time, it was time to come back. Coke captained that team and drew stripes. Psychologically and materially, as two of his goals gave Sevilla the arms to lift the fifth trophy in a league of which he is the absolute king. He is also in the final tonight, in a different way. He speaks to Goal.com from the streets of Budapest where he is. “I came with a brother and a friend. I already had the tickets and the hotel, only for lack of buying, I had looked at it and all I had to do was press the button, nothing more than the referee whistled in the semi-final ”.
Coke is not just Sevilla history, he is another fan who will do everything he can to help the team tonight. “I wanted to experience a final from the other side, spend the day on the street with the fans and go through the Fan Zone to see what life is like from this perspective.”
The winger could be one of the more than authorized voices to know the type of idyll that the Nervión entity has with this league, although he is also not good in words to describe what the Europa League is for Sevilla, because it is “something that goes beyond what can be explained. A lot has happened in this game, that explains it. For Seville it is something very, very special, fiction loves it like no other, there are outings and a special emotion because Seville has made it very big and the idyll continues. Hopefully I’ll get it tonight.”
For a team, the final begins long before dawn. For Coke as the referee whistled the semi-final final. “Since the referee whistled the end of the game in the semi-finals, you have a feeling in your body that you have something very important to live for. Then all the time that passes is in your head, in your nerves, and on the day of the final you feel that you make a lot of people happy. A unique feeling that you feel important, that people appreciate you, that it is your passion. Then, of course, for you and your family, it’s something you don’t know if you’ll ever live when you’re little, and when you do, you feel very grateful and you have to give everything for the outcome to be positive.”
As for the party, Coke thinks so “It will be very close” as they are two strong teams. As an expert in finals, he thinks the details will be key and hopes that “Seville will continue the line of confidence and belief in themselves that they have been following for some time. I’m not saying he’s a favourite, but if he’s at a good level he’ll have a lot of options to take it away,” he assures.
The club comes to this final with the motto ‘No one loves her more than us’, something Coke knows all too well. He was one of the architects of that expression that became a religion because “He has shown in this match that he puts all the meat on the grill and that this match has made him great.” And it is that unique moments have been experienced, such as “a goalkeeper who scores a goal to win a draw, that a throw-in puts you in a final when all seemed lost. They are unforgettable moments that make it a unique idyll and that Sevilla and all Sevilla fans are very excited about”.
Finally, Coke remembers that moment of raising the cup, which every Sevilla fan expects tonight, a magical moment since “ It’s unique. All the newspapers come out and raise it to the air with all the people that are in the stadium. You make many people happy and you personally remember all those moments you shared with your colleagues. From your family who can live there with you, who is always distant and suffers a lot. They deserve to enjoy that moment too, just like you do, so it’s something I got to raise three times and enjoy with my teammates and family. It’s something indelible,” he says.
Source: Goal