The Galician team is not yet 80 years old and dreams of making an impression against the Ché team.
Valencia CF visits Arosa SC this Tuesday for the second round of the 2023-24 Copa del Rey. Rubén Baraja’s side have just lost to Girona in Montilivi and are forced to recover in Villagarcía de Arosa, where they face a rival from the RFEF Third Division. A Galician team that experiences an unforgettable day from the start.
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History of Arosa SC, rival of Valencia in the Copa del Rey: when it was founded and in which category it plays
It’s the norm. When such a small team plays the Copa del Rey, people experience it as a world final. And much more when there is a club as big as Valencia in front of you. This is happening to the Arosa Cultural Society, in the town of Vilagarcía de Arousa, in the province of Pontevedra.
Founded in 1945, it currently plays in the RFEF Third Division and is the Galician team with the most participations in the Third Division, also with almost 2,000 members. Miguez Iglesias’ boys defeated Ourense 1-0 in their last presentation (Saturday 2/12) and achieved 20 points in 13 games (sixth place in the standings).
It is less than 80 years old and its history is perfectly summarized on the official website. Borrowing the name Arosa from a group of friends who had committed themselves to competing in the Southern Group of the Regional Series between 1941 and 1943 until the Galician Federation vetoed them due to a lack of field and club records, and adding the slogan of Cultural Society, the promoters of the future main football reference in O Salnés gathered “in the town of Vilagarcía de Arousa on December 23, 1945, at twelve o’clock in the morning”, to proceed to the founding meeting of the Harlequinado club.
Manuel Porto He would be the entity’s first president and serve as its right-hand man Mr. Celso Callón who would eventually replace Porto as president in the following decade. That would be the longest-serving president Manuel Gallego, member of the first board of directors and player.
The club’s founding statutes reflect the resolution October 1945, the administrative procedures for the creation of the club, as well as the approval of the lease with Dª María de los Desamparados of the farm on which the plot is located To Lomba for about 5,000 pesetas. In that minute the design of the current harlequin shirt was also agreed upon and members were admitted for a fee of up to 5 pesetas.
The first match as Arosa SC was played in A Lomba January 27, 1946, a friendly match against Santiago with the score 1-1.
The first months of life, as Arosa SC reports on its website, give rise to the dispute over matches framed in the Galicia Amateur Cup tournament. Now that the club was operational, all that was left to do was debut in the official competition. The victory (3-1) against Cultural de Pontevedra would serve to inaugurate the lightweight competition, then the Galician Regional Series A, on November 3, 1946.
Three seasons were enough to reach the national league and participate in the championship of the Second Division in 49-50, framed in Group I, “northern group”. A tough season prevented the team from retaining the category and dropping down to the third national division, a category in which it currently plays, for 46 seasons. 75 years have passed since then.
Always safeAccording to Arosa SC’s official website, during this time more than 800 players have played official matches wearing the Harlequin shirt and there were more than 60 first team coaches of the club. This data should be added to the 23 presidents who governed the board and the more than 300 managers who worked to achieve it.
QWhat capacity does it have and how many spectators can fit in the A Lomba Stadium, where Arosa SC plays?
The team plays its home games at the A Lomba Stadium, a municipal building located in Villagarcía de Arosa, in the province of Pontevedra, Galicia. It was inaugurated in 1946
On January 27, 1946, the field was officially inaugurated during a clash between Arosa and Santiago (1-1). The first official match was played on November 3, 1946 between Arosa and Sociedad Cultural de Pontevedra (3-1).
Why Arosa SC will play the second round of the Copa del Rey if they lost 0-3 to Granada
Arosa SC already played the current edition of the Copa del Rey at the A Lomba Stadium and lost 0-3 to Granada. However, he moved on to the next instance.
On 7 November, Granada were eliminated from the Copa del Rey, even though they had won their match against Arosa SC on the pitch. The reason? Nasrid’s team made an incorrect line-up by including goalkeeper Adri López among the starters.
Adri López, over 23 years old and a player for Recreativo Granada, could not participate in the cup, according to the RFEF, because it was a non-professional tournament. Arosa denounced and Granada was eliminated due to incorrect line-up.
The use of Adri López is against the regulations of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), because he is a goalkeeper over 23 years old (he is already 24) and is registered in the ‘B’ team, Recreativo Granada , and which has a non-professional competition such as the Copa del Rey.
The tournament’s competition rules make it clear that the Copa del Rey is not considered a professional championship. “The Spanish Championship/HM the King’s Cup, the Spanish Super Cup and the Federation Cup are official competitions of state level and non-professional in character at amateur level, where the sporting ownership corresponds exclusively to the Royal Spanish Football Federation.”
Their line-up in LaLiga would be correct, but not in the KO tournament. The strange thing is that Granada had already taken a risk with the same situation a year ago, when Adri López, who was also goalkeeper in the Copa del Rey, played in both matches of the last edition while he was also more than 23 years old. although in that case there was no sanction because no one reported it.
A useless route
On a sporting level, Granada defeated Arosa 0-3 with goals from José Callejón, Shon Weissman and Famara Diédhiou. It didn’t help him advance to the round.
Source: Goal
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