It will take a long time for Elda to forget the year 2023. Eldense Sports Club has closed one of the most important years in its centenary history. The Barça team, which was packed to the rafters at the Nuevo Pepico Amat stadium on June 15, realized its dream of returning to the Second League and professional football after 60 years. It was an epic evening filled with strong emotions. Fernando Estévez’s side secured their third straight promotion after extra time against Raúl González Blanco’s Real Madrid Castilla. Eldenses were at the top of the standings for almost the entire season, but at the last minute they escaped the opportunity for direct promotion. Relegated to play-offs. They beat Celta B in the first round and showed they had the better classification against the white reserve team in the final; The tie is third and with Juanto Ortuño’s historic goal in the 114th minute of extra time. Elda took to the streets to celebrate and is enjoying the LaLiga Hypermotión this season, where Eldense finished the first round in fifteenth place, four points ahead of the places, so he is on the right track to achieve his goal.
The opposite happened to Elche, who failed to achieve anything in the season celebrating their centenary, falling to the bottom of the standings after a terrible season and having a disappointing season. Three coaches: Francisco, Pablo Machín and, in the final episode, Sebastián Beccacece; They failed to pull off the miracle and after three seasons enjoying the elite of Spanish football, they were relegated back to the Second Division. The Argentinian coach came to prepare the team for the silver category, but the second half of 2023, in which Franjiverdes started as one of the biggest favorites in the fight for promotion, was not very good and cannot achieve the goals. marked. The men from Elche never managed to finish in the top six and after an extremely uneven first round, they finished in a discreet thirteenth place, four points away from the promotion play-off positions. As far as those from Elda are concerned, 2023 has been a year full of smiles and tears for Eldense and Elche, who will welcome the new year 2024 with the mission of achieving permanence and settling in the Second League; and try to stage a comeback in the second round that will allow the people of Elche to return to the First League.
Hercules’ countless crossings across the turbulent sea of illusion
It was supposed to be Paco Peña’s first year at the helm of the Hércules sports field, but neither the election of Ángel Rodríguez nor his replacement, Lolo Escobar, proved worth fixing a project that entered 2023 with moderate hopes of success. climb. The Christmas break was bad again and the winter market failed to solve the problems looming over a team with no defensive framework, no productive capacity and an overabundance of toxic assets. The result, which included the risk of falling into the fifth category, forced us to start from scratch again. Fate wanted the coach chosen to run the locker room to flee to Algeciras in search of an understanding he said he did not feel in Alicante. He left, and Rubén Torrecilla began to rewrite a story that for the moment has caused no Herculaneum to bid farewell to the year that ended with sadness, with a radical change, with the beginning of something…?
HLA Alicante continues its sporting and social growth process
HLA Alicante continued to grow both sportively and socially throughout 2023. Although the Alicante team achieved their goal of promoting the team to the “play-offs”, they could not complete the season in the best way. The problem was that the scariest of his rivals was Pedro Rivero’s Palencia, which ended his hopes of advancing to the next round. After that, the club, headed by Daniel Adriasola, opened a clean slate. Following the departure of Luis Arbalejo, he hired Asier Alonso as sporting director and brought in Araberri and Antonio Pérez Caínzos, whom he had met at Real Betis Baloncesto. Only Edu Gatell from the previous squad continued and the team finished the year going from less to more. The entity continues to grow socially, with more and more people joining Pedro Ferrándiz, as well as more and more acts of solidarity.