It’s Sunday and the alarm clock is ringing. And as for the past ten years, the Hercules fan feels like Bill Murray in “The Trap of Time.” Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” continues to play. One disappointing season after another, Herculanismo wakes up to a new day with an elite team. And it’s been too many days already. So much that the illusion is eroded based on constant failures. Yet deep down there is hope that one day he will wake up and see that the nightmare is over..

The entity from Alicante is looking for the special Andie MacDowell who can save him from the frustrations, lack of ambition and disappointments of recent years, to get out of the endless loop that Hercules seems to have entered. Recent castings did not bear fruit: Sergio Mora, Manolo Díaz, Cubillo, Mir, Jesús Muñoz, Planagumà, Visnjic, Claudio, Siviero, Tevenet, Manolo Herrero, Pacheta… Newly elected is Ángel Rodríguez, whose latest success came with a promotion to the First RFEF and an optimistic speech.. Apparently, it’s too much even for the square it just came from.

The coach guarantees that Rico Pérez will have fun this season, and he hasn’t given up on Hércules’ favorite role in Group 3 of the Second RFEF in history. Even the last two games of the preseason against Orihuela (0-3) and UCAM Murcia (1-3) did not stand in the way of the blue-and-white coach, who continued his ordeal, especially after seeing how his best signing was theoretically. last arrive.

Míchel is a football player who should make a difference in the fourth category of Spanish football.. Although ten years have passed since he last wore the Herculaneum jersey, his 13 goals in the 2011/12 season are still on the retina. So he was a 23-year-old young man. Now, he is a 34-year-old senior. The doubts his DNI can generate can be answered by confirming that he played 33 games in the Second Division last year and competed in the highest category for the third season in a row two years ago.

After saying this, Hercules needs to win from day one. Each defeat will be a slab after the fifteenth fiasco, which was signed last season and was undoubtedly one of the loudest in the club’s centennial history due to the reorganization of the federative categories. There has been a total face lift at all levels. Change of coach. Player change. Change of sporting director. The only thing that hasn’t changed is the owner, the increasingly questioned Enrique Ortiz, that his SAD has to offer his fans a serious project once and for all.

On the first day this takes Hercules to Ciudad Deportiva Antonio Asensio (fate, always lurking) to face his Mallorca subsidiary, an entity who was recently in the catacombs of Second B, but who knows how to recover and reach Division One . . Didn’t get on the plane to Palma villacanasis a regular for Rodriguez in the pre-season, thus opening up a spot on the blue and white attacking flanks. Alvarito looks like the main candidate to occupy him, but if the coaching team doesn’t see him as a starter yet, Cristian Cedrés will be the chosen one.

Nico, ready to risk

In the rest of the starting 11 The only doubt seems to be whether Míchel wore the stripes of captain general from day one or whether Sergio Marcos has continuity as the team’s pointer. in the playground. Despite his left arm injury in the first game of the summer, Nico Espinosa seems willing to take risks. He already played the second half with good feelings against UCAM last Sunday.

Many eyes will be on the defensive line conceding six goals in the last two friendlies. Charles the High Priest on target. Center defenders (Marcelo and Dylan) will face high-quality players who will test their strength. Paco Peña refused to sign anyone in a hurry, giving them a cape, but the blank file is still there to save someone from unemployment.

At noon, Hercules is on an island and debuts on YouTube. Another attempt to leave Groundhog Day behind. In ten months it will be determined whether “I Got You Babe” is still playing.

Possible roster of Hercules: Charles Abad; Raúl Ruiz, Marcelo Djalo, Dylan Leiva, Felipe Chacartegui; Cesar Moreno, Maxi Ribero; Nico Espinosa, Sergio Marcos or Michel, Alvarito or Cristian Cedrés; André Victoria.

The rest of the calls: Iván Martínez (ps), Dani, Víctor Eimil. Toscano and Jack Harper.

Judge: Escobar López (Canary).

Start time: 12:00.

Television/streaming: Official YouTube channel of RCD Mallorca.