This season marks ten years since the last ascent of the CD Alcoyano to Second Division. A situation that, just two seasons ago, it seemed that it was not going to be repeated in the near future. However, the blue and white team has achieved the feat and, after securing their place in the new Second B Pro, will fight in the next phase for one of the teams that compete in the play-off for promotion to LaLiga Smartbank. Difficult yes, but not impossible. And less for the group of morale, which could put the finishing touch to this spectacular campaign by returning to professional football a decade later.
CD Alcoyano was promoted to Second in 2010/2011, 42 years later
And it is that, nothing is easy in the history of CD Alcoyano. Humble club where they exist, but with a great career in all categories of Spanish football. Thus, his last promotion to the Second Division was another chapter of suffering and sweat that ended, this time, with a happy ending for him. Sports. After two consecutive years qualifying for the promotion phase and getting down on the road, the third time came the charm. Perhaps the least expected and the one in which things were the most complicated, the Alcoy team pulled out its claw to achieve a historic rise 42 years later.
After qualifying in third position, the Santiago Bernabeu was the scene of the first contest, which faced the Blue and Whites at Real Madrid Castilla. The CD Alcoyano gave the first thrust to the merengue subsidiary in the first leg. A double of Alvaro Garcia mortally wounded a white team riddled with future stars like Nacho, Álvaro Morata or Cheryshev. But almost always everything in the history of the CD Alcoyano, It was time to suffer in the return. Toril’s men were about to achieve the feat reaching 1-2 on the scoreboard, but it came Paco Esteban to the rescue of Deportivo to continue making Alcoy dream by making the final 2-2.
Álvaro García, current player of the City of Benidorm, was one of the protagonists of that promotion promotion
In the next phase he expected nothing more and nothing less than the executioner of the previous year, the SD Eibar. The obstacles were not easy to overcome and, is that a place in the silver category well deserves blood, sweat and tears. With the 0-0 achieved in El Collao, the 1-1 draw in Ipúrua, again with a goal from the Salvador Alvaro Garcia, the CD Alcoyano managed to reach a final where the CD Lugo.
On June 26, 2011, a lone goal by Cesar Remon in the 59th game, he converted the David porras, at that time coach of the CD Alcoyano, in a Second Division team more than four decades later. That squad was made up of renowned footballers from the Region such as Bern, current coach of Olympic CD, Raúl Fabiani, player of the UD Vall d’Uxó in Preferential or Alvaro Garcia, in the Benidorm city also in Preferential.
Now, ten years later and after having been in Third last season, the CD Alcoyano has the opportunity to certify his third promotion in a year in which he could go from the Third Division to LaLiga Smartbank. Will they go back to being silver a decade later?
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