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The town of Villanueva de la Serena in Extremadura gets ready for Barça's visit in the last 32 of the Copa del Rey 'Not in my wildest dreams did I imagine anything like this' says club President José Maria Tapia
Villanueva de la Serena's other claims to fame
The town in Extremadura will host FC Barcelona's first leg last 32 tie on Wednesday at 8.30pm CET against CF Villanovense, but that is not their only claim to fame. Spanish basketball star José Manuel Calderon, who currently plays for the New York Knicks in the NBA, was born in the town. Furthermore, evidence points to that most Spanish of gastronomic delights, the tortilla de patatas, was invented in Villanueva de la Serena on 27 February 1798.
[[DES_1]]'CF Villanovense will play FC Barcelona', the roar of delight could probably have been heard some 130 kilometres away in Portugal. The squad had gathered to follow the live draw for the last 32 of the Copa del Rey in the home side's dressing room at the Romero Cuerda Stadium via the Spanish Football Federation's website, with the exception of coach Julio Cobos, who had opted to follow events from home. The reaction was immediate, the squad and club officials pouring out on the pitch to crack open the champagne to celebrate what will be the biggest day in CF Villanovense's history since its foundation in 1992.
The chance to dream
The last 32 of the Copa del Rey is traditionally when the top teams enter the competition and so for smaller clubs like CF Villanovense, who play in Spain's regionalised third tier of football, the Segunda B, it is an opportunity to dream of a tie against top flight opposition. Victories against Peña Sport and Racing Ferrol put the club from the town of Villaneuva de la Serena into the draw and the rest, as they say, is history. Club president José Maria Tapia was in the dressing room with the squad when the draw brought his team together with Barça: "For us it was an immensely joyous moment, to come up against the current European, League and Cup champions, whilst we are one of the most modest teams in the Segunda B, it is a great challenge."
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The man who leads the board at the club is unable to overestimate the importance of the visit of the blaugranes to a CF Villanovense who are yet to make it to Spain's second tier of football, the Segunda A, in their history. "For our city it is an historic event because we have not made it out of the Segunda B. We expect a huge influx of fans both of CF Villanovense and FC Barcelona." The tie against the current Copa del Rey champions has served to strengthen the links between the football club and the town: "The Club has always had a good relationship with the community, but now anyone from here identifies more with Villanovense…on every corner people are talking about the match."
Not getting carried away is key
One of the beauties of football is that it throws up these occasions when a club with an annual budget of 300,000 Euros gets the chance to measure up to one of the biggest clubs in the world. Nevertheless, president Tapia is keeping his feet on the ground: "Our dream is to keep on the path we set for ourselves when we took over the club. That is none other than to pay our employees on time and to be able to sleep at night."
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Knowing that Barça fans from all over the world will be focusing on the town of Villanueva de la Serena and Villanovense on Wednesday evening at 8.30pm CET, Tapia is keen to present to a wider public a true picture of "a modest club who try to things in the right way, both on and off the field, we don't want, or try to look beyond that, as that would be a mistake. This humility and the ability to take things as they come without losing our head has given us the chance to enjoy a place in the promotion play offs to the Segunda A last season for the very first time, and now the chance to welcome none other than FC Barcelona."
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YOU CAN SKIP THIS PART(short joke)...
A young couple moved into a new neighbourhood. The next morning while eating breakfast, the young woman saw her neighbour through the window hanging the wash outside.
"That laundry is not clean," she said. "She doesn't know how to wash correctly. Perhaps she needs better laundry soap".
Her husband looked on, but remained silent. Every time the neighbour would hang laundry to dry, the young woman would make the same
comments.
About one month later, the woman was surprised to see nice clean wash on the line and said to her husband: "Look, she has learnt how to wash correctly. I wonder who taught her this!"
The husband replied: "I got up early this morning and cleaned our windows."
And so it is with life.
What we see when watching others depends on the purity of the window through which we look.
Easy to discuss other people, their lives and things that don't really concern us.
Yet we tend to forget- our window isn't that clean after all.
Clean up your window with the WORD! (THE TRUTH.)
LORD, please give us the strength, humility and courage that we may work on our faults first rather than seeing the faults in Others and castigating them.
Have a beautiful Week !
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