Osasuna and History

THE SPANISH LEAGUE AND OSASUNA

The Spanish League has been celebrating for the last 80 years. It started in 1929 with 10 teams in the championship and the League has changed up to 20 teams which play in now.
That same year, 1929, the Second Division also began with 18 teams, divided into two groups of nine teams each: Alaves, Betis, Celta, Deportivo, Iberia Zaragoza, Oviedo, Sevilla, Sporting and Valencia in one of them, and Cartagena, Castellón, Cultural Leonesa, Murcia, Osasuna, Gimnástica de Torrelavega, Valladolid, Zaragoza y Barakaldo in the other.
On Sunday 10 Febraury 1929 Spain kicked off the football championship in which the following teams would compete: Arenas de Getxo, Atlético de Madrid, Real Madrid, Espanyol, Real Unión de Irún, el Europa, F.C. Barcelona, Real Sociedad, Athletic Club de Bilbao y Racing de Santander.
There was a force stop during the Spanish Civil War for three years, so there have been 77 seasons in total ( this is the 78th season ). Only nine teams have won La Liga : Real Madrid (31), F.C.Barcelona (18), Atlético de Madrid (9), Athletic Club de Bilbao (8), Valencia C.F. (6), Real Sociedad (2), and Sevilla, Betis and Deportivo (1)
There are many records to beat: Luis Aragonés is the coach with more games on the football benches (757), Telmo Zarra is the best scorer (251 goals ) and the ex-international goalkeeper Andoni Zubizarreta is the footballer who has played more games ( 622 ).
Finally, Real Madrid, F.C.Barcelona and Athletic Club de Bilbao are the only teams to have played for all these seasons in the First Division and there have been 58 teams in total in the Spanish Football League ( La Liga ).
There are few people who are 80 and have been Osasuna fans since then, but we got a short interview in Diario de Navarra with Amalio López de Castillo, who was born in 1929 and he's the number 144 as Osasuna member. He has good memories of the former stadium, San Juan, and players as Kubala, Di Stefano o Ignacio Zoco. "In the 70s we travelled to Tudela or Irun, and went on a bus to see a semifinal between Athletic and Barça with the famous goalkeeper Ramallets in the Barcelona team", he said.
In the last 80 years football has changed quite a lot, but Amalio thinks that the origins remain. And this is his most remarkable sentence: "Los que somos de Osasuna siempre seremos de Osasuna". This is my translation for that sentence: "Osasuna, you'll never walk alone".
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