Anyway, as I said Zaragoza is back to our home. And I am very happy, moved by this visit. As I always say I have relatives in that city and we always lived our rivalry with a lot of respect and humour. There was never hate or anger in our comments or actions. Our feeling was the love to our team.
The most of the content of this article is from an article in a newspaper in Zaragoza that is about the origin of the hatred relations between both supporters'main groups: Indar Gorri and Ligallo. Both are unpopular in Zaragoza and Pamplona, but I think most of the citizens in both cities appreciate the other team, or not??? ( have a look to my link about the likes and dislikes in football )
Osasuna and Zaragoza play another game in First Division after some years in Second Division. This confrontation was quite a sense of a festivity and joyful day and now is another one in the season, and perhaps with a sense of scare and doubtness to cross the frontier. There is no passsion or joyness in the stadium,with a mixture of red and white colours in the same side of the stadium. On the contrary, there is HATE, INSULTS, AND UNRESPECT TO OTHER'S BELIEFS.
This is a story about how it started 20 years ago. By the way, I was there. Now, as many Osasuna and Zaragoza supporters, I do not go with my team to Zaragoza. I can't show my Osasuna shirt there and my family either!
There are only memories of good times that will never come back. There won't be songs between both supporters groups. I was not born, but Osasuna was in the presentation of the former stadium of Zaragoza F.C., Torrero, in 1923. And Osasuna also inaugurated the Romareda stadium in 1957. And, of course, the "maños", the familiar and friendly way of calling the people from Zaragoza, came to Pamplona in 1967 to inaugurate El Sadar.
When Osasuna got promoted in 80's there were about 7,000 people from all Navarra to visit Zaragoza a match day. And when Zaragoza visited Pamplona it was normal to see many people in white and blue in our city.
But everything changed in October 1987, when a bottle hit Roberto's head. It was, maybe, an isolated action that generated the birth and growth of a radical group in Zaragoza, Los Ligallo, and another in Pamplona, Indar Gorri.
The match between Zaragoza and Osasuna was on 4th October 1987. Perhaps, some of those people who generated the radical group started that action and, as some others in Osasuna did the same in other stadiums in Spain, and there were police officers in the stadium, there was a non-expected and unfair action against Osasuna supporters in La Romareda, when we didn't start it. Everyone in Osasuna club supported us and then it began a relationship of love between Indar Gorri and the club.
There have been some gestures to change this feeling, from the clubs and the teams, but radical supporters will never be the same. There are strong political ideas to split them, but perhaps, after Thursday's good news thing may change too, and there is an insult "ceasefire" in the stadiums!
I hope one day I will see it, like Thursday's news about ETA.
Finally, this is a video for all Osasunists, but overall for Mendilibar. This is the love of Osasunists to our team!
Gora Osasuna!Aupa Rojillos!
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