I have the feeling that a revisionism of the most recent history of the Real Oviedovery far from reality.
I refresh the memory of the Oviedistas by remembering the moment of the escape of Alberto Gonzalezleaving behind a trail of debts and more debts pending payment. Expenses dramatically exceeded income. Given this scenario, it was normal that a great Oviedo player like José Luis “Gespasa” did not appear at the Shareholders’ Meeting where he was going to be appointed. president.
Agustín Iglesias Caunedo, at the head of the city mayor’s office, supported by members of Aparo and Symmachiarii, formed in just over 24 hours a team of Oviedistas that would make history at the head of the club. Toni Fidalgo in the presidency, along with the advisors Antonio Mijares, Juan Ramón González “twist“, Pedro Yours, Sabino Lopez and, as advisors to the presidency, Hugo López and Jorge Sánchezthey assumed the responsibility that absolutely no one else wanted to assume. To take charge of a Real Oviedo drowned by debts, many of them, of immediate payment, putting at stake his reputation, his oviedismo and, most importantly, risking his assets. The judicial rulings that led to the seizure of the assets of Manolo Lafuente and other advisors from the beginning of the century were very fresh in the minds of all those who declined to join the blue board.
It is very easy to see these situations from the sidelines, thinking that everyone who joins the board of directors of Oviedo “shits hard”, but that is not the case. The embargoes derived from the club’s debts have destroyed lives, they have caused real dramas in those who have suffered them firsthand. There is little empathy shown by the Oviedo fans in these cases, to those who lost a good part of their assets for leading Oviedo in its worst moments.
Beyond being able to pay the debts as best as possible and form a squad with which to compete that season, the council of administration of Toni Fidalgo launched a capital increase with universal impact that, even today, is taken as an example and explained in different universities around the world. Its success was such that, once Oviedo fans responded en masse and turned to helping financially to save the club, citizens of very diverse origins contributed to our fight. Those were the true foundations on which the subsequent arrival of Arturo Elias as maximum shareholder.
All this comes up, since recently I have had the opportunity to see the documentary “Oviedo First“, made by the Mexican production company “Claro Sports“. This documentary focuses a good part of its content on the capital increase of 2012 and, by magic, none of the directors who worked the miracle appear in it. Nor Toniis Pedrois “twist“, nor does anyone else deserve sufficient consideration to intervene in a documentary that talks about what they, with spectacular success and great responsibility, masterfully brought to fruition. Their essential contribution in the process of saving the club is blatantly covered up. It is as if a documentary was made about the Spanish transition and neither King Juan Carlos nor Adolfo Suárez appeared. Crazy.
And what hurts me the most, and I imagine it will hurt its true protagonists, is that ordinary Oviedo fans accept that plan.alie that, with the club in tatters, a prank was played on the radio on the son-in-law of the richest man on the planet and, from there, our salvation was consolidated. No gentlemen. It wasn’t like that. In these moments when the Fiscal General of the State It has confirmed to us the importance of winning the story, we would have to be the first to remember our history, just as it was. When no one wanted to lead Oviedo because he was a dead man with legs, Arturo EliasLogically, he lived happily without worrying about Oviedo. A group of Oviedo fans had to come to take the reins and do a spectacular job, so that one of the great fortunes in the world would invest in our club and give us economic stability, for which we are all extremely grateful.
I have no proof, but I also have no doubt that the managers who have come after Toni and his team have wanted to erase them and separate them from the history of the Oviedo. They have been relegated to a secondary role, so that they can occupy a foreground that, as far as 2012it does not correspond to them at all. They are not aware that, in reality, this contempt diminishes them. He dear It is earned by working with professionalism and success. Not hiding those who have done spectacularly before you and enjoyed the appreciation and sympathy of the fans.
Nothing surprises me anymore, but I see myself in a few years watching a documentary that suggests that it was Luis Carrion who promoted us to first. Don’t be scandalized. Haganme case. These things happen.