The Athletic that won the League in 1983 will receive a tribute on April 20 on the 40th anniversary of the title
He Athletic who won the League in the 1982-83 season you will receive, next April 20in it Euskalduna Palacein Bilbaoa tribute to commemorate the 40 years of that historic title. Next May 1 will mark four decades since that Athletic, trained by javier clemente, beat Las Palmas 1-5 at the Insular stadium and gave the club the seventh League in its history; the tribute, which will take place at the gala “Txapeldunak 40 urte-40 years of champion team: Lions for history”driven by the rock The Txistuhas been presented this Tuesday, with the presence of several members of the team that achieved the victory.
Thus, Danielwho was the captain, Miguel de Andrés, Juanjo Elgezabal, Patxi Salinas and Patxi Bolaños They have represented that group, in an act that the coach, Javier Clemente, had planned to attend, although he excused his presence for personal reasons.
The president of El Txistu, Inigo Crespohas explained that this memory of a “memorable triumph”, achieved by an “unrepeatable generation of players”, should serve as a “transmission belt” so that “the new generations of footballers and followers” of Athletic can learn first-hand about the feat culminated on May 1, 1983.
As for the gala, whose advertising poster has been made by the illustrator and former director of Athletic Tomás Ondarra, and which has the support of 21 companies from Bizkaia, Crespo has advanced that it will be held in a Euskalduna room with capacity for “between 600 and 700 people”. “The majority of the members of that squad” will attend, and both Athletic Club and the Bilbao City Council and the Provincial Council of Bizkaia will be invited, as well as supporters and supporters, until completing a capacity that the promoters assume will be will be too small to meet the demand.
Dani, for his part, thanked the initiative, which will allow them to remember an “unrepeatable experience”, since he considers that, “as football has been, there is a 99% probability” that Athletic will not win the league again.
The team that won Athletic’s penultimate league title in Las Palmas, a prelude to the treble achieved in the 1983-84 season, in which the Biscayan team won the League, the Cup and the Super Cup, formed in Las Palmas with this lineup: Andoni Zubizarreta, Santi Urkiaga, Iñigo Liceranzu, José Mari Núñez, Luis de la Fuente, Miguel Sola, Miguel de Andrés, Isma Urtubi, Dani, Manu Sarabia and Estanis Argote. they also played Txema Noriega and Julio Salinasand they were on the bench Andoni Cedrún and Patxi Salinas; Carlos Meléndez, Patxi Bolaños, Agustín Gisasola, Andoni Goikoetxea, Óscar Vivanco, Teo Rastrojo, Juanjo Elgezabal, Txetxu Gallego, Ricardo Arrien and Fernando Tirapuwho died in 2018, who due to sanction or technical decision were not in the Las Palmas squad, were also members of that squad, which two days later, on May 3, 1983, arrived in Bilbao via the Ría, mounted on the Barge Athletic.
Source: Eitb
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