For fifteen years, fans and club managers in Sierra wanted to distract from the fact that the Ecuadorian classic is the one in which Emelec and Barcelona Sporting Club star, but Franklin Magician Salas, an idol of the Liga de Quito, spoke up and said that the immortal game of national football is the one played by electricians and canaries.

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For him Magician Salas, “it cannot be a national classic against the League. Barcelona SC in Casa Blanca (Rodrigo Paz), because these matches are defined when your opponent beats you in your backyard and you do the same, and so on. You can never call LDU classic. Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​because the latter won only one match in 26 years (to Rodrigo Paz)”.

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He also stated that “League (Q) vs. The National is a regional meeting, it is local, as is Newell’s Old Boys vs. Rosario Central (from the city of Rosario, Argentina). It’s not classic, because there are no more than 5,000 people at the Monumental, but if it’s at Rodrigo Paz or Olímpic Atahualpa, the stands will be full.”

The Shipyard Classic: A 70-Year Legend

Subjects forcibly entered the Samanes complex to insult the Emelec team, concentrated for the Clásico del Astillero

And what makes the shipyard conflict special, according to Salas: “Emelec vs. Barcelona is the only national classic that can be, exists and will be, because the statistics say so. They faced each other on more than 200 occasions”.

In official matches, 287 matches were played: 231 times for the Ecuador championship, 45 for the Guayas tournament and 11 for the Copa Libertadores.

On the significance of the clash between Independiente del Valle and Liga (Q), the national clubs that have won the most international trophies, Salas, in a conversation with the YouTube channel BuBu TV in a good mood, commented: “Not an Independent vs. The league can be considered a classic; A nice duel, but nothing more.”

“I, being a member of the league, would like to see another final between Barcelona SC and Emelec (like in 2014). I don’t care who wins,” he concluded. Magicianwho won three national titles with the Whites (2003, Apertura 2005 and 2007) and as many international titles (Libertadores 2008, Recopa 2009 and Sudamericana 2009).

Throughout history, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) and the British Football Magazine Four Four Two They recognized that the only immortal duels in Ecuador were those fought by the brothers from the Shipyard. (D)