After almost 70 years, the old ROMAREDA says 'goodbye' with a unique legacy. The blue and whitecur Real Zaragoza It became a historic Spanish football. A journey that will conclude this Sunday to give way to the pickup and thus be reborn with its new face, predictably, in 2027.
It will be to change everything so that everything remains the same because, as EFE stands out Nayimthe hero of Paristhe one who gave the Golment from Europe In 1995 to Real Zaragoza“a La Romareda The wrapping does not make it, but people do. ”
It was a September 8, 1957 when the blanquillos inaugurated their fief with victory against Health And it will be a May 25, 2025 the day the Vetusta Romareda will say goodbye. It will also do it with a crucial duel for the permanence in Second, in front of Deportivo de la Coruña.
These walls have witnessed magical matches and has been the place where fans saw legendary teams, such as the 'magnificent' and the 'zaraguayos'.
About his grass, giants such as Madrid and Barcelona They have gathed and that was where he Chelsea and Feyenoord The knee struggled so that Zaragoza reached that final legendary of the 1995 Recopa in Paris.
To the hero of that meeting, Nayimnostalgia weighs him, not forgetting the importance of the last day in the Romareda: “The most important thing of this Sunday is to win the game, without a doubt. But, obviously, the memories of the Romareda will be eternal.”
“All those teams that have made history, who have won titles, that people have taken in volandas… that is La Romaredait will always remain in the minds of all of us because it will be eternal, ”insists the blanquillo myth.
In his journey with the elastic of the lion, he remembers clashes such as those of the Collect Against Chelsea and Feyenoord, “a madness” of nights in which he recalls how the fans squeezed so that everything went well.
From the matches at home, Nayim highlights that unique runrún that the zaragocista temple has when the stand lights: “That 'scarf', when the fans start to roar … We were unstoppable when we noticed that,” he recalls.
Xavi Aguadohis teammate and the player who, along with Violeta, has wore the Blanquilla shirt, also has the atmosphere of the old Romareda also recorded.
“A brutal resonance box is created. All the people who have come to play against the Romareda and the referees said the same, that when the public pressed it was noticed,” he says.
For Aguado, Sunday will be “a sad day.” Among his memories, he stands out in particular: “The most emotional, most beautiful and more explosion at the emotional level was the day of promotion against the Murcia In 91. “” It meant a cycle change, “he emphasizes.
In the face of the new field, expect it to be a ROMAREDA “Modern, which attracts much more audience, much more comfortable and, above all, that that essence of the field is maintained.” And the defense adds another request, a small chapel: “As a Catholic that I am and practitioner, I would like there to be a small space for the Virgin of the Pilar”.
Parties that do not forget
The EFE Agency journalist Enrique Péreznewly retired, also knows very well the imprint of the Romareda after covering hundreds of parties from 1991, until last April. Now the meetings will live as an amateur, a position in which “it suffers much more” than as a professional.
Of his memories from the press gallery recalls 6-3 to Barcelona from 1994, the two 6-1 to Madrid (In the League, in season 74-75, and in Copa del Rey, in 2006) and the promotion against Murcia. “They are games that do not forget,” he says.
In these last moments of the field, Pérez admits that it will be “a bit weird” to go to a new ROMAREDA different from the current one. “As it will be in the same place, it may not be as strange as if they had to lift it in another part of the city; it is clear that it will be a different stadium, but it will be the same,” he reflects.
“With what we have enjoyed …”
To Manuel Poncelaholder of the gold and brilliant badge that the club gives to fans who add 50 years as partners and owner of three SAD shares, the end of the Romareda arrives at a complicated moment.
“With everything we have enjoyed and the people we have seen there, that when the Romareda disappears it has to be with this team and in this situation … I am disappointed,” he laments.
In those five decades as a partner, Poncela It highlights moments like 6-1 to Madrid of the 74-75 and 6-3 to Barcelona, “with the 'package' fluidly drilling throughout the area and zubizarreta of knees”, recalls.
Of that tour, this former partner makes a review in which the most important names of world football appear: “I have seen SkinI've seen CruyffI've seen Maradonaa Messi… ”, He says.
And from those at home, it highlights names like Garcia's Chestnut, 'Wolf' Diarte And of course, Nine arrúa, of one of the best teams that the Zaragozathat of the 'Zaraguayos'.
Like every day, Sunday will go with his smallest grandson, Leoto witness the last game in the ROMAREDA. This and the rest of his grandchildren are, thanks to him, zaragocists from the cradle: “As they were born, they passed them and made them partners,” he recalls.
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And, after this date, it is clear that he will continue to see his club always: “I will go a partner and go to see them until I die. Anything else would be to fail the Real Zaragoza”, Emphasizes.
The machines will begin to demolish the stadium this summer, with the aim that the new ROMAREDA It arrives in 2027. Thus will say goodbye a field that for years have noticed the ailments of the age.
The project goes through creating a modern stadium that will exceed 43,000 spectators and that, if there are no unforeseen events, will host the 2030 World Cup. Meanwhile, the team will play the next two seasons in a modular stadium.
Whatever that new ROMAREDA, Nayim You have no doubt that what distinguishes the old woman will continue in the future, because that is “its people.” “Each hobby has a way of animating, but ours is unique for how it goes behind the team,” he insists.
