Whilst watching the Racing Cartegena game next door I could see a match had started on the nearby artificial pitch. A quick internet search revealed that it was an under fifteen Supaliga Cadete fixture between Cartegena UCAM and Lorca. Once my game had finished I took a walk around the outside of the Gomez Meseguer ground and went in for a look.
It was half-time and most of the crowd, whom I presume were mainly family members, were milling around bemoaning the lack of refreshments. Some of them made their way back into the main ground and got beers from the bar. As I wasn’t sure whether they would be returning to the shaded seats in the centre of the stand I took a seat in the uncovered section nearer to one of the goalmouths.
I didn’t know the score at that stage and to be honest I didn’t really care. It’s quite enjoyable sometimes to try and work out what the game situation is. I knew that visitors Lorca were in the blue and white Brightonesque kit and they were creating most of the chances. In the twenty minutes I was there they scored twice, both direct free-kicks from their number ten. He looked a menace.
As I wanted to be in Callosa for a tea-time game I didn’t hang about, but left with the thought that it would have been a high-scoring one-sided victory to the visitors. I checked the next day and whilst I’d called the victors correctly it was by a much narrower three-two margin than I’d expected.
Tags: Cartegena, Spanish football, U15
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