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The Levante v Elche match was played under an emotionally charged regime due to the recent deadly floods that have swept through eastern Spain, with the home manager unable to hold back tears.
Hurricane DANA left behind debris after, in addition to the incalculable material damage it caused, it killed hundreds of people, with eastern Spain not yet recovered and slowly trying to pick up its pieces from the evil that found it .
Football, which is a microcosm of society, could not be exempt from the climate of suffering that has engulfed the entire country on the Iberian Peninsula, with Levante’s match against Elche on Saturday for the Segunda Division a shocker example.
It was the first given by the home team since the recent tragedy and apart from a minute’s silence in memory of the victims, Levante’s players chose to play with muddy shirts, wanting to show their solidarity with all the people who saw their lives to be lost under the mud.
The central figure in the match was undoubtedly the team’s coach, Julian Calero, with the television cameras capturing the moment he could no longer hold back his tears and “broke down”, with him describing the intense emotions he experienced in his final match.
“I’ve never experienced anything this difficult, and neither has anyone else here. In the first half we didn’t play football, it was so difficult to overcome this psychological barrier, they were all emotionally charged and it took a lot of effort to convince them”. he said among other things.
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