Sant Llorenc des Cardassar is on Mallorca, Balearic Islands, SPAIN... Population of the town 8400, it lies on the East coast of Mallorca and presently is best known for the beach and its settlement as a back drop ITV2's Love Island series. It is the home of Magarita Fullana, a Bronze medal winner in the 2000 Olympic female Mountain Bike competition in Sydney.
Like Gloucester (recent blog), this is another flood story, as Cardassar suffered devastating flash floods from the River Begura de Salma on October 9th 2018. It caused at least 13 deaths and much destruction in the town and of course, inundated their football ground, Es Moleter, at Sant Llorenc des Card. Hundreds were made homeless, so fund raising has included donations and Rafa Nadal, who lives locally, will attend the cup tie. Kit, boots and so on has been donated from various clubs including a "similar" coloured 1st team kit from Osasuna.
This weekend the local town* team (*village??) takes part in its greatest match when the local lads meet the professionals Atletico Madrid in the First Round proper of the Spanish FA Cup (The Copa del Rey). The privilege is made available following Cardassar's recent victory in the previous round of the cup, by beating Epila 4-3 on pens, after a 0-0 full time score.
The cup was first played for in 1902 and this is the 119th playing of the Spanish Cup (see title above), which began with 126 teams drawn from the Spanish "pyramid". Clubs compete from the top division, La Liga, through the Primera, Segunda, Copa Federecion into the Regional Leagues. There is often a David v Goliath outcome in the Cup draw.
Last year's Copa final between Athetico Bilbao and Real Sociedad was postponed due to COVID and will be played on April 4th 2021.
The top two clubs in the cup will go on to play in the Supercopa de Espana and the winners go on to the Europa League. Current champions are Barcelona and of course Real Madrid have won it most with 30 titles.
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