The incredible feat in the Copa del Rey that no one has yet matched: the ‘Alcorconazo’ turns 15 today
Today the famous ‘Alcorconazo‘. And, 15 years later, no one has yet managed to match it. He 4-0 that those of Juan Antonio Anquela to Manuel Pellegrini’s Real Madrid is still intact.
A team from the now ‘defunct’ Second B gave the Galacticos a bath in football and made the name of Alcorcón cross borders. The feat carried out by the potters was covered in almost all the newspapers in the world. What’s more, in the next match that the yellows had to play in the League, more than 40 media outlets from outside Spain They asked to be accredited. Everyone wanted to see Alcorcón de Anquela.
Until the last minute
“Until the last minute of the last game.” This was the phrase created and coined by coach Juan Antonio Albacete Anquela, since his team scored quite a few goals in the final stretch of the games. Santo Domingo knew it and around the 80th minute the audience applauded louder and louder. Although never like in the Alcorconazowhere many rubbed their eyes wondering if what happened was reality or if they had dreamed it.
Yes indeed, 15 years later, the players remember how the coach de Jaén told them about the mistakes they had in the first part. And after finishing the first 45 minutes They won 3-0!!! to Madrid. “So that they don’t get lost,” the coach once said when asked for the ‘scolding’ of rest.
Alcorcón’s joy in the face of white despair.
“We cannot continue like this, we have left many gaps. You have to enter more per band…”. The players looked at each other with strange faces. Íñigo López acted as spokesperson: WhatsApp and we are giving it an important shake.” Anquela counterattacked: “We missed two short passes and made a silly foul. We can’t let our guard down, they’ll mess us up. These are very good and they mess us up. Understood?” A unanimous response: “Yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. Anquelotti“. It was his nickname.
Titi, the only one left
Titi, Alcorcón’s prop man, is the only one left from that group in Alcorcón. He is the one who put the locker rooms in perfect condition and he is the one who said goodbye to the Madrid players when they were leaving Santo Domingo.
Whatsapp, they didn’t make the entrance way, passing through the green to the locker rooms. Yesand they went to the bus insidewalking down the hallway, passing through the Alcorcón locker room and crossing the laundry room to go out the back door and get on the bus.
Anquela and Pellegrini, on the bench
A WhatsApp group keeps them together
When the season ended, the players, coaches… of Alcorcón opened a WhatsApp group to keep everyone in touch. In various Spanish cities, as well as European and American ones, the architects of the Alcorconazo wrote every day, told their stories and caught up to date, encouraging their former teammates.
“We were, we are and we will be a big family. If one of us does well, we are all happy and, conversely, what we experienced during those seasons and the following ones was recorded in our memories. The union was key and… let no one forget that we played very good football“recalls center back Íñigo López, one of the captains of that team. “We all went together. We worked for our partner. I have never experienced such a big pineapple in a locker room“says full-back Nagore.
They continue to form, 15 years later, the great feat of the Copa del Rey, which no one has yet managed to match“It is difficult for a team from the third category of Spanish football to score 4 goals against Madrid, full of figures,” say the players.
And Pellegrini put in the once titular 11 international players.
The party card of the October 27, 2009 (copper first leg)
Alcorcon: Juanma; Rubén Sanz, Íñigo López, Borja Gómez, Nagore; Ruben Sanz; Ernesto Gómez (Jeremy 65′), Sergio Mora, Fernando Béjar (Carmelo 75′); Diego Cascón and Borja Pérez (Bravo 82′).
Real Madrid: Dudek; Arbeloa, Albiol, Metzelder, Drenthe; Mahamadou Diarra, Guti (Gago 46′), Van der Vaart; Barn (Marcelo 63′); Raúl (Van Nistelrooy 72′) and Benzema.
Goals: 1-0, min 16: Borja. 2-0, min: 22: Arbeloa, a propia meta. 3-0, min, 40: Ernesto. 4-0, min 52: Borja.
Arbitrator: Turienzo Alvarez (Spanish and Leonese). He showed Guti yellow (44′).
Estadio Santo Domingo. 7,000 spectators.
