The maturity of a united group
In Malaga they know well what it means to compete in a category where each day opens new scenarios. Equality turns each week into an opportunity to continue growing and forces the club to maintain focus and consistency throughout the season.
Kike Pérez, general director of Málaga CF, sums it up with a simple idea: “It is a beautiful and hypertensive category, since every week your mood can change, because there is a lot of equality.”
To face this responsibility, the message within the club has been to maintain focus on the short term: “We must be calm and confident week by week, and only think about the next game, which is what we have been doing all these months.”
Juanfran Funes, Málaga coach – Photo: LALIGA.
A vision that is also shared by the coaching staff. Juanfran Funes, coach of Málaga, focuses precisely on what makes the competition so unpredictable: “The teams are very equal, which makes the competition very beautiful. In the end, what you think does not end up happening.”
The force of the group
In a season where every detail matters more than ever, Málaga CF finds one of its main supports in something less visible than the results: the group.
Funes points out that part of that strength comes from a shared journey that has given stability to the locker room: “The promotion to LALIGA HYPERMOTION forged a group with a very solid base, which has been maintained for years, which translates into great strength.”
In the center of that structure appears the figure of the captain, Alfonso Herrero, who recognizes that few imagined this scenario just a few months ago: “No one imagined, given how things were going at the beginning of the season, being in this situation. We have earned it hard and it depends on us.”
And when it comes to naming the moment the team is experiencing, Alfonso Herrero does not hesitate: “If I had to describe this moment of the season, in one word, it would be excitement. Because to achieve what we have achieved, to come from where we come from and to be where we are now, that is what is needed: a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of commitment from each and every one of us.”
Alfonso Herrero, captain of Málaga CF – Photo: LALIGA.
But if there is anything this season leaves behind, for the goalkeeper, it goes beyond the grass: “When I think about this season over the years, I think the first thing that will come to mind will be the locker room. A very healthy locker room, full of incredible people who feel this shield like any of those who are watching the games.”
a feeling that goes beyond the stadium
Talking about the Costa del Sol team is also talking about La Rosaleda and a fan that has accompanied the team throughout the season.
Miguel Molina, president of the Federation of Malaguista Supporters Clubs, remembers one of the moments that changed the emotional course of the course: “After the change of coach, the team changed its attitude, changed the game system and then it has made us enjoy many afternoons and many games.”
Because in a category like LALIGA HYPERMOTION, he insists, nothing is written: “Matches are not won by the classification of each team, they are won on the field and you have to bite, you have to fight and you have to go out and win every game.”
Miguel Molina, president of the Federation of Malaguista Supporters Clubs – Photo: LALIGA.
That bond is also perceived outside the stadium. In the streets, in families and in a way of living the club that is transmitted from generation to generation. “Málaga is a feeling, Málaga is more than a pride, it is a passion. It is our lifelong team.”
And he adds: “That generation has made its children feel the colors of Málaga today, supporting the team, and that only Málaga t-shirts and scarves are seen on the streets.”
For Kike Pérez, that connection explains many things: “I always say that the fans are the most important thing in football. Without the fans we are nothing.”
Kike Pérez, general director of Málaga CF – Photo: LALIGA.
With one last day still to play and much still to be decided, Málaga CF faces the outcome accompanied by a city that, once again, has decided to continue believing.
LALIGA HYPERMOTION faces the decisive stretch of the season with promotions, PROMOTION PLAYOFF and permanences still to be decided in a competition where equality maintains the excitement until the last moment. A context that turns each decisive day into something more than football for thousands of fans.
This scenario frames “Outcome”the campaign LALIGA for the end of the season, which focuses on the way in which the fans experience the most decisive moments of the season. Because when everything is at stake, so is the way to defend one’s colors, accompany the team and continue building a legacy that passes from generation to generation.
