“Today the sun rises again and it is yellow,” Cádiz says on social networks one day after the most painful relegation of the Andalusian team. The year planned for the consolidation of the project in Primera in its fourth year in the top category turned into a nightmare. The sixth relegation in the history of Cádiz had been seen coming for a few weeks, but it was confirmed yesterday Sunday on the penultimate matchday of the League with the draw against Las Palmas. The agonizing victory against Sevilla in the weekday was of no use. “I am the person most responsible,” said President Manuel Vizcaíno, the man who handles all the threads of the Andalusian entity, which is very presidential. Vizcaíno was the man who led the project that he created with the club in the First Division in 2020. Under his command, Cádiz has spent four seasons in the First Division. In the city of Cádiz, however, he is not forgiven for being a Sevillian and, also, a Sevillista. The lack of a goal, the hiring of Pellegrino after the dismissal of Sergio (Vizcaíno’s big mistake), the bad results away from home and the poor performance of players destined to make a difference like Fali, Alcaraz, Guardiola or Máxi Gómez (neither a single goal scored) are behind this failure of the Cádiz team. Vizcaíno trusted these players and this group has not offered the necessary performance. “It has been a hard blow and we have done things wrong, but I am already working to return Cádiz to First Division,” said the president.
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Jeremias Ledesma, Zaldua (Iza, min. 84), Fali, Javi Hernández, Victor Chust, Robert Navarro (Brian Ocampo, min. 67), Escalante, Rubén Sobrino (Sergi Guardiola, min. 55), Rubén Alcaraz, Chris Ramos ( Maxi Gómez, min. 84) and Roger (Juanmi, min. 55)
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Álvaro Vallés, Saul Coco, Julian Araujo (Marc Cardona, min. 67), Mika Mármol, Sergi Cardona, Enzo Loiodice (Campaign, min. 72), Kirian Rodríguez, Javi Muñoz, Sandro (Álex Suárez, min. 67), Marvin Olawale Akinlabi Park (Maximo Perrone, min. 83) and Alberto Moleiro (Munir, min. 84)
Goals
Referee César Soto Grado
Yellow cards Chris Ramos (min. 45), Javi Hernández (min. 46), Brian Ocampo (min. 81) and Marc Cardona (min. 83)
red cards Victor Chust (min. 74)
It is curious that Cádiz has gone down when an attempt was made last summer to take a step further in the team’s ambitions, which had obtained two very difficult salvations in 2022 and 2023. In 2021, the team led by Álvaro Cervera achieved 12th place, equaling Cádiz’s best classification in First Division, which dated back to the 87-88 season. “It is time for the work that Cádiz is doing in Primera to bear fruit,” admitted President Vizcaíno in the month of August. The Andalusian entity kept Sergio González on the bench and made several major signings to consolidate itself in the top category. Footballers like Maxi Gómez, Machís and Robert Navarro reinforced a very established block with players like goalkeeper Ledesma, Iza, Rubén Alcaraz, Fali, Escalante, Sergi Guardiola and Roger Navarro. In addition, their list of forwards was extensive: Chris Ramos, Roger Martí, Sergio Guardiola, Machís, Rubén Sobrino and Juanmi, a winter addition.
Critics praised the values of a team that in the months of August and September even seemed to take a leap in quality in its game. Cádiz entered the month of October in ninth position, ahead of Betis and Sevilla and just three points from the European zone. But from then on he fell into a tremendous crisis of results. The team had lost some important hallmarks with Sergio, such as his combativeness, and the injuries of important players, such as Escalante, Roger Martí and Fede San Emeterio, took their toll on a group that chained one game after another without winning. Vizcaíno, an experienced president, did not fall into haste. He kept Sergio on the bench for as long as possible, to the point that he had no choice but to dismiss him on January 20 and after a streak of 17 games without winning (nine losses and eight draws). . Even Sergio himself acknowledged that the club had been very patient with his work. Overcome by the situation, the Catalan coach put an end to two years on the bench of the Andalusian team.
They were moments of reflection within the entity. The team was already showing its main deficit, an inability to score galloping goals. To alleviate it, Juanmi was signed, on loan from Betis and from Arab football in the winter market, while Vizcaíno thought a lot about the arrival of the new coach. He was placed in the hands of Mauricio Pellegrino. A technician with experience in Spain and very prepared, but who lacked character in a setting as peculiar as Cádiz. The effect of the arrival of the new coach was not what was desired. There was a certain reaction, but it was insufficient. Cádiz continued without scoring (they are the lowest scoring team in the League), although they breathed with the victories against Atlético de Madrid, Granada and Getafe at the Nuevo Mirandilla. It was in their stadium where Cádiz maintained certain hopes of salvation, since their season outside their stadium was, simply, disastrous. They only won at the Sánchez Pizjuán, with six more draws.
Neither the dedication of a fan base as loyal as that of Cádiz nor the attempts of its president to achieve the necessary unity to help the team have been able to avoid this painful relegation, which has come in the year in which the consolidation of the team was expected. in First Division. A pending matter in an entity with great social roots in Cádiz and that has brought about great moments in the history of Spanish football.
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