UE Santa Coloma will continue to play in Europe with Víkingur

Championship, Europa League, and now the divisional round. UE St. Coloma continues to dream and enter the last shot of the group stage of the third European competition. However, to do this, the pigeons must defeat Icelandic champions Reykjavik Vikingur in the league play-offs from August 22 to 29, after Arnar Gunlaugsson passed the third preliminary round with a 1-2 win yesterday in Flora Tallinn, Estonia.

But whether chasing the European dream or not, Boris Anton’s team will be looking to radically change their image on Wednesday at LNK Spota Parks in Riga, where they lost 7-0 to a far superior team to FK RFS. A team that knew how to exploit the weaknesses of the pigeons and a bad start. In fact, despite the 0-2 first leg, when the victory was almost sealed, Anton’s team scored four goals in just 22 minutes, which finally broke them down.

“We tried to reach the playoffs with our weapons, our game plan, but when something went wrong … it was one of those days when everything went wrong”, stressed the coach at the end of the match. Anton acknowledged the superiority of the opponent, saying that “they are a very strong and hard-working team”, while “we suffered in the first minute, we conceded another goal in the second and the ninth minute, and that broke us down completely on a moral level and on every level”.

Despite the logistical disappointment, the coach from Colombia noted that “we must be proud of the path we have taken, that we have reached the play-offs of the divisional league” and that we must “keep working and grinding, realizing that we are champions from a very small country and we will try to carry the shield of our club and country proudly throughout Europe and that is what we will continue to do.”

A similar point of view was expressed by Cristian García, who defined the party as a “wafer of reality”. The central defender admitted that “the first goal hurt us a lot” and that “we could not integrate into the game at any time”. All in all, it is time to “be better and be together”, because now “we screwed up” and return to Andorra “to engage in self-criticism”. For García, “dreams are dreams, but we are who we are”.