Few coaches of the bronze category of Spanish football can boast of having won one of the largest clubs in history, the real Madrid. And Vicente Parras is one of them. The person in charge of directing the template of Teruel in his adventure for First Federation This next season made history when at Alcoyano’s commanders, he managed to defeat the White Club in a match for memory.
Vicente Parras is chosen to occupy the bench of Teruel in his return to First Federation
It was the 2020/2021 season and in the town of Alcoy it was celebrated that the Sixteenth of the Copa del Rey had matched the Almighty Real Madrid. The second B Alcoyano and with Vicente Parras on the bench received in his field a set trained by Zinedine Zidane and with stars in his staff of the level of Benzema, Kroos, Marcelo, Asensio or Hazard, among others.
For all these reasons, the El Collao municipal field, a fief of the Alcoyano, witnessed on January 20, 2021 of a result as surprising as historical for the Alicante and that meant the elimination of Real Madrid of the Copa del Rey.
Winning Real Madrid with one less
Vicente Parras’s words
The road of Alcoyano in the Cup: he eliminated Huesca
Winning Real Madrid with one less
The party between Alicante and Madrid was hard and intense. Vicente Parras chose to start with his usual eleven, while Zidane chose to start the game with ‘Unit B’: Lunin in goal, defense for Marcelo, Chusto, Militao and Odriozola, in the Casemiro, Valverde and Isco machine room and above Vinícius, Lucas Vázquez and Mariano.
The whites began the crash plugged in and were gradually eroding to an Alcoyano who endured in his field. With the passing of the minutes, the Alicante were releasing, shaking the visiting domain and arriving at the Lunin goal. Despite this, just at the edge of the break, Militao nodded a center of Marcelo to put the 0-1 on the scoreboard.
The Alicante were lost to the break by 0-1. Photo: Alcoyano
Already in the second part, Madrid tried to look for the second to close the tie, but those of Alcoy were able to maintain the duel in a fist thanks to the stellar performance of José Juan under sticks. It would be in the 81st minute when Juli looked for the second stick where Solbes appeared to introduce the ball into the meringue goal and match the tie in a chute of energy and motivation for the Alcoyano. Both protagonists of both Alicante had been the first changes made by Vicente Parras.
The duel went to the extension and Zidane gave entrance to one of its regular players such as Kroos or Asensio. Everything seemed to opt for Real Madrid, when in the 109th minute, the Alcoyano player, Ramón López saw the second yellow and left his team with ten. Even so, José Juan’s stops kept an Alcoyano alive who would collect their fruits in the 115th minute. Juanan culminated a magnificent against the Alicante to achieve a historical victory and the pass to the next round of the Copa del Rey.
Those of Parras achieved a historical deed. Photo: Alcoyano
Vicente Parras’s words
“Every change they made, more proud I felt about my players … You saw Benzema, Hazard, Kroos,” said Teruel’s current coach after achieving the deed. Parras came to ironize with the non -presence of Ramos in Alcoy: “Luckily Sergio Ramos did not come, because if we are with the ay until the end.”
The coach, who was very excited and proud of his players, explained that his game plan had come perfectly over the grass: “We wanted to be alive until the end to be able to believe and it went well.” “There have been many phases in which I have seen that they put us one or two goals, but as time passed we believed more in us,” Parras said at the end of the game.
The Alicante won in the extension and with one less player. Photo: Alcoyano
The road of Alcoyano in the Cup: he eliminated Huesca
Real Madrid was not the first team of the First Division that Alcoyano had managed to win in that edition of the cupo trophy. In the previous round, those of Parras won 2-1 in their fief in Huesca who was in the highest category of Spanish football.
After eliminating Real Madrid, the Alcoyano would see the faces with another of the greats of Spanish football, Athletic Bilbao, in the round of 16. Despite advancing on the scoreboard and winning until the 53rd minute, the Basques turned the scoreboard and put an end to the cupbeat of Vicente Parras and his Alcoyano.
