Football Miracle - 3rd Division Formentera snatch last-second win in San Mamés
Thursday, November 30, 2017 @ 11:50 PM
Formentera has achieved a miracle by eliminating Athletic Club of Bilbao, in their home stadium of San Mamés. Up until the last play, the match was drawn, with Athletic Club holding their advantage from the 1-1 draw in the first leg, but a corner kick by Omar Álvarez set up Álvaro Muñiz for a perfect header in the 96th minute snatching the win for Formentera and knocking Athletic out of the competition altogether.
It was a fairytale ending for the Segunda B outfit (Spain’s 3rd division) and a fair reward for a very modest team which was able to battle it out against an experienced first division team with 23 King’s Cup titles already under their belt. Formentera, who entered the Kings Cup for the first time 3 years ago were ecstatic with the result. Muniz, the goal scorer said, “ This is the best day of my career, you can’t imagine how happy I am right now!”
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