Pamplona, May 05 (EFE).- The city of Pamplona and the entire Navarra are turning to Osasuna on the eve of the Copa del Rey final that the rojillo team will play at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville this Saturday.
Thus, there are countless Osasuna flags that adorn the windows and balconies of public buildings, shops and private homes in Pamplona and initiatives are multiplying from all areas to show support for the Navarrese team, which aspires to win the first official title of his story.
If the Navarrese beat the whites this Saturday, the Pamplona City Council will hold an official reception on Sunday, the 7th, in the Reception Hall of the Town Hall, on whose façade this Friday a large Osasuna shirt with the motto “Pamplona with Osasuna. Iruna Osasunarekin”.
The Government of Navarra prepares a reception
The Government of Navarra will also join in the acts of homage to the team. If Osasuna wins the trophy, the reception will be held on Sunday afternoon. In this case, it is expected that the club’s squad, coaching staff and board of directors will travel to Avenida de San Ignacio in Pamplona by bus. The vehicle will park at the height of the Palacio de Navarra garden and you will access the building on foot through the main door.
President María Chivite, the Minister of Culture and Sports, Rebeca Esnaola, and other members of the Government of Navarra would greet the team in the Throne Room and then go out onto the balcony of the Palacio de Navarra that overlooks Paseo de Sarasate, where the institutional reception would take place with interventions by the president and representatives of the club.
If Osasuna were the runner-up, the institutional reception would take place, in a smaller format, on Monday afternoon inside the Throne Room of the Palacio de Navarra, with the presence of managers and team captains.
Initiatives of many groups
While the time comes for the referee José María Sánchez Martínez to kick off this Saturday’s game, many institutions and groups in Navarra have announced initiatives to show their support for Osasuna.
Thus, the La Pamplonesa Music Band has recorded the Osasuna Anthem, composed by Manuel Turrillas, to encourage the team and show their “unconditional support”. From La Pamplonesa they have transmitted their support and encouragement to Osasuna “so that they fight hard in the final of the Copa del Rey and can achieve victory.”
The Orfeón Pamplonés has also recorded a small video in which it encourages Osasuna, honorary member of this musical institution. With the music of O Fortuna, from the cantata Carmina Burana, by Carl Orff, the choir sings “All together to fight” and “Orfeoia zurekin” (The Orfeón with you).
Support for the rojillo team has also come from the Provincial Police, which on Twitter, under a photo of an agent showing the Osasuna shirt under his uniform, highlights: “This time you are allowed to come back with one more drink.”
special security device
The National Police, for its part, has designed a special device to guarantee the safety of citizens who will gather in Pamplona, Burlada and Villava on Saturday night for the final.
The Police Intervention Units (UIP) will make their presence clear with more than fifty troops and a dozen police vehicles, to which will be added the Citizen Security troops distributed at points considered strategic.
Likewise, the National Police has released on social networks two separate videos of the moment in which they have escorted the Navarrese team on their journey first to the Pamplona airport and then in Seville on their trip to the hotel.
“Always with you”
There are also numerous signs of support for Osasuna from private citizens, among them the inmates of the San Jerónimo de Estella residence for the elderly, who in a video entitled “Always with you” show their desire for the Navarrese to win the Cup. A hundred-year-old inmate assures in this sense that she has been “living with that illusion for a hundred years.”
In another curious video circulating on social networks, young Japanese people dressed in T-shirts in Tokyo sing the famous San Fermin song “January 1, February 2…” and chant the names of the players. And a young woman in a kimono even dares to sing a jota in support of Osasuna.
Thus, whatever happens this Saturday in the final, the party is already served in Pamplona, where the championship or the runner-up in the Cup will surely be a good argument to live a little preview of the next Sanfermines.