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CE Sabadell vs RCD Espanyol: The ‘other’ Catalan derby is back after 30 years
Oct 1, 2020
These two clubs from Catalonia are among the oldest in all of Spanish football.
They’ll meet for the first time since 1990 in LaLiga SmartBank this weekend, Spain’s second tier. CE Sabadell and RCD Espanyol are two clubs that are so close, yet they’ve been so far apart for three decades. These clubs share the same blue and white colours and are based just 40 kilometres away from each other, but they haven’t crossed paths in an official match since 1990, a 1-1 draw in Spanish football’s second division.
When these sides played in that 1989/90 season, Espanyol had dropped into the second tier for one campaign. Yet they boasted legends such as Cameroonian keeper Thomas N’Kono in their side, who was in the final season of his iconic eight-year stay at the club before moving on to Sabadell of all clubs. Today, N’Kono is Espanyol’s goalkeeping coach and far from the only player to connect the two sides.
Another Espanyol legend Rafa Marañon also left the club years before to join Sabadell – a club known as Los arlequinados – in 1983 to help the club move up into the second tier before their promotion to LaLiga Santander in 1986. Players have moved the other way too, among them former Barcelona youth academy star Manu Lanzarote who joined Espanyol in 2013 after an impressive spell with Sabadell.
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