Scottish Rangers, on the brink of a European title: from loss to return to greatness

This is the inspired picture for any broken giant and also for a Netflix series, even with Independence’s result against Frankfurt in the Europa League finals. It’s a resurgence of football. This is the remarkable case of Rangers FCas of Wednesday, May 19th you can put more history in your history and more epic in your recent tour; now in Sánchez Pizjuán, in Seville. Ten years ago, the then -called Glasgow Rangers went bankrupt and had to be re -established. He still had to go call by another namesimilar but I recognize: officially it is Rangers Football Club. So he started participating from under the funds, the Fourth Division.

Key detail, which tells the meaning of belonging despite the nominal: although it is not strictly the same club, its imprint, its colors, its fans, its spirit, its mythical stadium – a metaphor also- and the feeling is same as the days when Paul Gascoigne or Claudio Caniggia played the universal figures of this sport.

A decade later, his name is once again one of the biggest in Europe. After so much suffering, the support of its people has been crucial from the worst days to recent allocations: at Ibrox Stadium there is almost always gone, some 50,000 viewers in each game its cycle of rearming, of coming out of the dark. “People are important”once said to Dave King, the president of these days.

Rangers FC was born from the club’s purchase of Sevco 5588 Ltd, owned by British businessman Charles Green, at a cost of six and a half million euros. He got up quickly. In just two years he was in this Second Division. At that stage, in a main stadium, just lost three battles.

He failed to climb the top flight on his first attempt, after losing in the Promotion Playoffs against Motherwell, but he made it to the second. He is already in place. Then it’s time to go back to find the glory you usually have 55 Leagues in their showcases. Sa Steven Gerrard as a coach, was able to win the League last season without losingwon the eternal duel against their rival, Celtic, the so -called classic The Old Firm.

Today, one of the most popular teams in Europe (he brought 200,000 people to Manchester for the 2008 UEFA Cup Final and broke all records for Scotland Rise in recent years), preparing for one of her big dates. Led by Gio van Bronckhorst (former footballer for Barcelona and Dutch national team), who arrived after Gerrard’s departure for the Premier League, is aimed at remembering the Glasgow Rangers, who are also wearing blue, who won the European Cup Winners Cup 1972 at Camp Nou against Dinamo Moscow.

Ibrox, metaphor and picture of reconstruction.

The history of Ibrox Park (or Ibrox Stadium since 1997) is the path of a permanent reconstruction. From the founding of the tragedy in 1902 — the first catastrophe in a football stadium, with 25 deaths — to the apparent end of the stigma in 1971, there were 93 deaths that fell in the name of his passion for football and especially for Glasgow Rangers.

At Ibrox this is controversial the match with the largest number of spectators in the history of the United Kingdom: 118,567 fans came out in January 1939 for a classic Scottish League between Celtic and Rangers.

After the disasters, the first version inaugurated into a classic in September 1981 had a capacity for 44,000 viewers. Fans didn’t like that there were vacant spaces between the stands. And they always introduced it. In 1986, from the leadership led by David Holmes, they began to listen to them.

Since then, gradual improvements of all kinds have begun that have even allowed the club to grow in its corporate mass after a strong decline, after the catastrophe of 71 and the uncomfortable renewal of 1981. In early 90s, modernized, similar to major UEFA competitions with areas for fans to enjoy effortlessly, the stadium has reached the current number of 50,987 seats.

Since 1997 it has been called Ibrox Stadium. And, apparently, Those ghosts disappeared and so much pain was healed. And now they want to translate the reconstruction into glory, but in Sánchez Pizjuán.