Surreal! Deportivo pineapple frenzy forces police and their party to intervene | Relief
“Who lives in a pineapple underwater?” This could be the soundtrack to the popular TV series SpongeBob SquarePants or the new motto of Deportivo de La Coruña as they return to professional football. The state of ecstasy experienced in the city is difficult to describe. The team is enjoying one of its best moments since being promoted to the second division B and winning four games in a row. The last one with a score of 0-5! against SD Logrones, in a power shift that goes hand in hand with apparent growth as the pineapple has become a viral symbol inside and outside the dressing room. This time, though, things got a little out of hand: two real pine cones were thrown, causing the referee to notify the police and stop play for four minutes.
To the beginning, Lucas Perez became the protagonist of this story with a pineapple at the epicenter.. The striker scored a brace in the first half, which was enough to get the game back on track and secure another three points for his team. During the break, Mella scored a masterful goal with a shot from outside the penalty area. Already in the second half, Barbero and Raul Alcaina completed the victory in a category in which very few can win by more than one goal.
“The goal was to go after them, to look for them. It belongs to everyone. Those who left, those who came in later, it’s a shame that everyone’s work is not visible, but we are on the right track. We already talked about the difficulty of January, we have good dynamics, but we need to be careful,” Idiakes noted after the victory.
It is this regret that the work of the players who were unable to take part is not noticed that is a good expression of the spirit that breathes in the Deportivo dressing room. It looks like a magical theme. Moreover, this Saturday they again donned a second uniform, reminiscent of the pineapple colors. and that it is almost a ritual that turns into triumphs.
Deportivo are already third in the league table after 23 games this season… in which they were in the relegation position!!! The team’s exponential growth already puts them in first place, just four points behind leader Nastic, who is also enjoying stellar results. Between them is Ponferradina, who has 44.
Collective delirium, in which even the police intervene
Already in Riazor, Deportivo fans carried cardboard pineapples onto the field, which eventually reached the players., which they celebrated with one of them. It’s worth remembering that the motto comes from the unification of the dressing room, the similarity to the second kit and the peculiar rage of its fans, who no longer understand their Twitter account without the accompanying pineapple emoji.
But this Saturday the collective delirium went too far: the first two goals were shots from two natural pine cones.. The referee not only recorded this in the protocol, but also asked the police to stand next to the sports fans to prevent this from happening again. Here’s what the arbitration protocol says:
“9 minutes into the match, after Deportivo scored, several players came to celebrate their goal with the visiting fans, without causing any security problems, who were in the stands behind the goal where the goal was scored. A Deportivo fan, identified by the club’s T-shirt and scarf, throws a natural pine cone onto the field of play, which has no effect on any player. The Field Delegate is asked to notify this through the public address system so that this attitude will cease and the match will resume from the start of the match in favor of SD Logrones when the public notification comes into effect.
In the 19th minute of the match, after Deportivo scored a goal, the players repeated the celebration, and a natural pineapple was again thrown into the same area of the stands as last time, in addition to a plastic seat, neither of these two objects affect any player, and this is not the goal. In this case, the field delegate is again contacted, who notifies the National Police Security Coordinator of the incident and, after descending onto the playing field, is asked to increase police presence in the area as much as possible. stands to prevent this from happening again, agents of the National Police and the stadium’s own security were dispatched to this area, not repeated for the remainder of the match, restarted without further incident with the kick-off in favor of SD Logrones after play was stopped for four minutes“.
