Mallorca CF. Old News. Gabriel Adrover. Midfield player

Mallorca CF. Old News. Gabriel Adrover. Midfield player

Gabriel Adrover Today

The news item, probably from the 1974-75 season (51 years ago), appeared in "Fiesta Deportiva," a weekly newspaper in Palma. I don't know who wrote the article. At that time, Gabriel Adrover was a youth player for Mallorca and the Balearic Islands Youth Football Team (older Mallorca fans reading this will surely remember him). According to the author of the article, originally written in Spanish for "Fiesta Deportiva," Adrover was the best midfielder in the Balearic Islands.

 

THE BALEARIC YOUTH TEAM'S RIDICULOUS SHOWDOWN

"The unanimous opinion of Mallorcan fans is that our Youth Team, against Murcia, made a complete fool of itself."

Why? Let us explain. In our humble opinion, we believe that the appointment of the coach, Mr. Perales, too late” – a month before the match was played. In that short time, it was impossible for Perales to even know what the best raw material on the island was…

“Therefore, Perales couldn’t field the ideal team due to a lack of precise knowledge…

“The Balearic team failed to control the midfield during the ninety minutes. We believe that if Adrover, from the Mallorca youth team, who was on the bench, had come onto the field, he would have made things better. Adrover, until proven otherwise, is the best midfielder in the Balearic Islands. But it seems that Mr. Perales is unaware of this.

The comments heard around the stadium – we don’t know if they were justified or not – were that only those with connections have a place on our team…

There was much discussion about the absence of the driving force behind the Balearic Federation, Mr. Sebastián Alzamora…

Once the match was over, the Real Mallorca director, Pedro A. Campaner told us: "In Murcia, at the very least, they'll score a dozen goals against us..."

Fiesta Deportiva

Original newspaper clipping (yellowed with age)

Youth selection from that time.

Gabriel Adrover is the second, beginning of the assaguts' querra.