The Cup final 1995 He was played on two different days

Last update 17 April, 2024 by Alberto Llopis

There was a 24 June 1995 but for some it seems like yesterday. Valencia and Deportivo Coruna faced in the final of the Copa del Rey this year at the Santiago Bernabeu. The Valencians, they reached a final after two almost two decades of very little relevance while the athletes, they faced their first final and the possibility of reaching a title after having lost the League at the last minute and missing a penalty a year before. Precisely against Valencia.

The final had all the ingredients of a great match. The finals, were equal and other teams that were not the greats, they had a chance to be champions. This is how the match went, fought like the most and that he was tied to 1 after Manjarín's goals for Depor and Mijatovic for Valencia.

The Cup final 1995: The water final that was played in 2 different days

A final that was interrupted in the minute 79 when the sky seemed to open up over Madrid to release a true universal deluge that ended up flooding not only the lawn and the stands of the Madrid Coliseum but even the changing room tunnel. The image of the players running to the changing rooms before the downpour was one of the many mythical images of a final that was so atypical that it was marked in the history of the competition.

The match resumed 3 days later and Depor took the Cup

The match, had to resume three days later to play the 11 minutes left. A few minutes that were fateful for the Valencian fans and glorious for the sports fans, since with a headed goal by Alfredo Santaelena, possibly the shortest player on the pitch, who got ahead of a Zubizarreta who took him out 20 centimeters, they managed to proclaim themselves champions of the Copa del Rey for the first time in their history. Curiously, they won their second Cup title on the same stage at the mythical “Centennial“, but that's another story. The final went down in history as the final that was played on two different days.