Page 30 - CHESSINGTON & HOOK UTD vs DEPORTIVO GALICIA - 2019-20 Season

WELCOME only the essence of the ‘Real Club Deportivo

La Coruna’ but also the spirit and heart of
DEPORtiVO the whole of Galicia.
Until 1995 the team played in the ‘Harlseden
Sunday League’ and progressed continually
GALiCiA apulted into the first division for the 1991-
and consistently which saw them slowly cat-

1992 season.
This would become the most successful and

The founding and birth of FC Deporti- fruitful era in the clubs history so much so
that in the 1993-94 season the team won
vo Galicia in London came about due every competition it took part in. The club
to a shared understanding and senti- did not only win the treble, first division,
ment by a group of Galician migrants Premier Cup and the Challenge Cup but
who came to the United Kingdom in they also accomplished the Roundwood in-
the 60s. door football tournament.
The political and economic situation sur- The second team that was formed in the
rounding Spain at the time was so difficult 1991-92 season was also successful during
that families found themselves making the this period winning trophies such as the
choice to settle in an unknown country in the Dwyer Cup.
hope of a better and more prosperous future. The club decided to take the next logical step
The most trying thing for these families was in progression and move up a level as a re-
the constant nostalgic battle on a day to day sult of achieving all they could within their
basis remembering and missing the land that reach.
gave them life, the territory they belonged to. For the 1995-96 season, the team began play-
During the 60’s it was west London that saw ing in the Middlesex County league on Sun-
the majority of Galician migrants settle down days.
and it was in 1968 that a small group of those In this first year, the first team won the sec-
migrants saw an opportunity, through foot- ond division league and were consequently
ball, to help each other and somehow share awarded Intermediate Status by the London
the longing they felt for Spain. FA.
The club was originally formed under the The club continued to prosper until reaching
name ‘Centro Gallego de Londres’ however the first division in the 1997-98 season. It is
a few years later it joined forces with another at this point when for the first time there are
Spanish team called ‘Deportivo’ (a club that signs of instability in the club as there is a
was formed in honour and in memory of FC clear high turnover in coaches without man-
Deportivo in a foreign country) and so came aging to fulfil the clubs potential and never
the creation of ‘FC Deportivo Galicia de Lon- achieving the level expected of them.
dres’. The name, perceptibly capturing not As the 2006-07 season drew to an end the