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JUE 29.10.2015
Costa Rica, Belgium, Colombia and Brazil are separated by thousands of kilometers away, but all are united by a common passion: Real Zaragoza. Four countries which are the home, for years, of at least a supporting club that supports, feels and follows everything around a "Maño" club that also this season is bidding strongly for promotion to Liga BBVA.
Of the 114 official supporting clubs that comprise the club from Zaragoza, four of them are spread throughout the world. In the association Amigos de Aragón, at Brussels, club members enjoy the team games every weekend from a place in the city center and use football as a springboard to organize all kinds of activities that are built around culture and gastronomy of the Aragon region.
October 12 is also celebrated in style in Brazil, where years ago was born a supporters club that goes by the name of biggest festivity of Zaragoza. La "Peña 12 de octubre" never misses any of the latest news of the team, even if they have to stay up late to watch the games. In a region of central Colombia, Zaragoza has made happy a group of children who, thanks to sport and social initiative of some fans, are playing in Academia Real Zaragoza of Girardot with the equipment and the enthusiasm of the club.
In Costa Rica, the interest of one of the most fervent supporters of the "Blanquiazul" club, Eduardo Lanaspa, led to the founding of the Supporters Club "El Alacrán" As he himself has acknowledged on more than one occasion it takes "the colors of the club" wherever he goes and now, from the Costa Rican town of Turrialba, does his best to bring to his classmates and friends the whole history of the "Maño" team.
They all come from different cultures, but are united by the same feeling. This year, the challenge is to see Real Zaragoza getting promotion again to Liga BBVA and celebrate it from their little corner in the world
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