The emotional homage of Sporting to the deceased in the Cerredo mine: a mining choir sings 'Holy Santa Barbara' in El Molinón

A new world order that sends its pawns underground again in the eternal race of geopoliticsFrom the 'king of coal' to the fever of graphite: the Cerredo mine, the well of 'last generation' that leaves five dead The image of the Spanish miner takes us to another time: we associate it with a darker and more precarious stage of our history, without just labor rights, without environmental awareness, in which the economic objective was always brazen…

That was the general feeling in El Molinón-Quini in the prolegómenas of the encounter between Sporting and Tenerife, which in the end would result in hard defeat for the locals (1-3) and dismissal of the coach.But in those previous moments it was not that that mattered and it is that some voices, many of them tanned in the hard work under the Asturian lands, enveloped all the corners of the stadium to the son of 'The well of María Luisa' , popul…

Emotional tribute in the stadium of El Molinón, in Gijón. El Coro Minero de Turón, formed by 17 veterans dressed with their monkeys and helmets, performed on the lawn ‘In the Maria Luisa well’, also known as ‘Santa Bárbara Bendita’, considered the unofficial anthem of Asturian mining. A gesture towards the five miners who died in grey gas bagging last Monday at the Cerredo mine, located in the council of Degaña. It was this Saturday, April 5, ju…

Last Monday, five miners died and four others were injured in an explosion at the Cerredo mine, located in Degaña (Asturias). After a week of mourning throughout the Principality, El Molinón Stadium held a moving tribute to those who died this Saturday. Before the start of the match between Sporting de Gijón and Tenerife, a group of miners sang the anthem "Santa Bárbara Bendita," a song deeply rooted in Asturian mining culture. The song is actua…

Tribute to the recently deceased miners in Cerredo mine

The previous one of Sporting-Tenerife was dressed in mourning and respect. El Coro Minero de Turón toned the Santa Bárbara Bendita, an anthem of the Asturian mining valleys, to honor the five miners who lost their lives last Monday at the third level of the Cerredo mine, in Degaña. It is the most tragic accident recorded in the Asturian mining since August 1995, when 14 workers died the Nicolasa well of Hunosa because of the grisou.Continue read…