The Full Council of Totana yesterday approved unanimously by all political groups moved to the Department of Sports for the Golden Shield Award to the City to Totana Olympic Club to celebrate its 50 anniversary in 2011 , which will see the conclusion of several commemorative events.
During the celebration of the plenum, attended by the presidents who have gone through the Club throughout its history, the Councillor for Sports, José Antonio Valverde Reina, recalled that the club was officially in 1961 with the creation of a youth section of players in this town that started officially allowed in competition and promote the birth of the only team in the Region of Murcia, next to the historic Club Real Murcia, has not ever gone through its long history in the different categories regional football.
The motion includes the mayor of the Olympic Sports has been throughout these five decades one of the main windows of sports promotion, tourism and social.
Totana's Olympic Stadium was initially founded in 1961 under the name of Junior Olympic, and was in 1983 when it adopted the present name.
Has played a total of 21 seasons in the top regional soccer, the Third Division, where he achieved his best qualifying league in the 1999/2000 season to be a leader.
The greatest sporting success was that year he played for the first and only time in its history, the league's promotion to Second Division B, being drawn in Group C4 next to Burriana, Cornell and Manacor.
Finally, said the Councillor for Sports, after a disputed historical league, reached the Castellon club to finish first with 11 points, while Olympic finished second with 10 points.
In the 2002/03 season he returned to Preferred, where he played 4 seasons.
After a new promotion, he managed to spend two seasons at third and went to preferences.
After two difficult years ended descending sporting Autonomous League.
According to Valverde Queen, Olympic has always been the reflection of a philosophy of coexistence and understanding of this sport in this town, where young people have joined a pool Totana had the desire to compete at the highest his hometown team.
In recent years, the city has prompted the granting of this title with other cultural institutions and educational for their contribution to society totanera as has been the musical group, the Coral Santiago and the school made "Reina Sofía", respectively.
