“Good news was absolutely necessary”

The first administration of La Bañeza was the undisputed protagonist of this lucky star. “We are very happy to have distributed the first prize“Not only with what was sold in La Bañeza, but also with the exchanges that were made with La Pola de Gordón, Villablino and Madrid,” said the owner of the lottery, Ana María de la Fuente. He had a “huge” burst of emotion when he saw the number and knew it was his. Because 79432 has been coming from this administration for years. “It’s been more than three decades since El Gordo ended in 2,” commented a lottery that takes statistics very closely into account.

And this establishment, where people continued to arrive throughout Monday morning, Gordo’s 198 series is gone, fruit of exchanges with these two neighboring cities but also with Madrid. In addition, he brought luck in the form of hundreds of tenths to the Malaga bar “El Leonés”, whose owners descend from the city, and to the small town of Manzaneda, with 22 registered inhabitants, where its Association of Bell Ringers also distributed this same number.

If anyone also helped spread good luck in La Bañeza, a municipality of León with around 15,000 inhabitants, It was the town football team: a total of 67 series, or more than 200 million, distributed among family members, neighbors, relatives and local establishments. “We have been playing this number for 17 years and we have never had a single sad stone,” said club president Gonzalo Prieto. The players, coaches and technical staff were responsible for selling the tickets, of which the team also kept a portion.

“That won’t give us enough for a new area, but we also have something left,” he believes. “He fixed our lives,” also said player Pablo Aceves, who, like much of the team, learned the good news through the supporters’ WhatsApp group. “We all thought it was a joke. But it’s true!”, he explained.

The “La Llanera” stadium became a party where emotion, songs and hugs reigned. There, the number 15 of the team, Francisco Javier Amo Nestares, showed his enthusiasm for having managed to make a fortune in a family of ten brothers and sisters. “I’m going to pay off my dad’s house and finish paying off my car.”said this young man from Burgos whose work brought him to La Bañeza.

A total of 182 series remained on the lands of Léonwith 117 in the municipality of Bañezano, 50 registered in Villablino and 15 others in La Pola, which throughout the morning of Monday spread euphoria in the areas of La Valduerna, Laciana and the Central Mountain of León, as neighbors and the lucky approached the administrations.

An area that, as the mayor of Bañeza, Javier Carrera, told, was filled with “enthusiasm and hope” in a year 2025 that was “very sad” before. the closure of La Azucarera and the forest fires who devastated this land during the summer. “The truth is that we needed good news,” admitted enthusiastically, with “tremendous joy”, the mayor of Villablino, Mario Rivas. And we must not forget that it was “a hard and very difficult year”, marked by the death of five miners from the Laciana region and another from Bierzo in two accidents in two wells in Asturias, when the León mines had already been closed for seven years.

The Leonese Laciana Valley combined emotions, tears of joy and nostalgia in the celebrations after the “Christmas gift” left by the lottery jackpot, with 200 million euros, widely distributed among neighbors, thanks to the Association of Relatives of Alzheimer’s Disease and Lacian Dementia (AFADLA).

LONG sold 500 tenths of this number 79432which he had acquired at the Loterías de Mónica Menéndez de Lama office on Avenida de la Constitución central in Villablino. Its objective was to raise the funds necessary to purchase a vehicle adapted to the users it serves. “Now we have a van,” said Isabel Bares, director of the Villaseca de Laciana center. Accompanied by families and workers, she could not hide her emotion, while wiping away the tears of joy which also flowed from her companions. And he added that the tenths sold “stayed here, unless a tourist bought them”: “Basically, they are residents of Laciana and Babia who collaborate with us.”

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A number ending in 2

It was a customer, probably a resident of the Ventas neighborhood, who one day entered number 8 Ricardo Ortiz street to place an order: 10 sets, or what amounts to the same thing, 100 tenths, but on one condition. The number should end with 2so the head of 246 administration, Esther Lanchas, saw 79432 hanging from her window and was quick to catch him. Coincidence among many others, chance wanted to return this time in the form of a Gordo, 40 million intended for an artistic association in the Embajadores district. Thus, as happened last year with a modest basketball club, the majority of the prizes distributed in Madrid were once again paid through participation.

Of the rest, the lottery indicated this Monday, at least the last 6 or 7 tenths were sold to residents of the area. “But know that we have been in the Christmas campaign since June, so I don’t remember who bought the first ones either.“, added this woman who, at 43, had just presented the most important prize of her life. Hers and that of her father, José Lanchas, founder of the administration in 1988.

Esther herself, heir to the business after José retired three Christmases ago, told her husband to stay home with the child. “I thought it would be a quiet day and only in the afternoon there would be a bit more excitement because people would start arriving to collect the prizes,” he said. Minor rewards, of course. But as luck would have it, at 10:44 a.m., on the fourth wire of the fourth table, the children of San Ildefonso sang 79432 and everything I imagined would turn 180 degrees. “I was answering inside and the phone rang. “I think it was one of you (referring to the journalists) who told me the news,” he recalled.

From there, chaos and happiness invaded the enclave in equal measure. “I called my husband, my parents and here we all are,” she commented, without wanting to make the happy association public. “I haven’t spoken to them yet, if they give me the ‘ok’, I’ll tell you without any problem,” he explained, which partly fueled the rumor in the neighborhood. behind the scenes, The name heard was Isegoríaan “independent forum for analysis and critical reflection for a more democratic, just and egalitarian society” (according to the definition of its website), whose members have chosen to remain in a discreet context.