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About this drawing

Out on the Atlantic edge of northwest Spain, the Deportivo La Coruna crest stands for a port city with a stubborn streak. The club was founded in 1906 and soon received royal backing from King Alfonso XIII, which explains the crown. Its shape is unusual too, since the emblem is built around a pennant, the kind of flag you might see on a ship.

A Coruña, as locals write it, belongs to Galicia, a green, rainy corner of Spain with deep ties to the sea. The city's best-known landmark is the Tower of Hercules, a Roman lighthouse that still guides boats today. The home stadium, Riazor, sits right beside a beach, so salty Atlantic air drifts across the field on stormy days. Fans wear blue and white stripes and shorten the club's name to Depor.

For most of its history the team lived well below the wealthy clubs of Madrid and Barcelona. That changed in the 1990s, when a bold side came close to the championship more than once. People called it Super Depor. Finally, in the 1999-2000 season, it won the Spanish league, the first club from Galicia ever to do so. Think of a small-market team beating the big spenders in baseball and you get a sense of how much that title meant to the town.

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