Spain’s second division is the most geographically diverse league in western Europe. It doesn’t merely span two countries, but two continents, with teams based on three different land masses.
On Saturday, Andorra FC owner and former Barcelona player Gerard Pique was pictured helping shovel deep snow from the pitch so that his team could entertain Cultural Leonesa in the landlocked Pyrenean principality. Much further south, for a team to travel to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands usually takes three hours of flying.
The newest arrival to the league have added yet more diversity, since they’re located in Africa. AD Ceuta, based in the autonomous Spanish city of the same name, sits on the Strait of Gibraltar, bordered by Morocco to the south, the Mediterranean to the east and the Atlantic to the west.
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