# Sergio’s stunner lights up El Sardinero on Racing Santander’s emotional La Liga return | Sid Lowe

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/sergios-stunner-lights-up-el-sardinero-on-racing-santanders-emotional-la-liga-return-sid-lowe/
- Published: 2026-08-17T17:15:00+00:00
- Original publisher: The Guardian (publisher lean: Left)
- Original article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/aug/17/sergio-martinez-racing-santander-la-liga-return
- Topics: Americas, Sport, World

## Summary

Teenager’s glorious strike made it 2-0 against Villarreal – but though they were pegged back to a draw the match sealed a feelgood return from the abyss “The poor kid couldn’t believe what had happened; none of us could have if we’d just done what he had just done,” said Álvaro Mantilla, Racing Santander’s captain…

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