Sevilla's Falcon Crest or the flight forward of a club broken inside
Kick forward from the Board of Directors of Sevilla Fútbol Club. Pepe Castro president, José María del Nido Carrasco vice president, Diego Alonso as coach and the promise of a new stadium as candy for less exquisite palates. The threat of José María del Nido Benavente, the lightning that does not stop, is still there; but it is still early to consummate his revenge plan. Time moves slowly. The club continues its flight into the unknown. Ripped inside. With disappointing football. Embraced by credits and the reduction in salary costs. Crisis. What a crisis.
“You never know what's going to happen in Falcon Crest,” says Angela Channing with a glass of champagne in her hand in one of her episodes. From California's Napa Valley to Seville's Nervión neighborhood is a 20-hour flight, but the tension between families unites what seems distant. José María del Nido Benavente wants to recover what was once his. His son objects. Pepe Castro takes advantage of their differences to extend his power. Traditional surnames, tension around the stadium and lawyers. Many lawyers. The Sevilla Fútbol Club is a series where only those in charge win and the fan always loses.
«My return is irreversible; If it's not tomorrow, it's the day after,” said José María del Nido two years ago. But it won't be this fall either.. The “no” of the head of Commercial Court number 2 diluted his hope. Del Nido wanted to have a voice and vote at the General Shareholders' Meeting held yesterday, but an agreement signed in 2019 with the rest of the families has prevented it again.. The rejection of the precautionary measures requested by the former president forces him to continue waiting. The Castro, Guijarro, Alés and Carrión breathe a sigh of relief. Del Nido ships in X.
parricidal war
«Sevilla FC cannot wait. The squatters' pockets hurt, Sevilla hurts me,” he wrote in a statement.. In that pact, which has frozen his options to return to command the club, it was agreed “the annual remuneration of the directors” which “will be 1% of the income for the fiscal year, computing for these purposes both the ordinary income and the extraordinary». Amounts that can be around 750,000 euros per year, in the case of President José Castro, and more than 500,000 euros for the first vice president, José María del Nido Carrasco..
The relationship between father and son is broken. Del Nido Benavente spent more than three and a half years in prison. Since his release, all his vital enthusiasm has been focused on returning to the presidency of the club of his heart.. He feels betrayed by Junior, his son. He speaks of sentimental and heroic reasons for the institutional and sporting deterioration of the entity, but from his hand also come some American investors, 777 partners, who already own shares in clubs such as Genoa, Vasco de Gama, Standard de Liege, Estrella Roja and Hertha Berlin. The son becomes strong. The father is frustrated and tired of trying.
Instability, interests and football drift make Sevillismo begin to position itself in a parricidal and endless war. In the matches, whistles are given to the current board and, since the return of Del Nido does not generate confidence, they subscribe to a third way, that of supporting the team until the families find a consensus solution that implies a succession that does not pass through the arrival of foreign capital. A dream that does not seem to come true. Yesterday, the Biris Norte entertainment group gathered around the door of the Meliá Lebreros Hotel, where the shareholders debated and audited the accounts.. «Club adrift. “Out of Sevilla,” was the motto that read on their banner..
The General Meeting of Shareholders of Sevilla, met on Monday.
José María del Nido Carrasco, sooner or later, will be the next president of Sevilla FC. He has been preparing for it, with psychological support, coaching and even public speaking classes.. His presence in the media, his “desire to be seen as in charge”, in the words of a club worker, broke one of the pillars of the entity and its successes: Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo, Monchi. The Caesarism of Junior, who came to make sporting decisions against Monchi's opinion, ended the love affair between the former goalkeeper born in San Fernando and the Board of Directors..
«I need to be a reference on a day-to-day basis, for everything, it is my way of understanding this. “I could have stayed, but maybe the club model is different,” he said in his farewell.. Víctor Orta, his replacement, is already pointed out by fans for erratic staff planning, the dismissal of José Luis Mendilibar and the whim of a Diego Alonso who is hardly a tightrope walker.. The club arrived at the Shareholders' Meeting after a tie, another one, for Sevilla in the League. It was against Villarreal, in another terrible clash. Diego Alonso has only won one game, against CD Quintanar, preferably, in the Copa del Rey. The Uruguayan has played ten games. That distant victory, four defeats and five draws. A disaster.
“Lies as arguments”
Institutionally, chaos. The businesses of President José Castro, Vice President José María del Nido Carrasco and Counselor Carolina Alés woke up last week with graffitied threats. Furthermore, the counselor experienced a kind of shock after the Champions League match against PSV. A match that, by the way, was the team's farewell in the Champions League. The tension in the club's surroundings, in the run-up to the ordinary Sevilla shareholders meeting, ended with a redouble of police checks and complaints from the three directors against Del Nido Benavente for threats, coercion, insults and incitement to hatred. Football does not flourish in a parched land.
Del Nido Benavente, upon arrival at the General Shareholders' Meeting.
At the Meeting, Junior announced the construction of a new stadium and salary relief for the first team. «It is difficult to work when you are constantly being tripped up, when lies are used as arguments, when you are made a target, but that cannot serve as an excuse to give up, but rather the opposite.. We have something that is there, which are the achievements, and that no one can argue with us even if some insist on ignoring them,” said Pepe Castro.. He was heading to Del Nido Benavente, who tried to dynamite the assembly in vain..
With the accounts and management down in the vote, the club continues to cling to the curb to avoid drowning. The battle for the actions, the stubbornness of Del Nido and the inconsistency of Castro, condemn Sevilla to pilgrimage for one more season in the highest category of Spanish football. Without a future plan, without a competitive squad, without institutional stability, without leadership or strategy, the Sevillian club clings to chance and manhood.. The grass sometimes serves to disguise what happens in the offices. Although it doesn't seem like it in this troubled football course and transparent coaches. Life goes on the same in Nervión. Wash underfoot. Unfathomable egos. And money. Money like a shadow that darkens everything.