In March 2021, Ecuador learned of an unprecedented event in national soccer: Michel Deller, the head honcho of Independiente del Valle, headed a business group that bought a foreign soccer team. It was the Spanish club Deportivo Numancia from Soria, which at the time of the acquisition was playing in the second B of the European country.

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Gazette-newspaper of Soria published on February 18, 2021 that “if the group led by Deller is the one providing the money to take over Numancia, the instruments of the operation are Francisco Velázquez de Cuéllar (vice president) and Moisés Israel (president).” The news added that “Velázquez de Cuéllar had to pull employees out of confusion when the Ecuadorian arrived at the club’s facilities to introduce himself as the owner. The sale of Numancia took place Football Newco 18 (business group), but the money was invested by Ecuadorians”.

“Independiente del Valle, the South American soccer sensation, is now also buying other clubs,” emphasizes the Argentine press

Then on 15 June 2021, Santiago Morales, the manager of Independiente del Valle, was officially unveiled as the new president of Numancia, an appointment that was circulated by the Iberian team’s social networks.

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‘The worst Numancia in memory’

Two years after the transaction, the signing, the official introductions and the handshake, ‘The worst Numancia in memory descends on the second RFEF’, headlined the newspaper last Saturday Day of Soria. It added that “the rojillos lose (2-1) against Cornella and the disaster that puts the club’s future under control is over.” The division into which Michel Deller’s team fell corresponds to the fourth level of Spanish football.

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News from Soria He added about sports bad luck: “Numancia, which is going to the Second League through the back door, and which leaves a trail of uncertainty for the future.” Return to the hell of the fourth category of Spanish football. It is the third drop in four years”

IN Dan Soria, and several Spanish media reports the statements of Santiago Morales: “We are optimistic. We were never in the relegation zone, we were between ninth and twelfth position, but suddenly everything collapsed. I take full responsibility.” Meanwhile, Rubén Andrés, Numancia’s sporting director, has resigned.

Papers Papers and clarifications

On Monday, 48 hours after the Numantino disaster, Heraldo-Diario de Soria reported that “two days after the debacle that laid the bones of CD Numancia in the Second Federation, Santiago Morales confirmed that he continues to be president.” In addition, “you bet on the goal of getting out of the mud. “It was a failure,” he admitted.

In the news that the inscription “Goodbye shooting with a bullet” in Heraldo-Diario de Soria reads: “Regarding the stake in Numancia and the rumors circulating on the streets that companies from Soria could enter with a significant stake in the entity, Morales said that ‘everything remains the same in the shareholders’ club.’

Morales responded in this way to the information that appeared on social networks ensuring that Michel Deller and Juan Carlos Serrano, the largest shareholders of Numancia and Independiente del Valle, appear in the Panama Papers with opaque companies, including Dexicorp and Montangello. , with whom they have shares in Numancia. “That’s years ago news,” Morales said.

News from Soria to mention about theme that “in the same way, the club’s top leader (Santiago Morales of Quito) also indicated that the appearance of Michel Deller and Juan Carlos Serrano, shareholders of Numancia, in the Panama Papers ‘does not affect anything’ the entity”.

‘Nine Levels of Hell’

IN Heraldo-Diario de Soria It was emphasized that “social networks also reported that Football Newco 18 – with Moisés Israel, Francisco Velázquez, Michel Deller and Juan Carlos Serrano – the main shareholder of Numancia, would charge the club itself one million euros for the services provided which were labeled as ‘suspicious’. Morales clarified that “this is a situation that happened with the second presidency”, and “stating that he can only speak about these last two years”, he adds in News from Soria.

The descent of Numancia did not go unnoticed by influential newspapers AS, from Madrid. In the column entitled ‘Nine Levels of Hell’, Luis Romera talks about a club that has a million dollar deficit. He comments: “and now, the investment group, the Ecuadorians from Independiente del Valle, are consuming the descent into the well. It is interesting that just two weeks ago this investment group announced the purchase of the Colombian team Atlético Huila. He already has three teams on his account: Independiente, Huila and Numancia”. (D)