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FERNANDO ALVAREZ
Updated
The match against real Madrid will become a new thermometer about the degree of satiety of the Valencia fans against the main shareholder, Peter Lim. with the team penultimate classified and the sporting and institutional drift of the last five yearsseveral Valencian groups, led by Freedom VCFthey have proposed empty Mestalla until the 19th minute of the match.
That is the minute in which the cries of “Peter, go now.” at the Valencia Coliseum, chosen as a reference to the club’s roots –which was founded in 1919-. It was on this Thursday afternoon when the organizers clarified the nature of the protest, after on December 22 they proposed a ‘comprehensive emptying’ throughout the entire meeting. However, the last time a similar measure was taken – last season against Girona – the official attendance figure exceeded 30,000 peoplealthough there were many complaints about tickets given away. The idea of the protesters is “that when the game starts it will be seen a stand as empty as possible and then joined in the 19th minute to protest against the box,” he explained. Jose Perezpresident of Libertad VCF.
The authors of the well-known yellow banner with the motto “Lim, go home” (Lim, outside) explained that They will distribute thousands of posters before the meeting, but they will have a novelty “to make visible what the club’s problem is now”although they did not want to reveal it until before the game.
José Pérez lamented that from “the Meriton [empresa de Peter Lim que ostenta la mayoría accionarial del club] Valencian is “spreading the image of “a false division in Valencianism”. “There is no such division,” Pérez insisted. “All Valencians want to see Peter Lim out, Layhoon, Solis [director corporativo], Crown [sportsdirectorInmaIbanez [financial director]. But there are people willing to get involved and people who have given up. “Valencianism is hopeless, it has lowered its arms, after ten years of trampling on Meriton.”
The team’s response
Before it was known protest reduction on the street until minute 19,Carlos CorberanValencia’s new coach who makes his debut tonight at Mestalla, was clear: “I have just arrived at Valencia and I respect all debate. But I know the Valencia fans very well and I feel that the Valencia fans are not going to abandon us. They are more knowledgeable than me about the moment, but“I feel like they are going to be with us,” Indian.
I feel that the Valencia fans are not going to abandon us
Carlos Corberán, coach of Valencia
Later, Corberán added that he does not like to “ask the fans for anything.” “We have to give the best of ourselves andThe fans respond when the team gives everything. But above asking for nothing, you have to give them everything. That is the commitment.”
