The Spanish Football Federation announced this Saturday that the Estepona Sports Club is the team that has the right to occupy the vacancy in the Second Federation for economic reasons generated by the liquidation of the Extremadura UD. The payment by part of the 512,149.95 euros at which RFEF assessed that square puts an end, at least apparently, to one of the soap operas that has surrounded football in the lower categories this summer. The other team that opted for it was UD Extremadura 1924, a newly created entity.
The CD Esteponawhich last season achieved promotion to the Third Federation and which a few months ago was bought by the businessman Juan Jose Hidalgo makes a leap in the offices and manages to climb two categories in the same year after the Federation announced this Saturday the resolution of the Sole Judge of Non-Professional Competitions.
According to the resolution of Single Competition Judge«the vacant place corresponds to CD Estepona since it has better sporting merit than CD Extremadura 1924, since the former plays in the Third Division National League Championship (Third RFEF) while the latter participates in the Extremaduran second division of football”.
After joining the club, Pepe Hidalgo already announced that his intention was to take CD Estepona to the national category. “We are going to start from scratch. Let no one forget that I arrived at Salamanca with the team in Segunda B and we ended up being promoted to Primera».
???? Sole Judge Resolution of Non-Professional Competitions
➡️Segunda B – Second Federation
???? Club Deportivo Estepona has the right to occupy the vacancy for economic reasons generated by the liquidation of Extremadura UD.
➡️ Resolution: https://t.co/l0M0nl44WZ pic.twitter.com/hln7YzPBVu
— RFEF (@rfef) August 20, 2022
President of the missing Salamanca Sports Union in five different stages over three decades, Juan José Hidalgo Acera, president of the tourism group Globaliareturned to football a few months ago through the acquisition of Club Deportivo Estepona, with which he intends to climb the rungs in the pyramid of Spanish football.
The return of Juan José Hidalgo Acera (Villanueva del Conde, Salamanca, 1941) to football is parallel to the millionaire investment that the businessman plans to make in this town on the Costa del Sol, where he will create two luxury tourist complexes that will generate more than a thousand jobs.
Hidalgo was already linked to the world of football through the Salamanca Sports Union, which he joined for the first time in 1987. His time in that first stage was fleeting but later, and with the conversion of the entity into a sports joint-stock company of the entity, ended up becoming the president who was in charge of the club for the longest consecutive years, from 1992 to 2003. Among the fans of the defunct charro entity, however, the memory that Hidalgo left behind is not positive because the club ended up disappearing little after his passing. “He created the club’s debt, he refused a solution. He left a terrible memory, without a doubt, he was the absolute culprit of the disappearance of the Union ».
