The coach arrested in Coslada for abusing minors had the negative sexual crimes certificate

At 39, Francisco Javier Up, born in Venezuela but nationalized Spanish, is already a globetrotter of the banquillos of Madrid base football. In the last three years he has gone through at least three teams: one from Paracuellos del Jarama, another from Torrejón de Ardoz and one last, the coslada CD, whose facilities engrated last Saturday before the match that his cadet B was going to play Against the Ensanche Ray. In the midst of the Runrún, he had to be the second coach of one of the children who took his place to lead the players, adolescents aged 14 and 15, whom the now detainee trained since September.

Francisco Javier was consistent with the Provincial Court of Madrid for abuse and sexual assault on minors, so the agents of the Central UDyco of the Fugitives Section had initiated an investigation to find their whereabouts. And they found him in the field of El Olivo, minutes before 6.30 pm, when the game of his pupils was about to start. “The coach of the other team called me, with whom I keep friendship, to tell me that the police had taken the coach,” the president of the coslada CD told ABC, without knowing until that moment nothing that was in him about him .

The arrested, resident in Alcalá de Henares, was barely had a half season at the Cosladeño club, where to be federated, the certificate of crimes of a sexual nature issued by the Ministry of Justice that proves the lack of criminal record of this type had to present, mandatory, mandatory Since 2016 for all professionals and volunteers who usually work with minors.

After knowing the unpleasant news, from the club they chose to save caution and wait to have all possible information. “The families of the players are aware of everything,” added the top leader, without knowing the facts for which he has now been arrested. «We have not received any complaint that would have suspected us; In fact, I know that the parents were happy, ”he stressed, convinced that if there were any episode investigated by the police that concerned the coslada CD they would have received some communication from the agents.

Although the campaign began with an assistant, Francisco Javier later went to the cadet team alone. “We were looking for a second, because he did not want the one to have,” said the president, who has already taken the appropriate measures to expel him from the institution. “Years ago we had a similar case,” he recalled, aware of how delicate these situations are.

Club statement

In the middle of yesterday, the coslada CD published on its social networks a statement in relation to the aforementioned facts. “As the club has been able to know, it is an ongoing investigation, whose initiation was unknown, having not communicated by the investigated or by the police,” said the note, in which they also took the opportunity to express their absolute rejection of the behaviors that threaten sexual integrity (“especially against minors”); and they stressed again that they had, prior to their incorporation, with the certificate of negative sexual crimes required by current regulations.

Despite this, they announced the opening of an internal investigation to analyze what happened: “Although the facts investigated are oblivious to the club since it did not occur within it.”