Football
CD Estepona took over the vacancy for which the ‘new’ Extremadura also bid
Águilas FC will not play in the Second RFEF next season. The club chaired by Alfonso García has decided not to bid in the third term, for a value of €512,149.95, losing the opportunity to keep the vacancy of Extremadura in Group V. Finally, the place will be occupied by Club Deportivo Estepona, a group Andalusian who would play in the Third Division.
The reason for not bidding in this third term was the doubts of the owner of the club. Alfonso García did not see it feasible to pay half a million euros to play in a group where Águilas would be the club in all of Spanish football that would cover the most kilometers in the season, almost 22,000, traveling by road to the community of Extremadura, flights to the island of La Palma and Melilla, and having the trip to Socuéllamos as the closest trip.
García did consider bidding if the fourth auction deadline was reached, valued at just over €250,000. He assured that money was not a problem, but that he could not follow the day-to-day activities of the club regularly as the schedule was disrupted during the week due to long trips every fortnight. However, this extreme has not been reached and the team led by Sebas López will play in Group XIII of the Third Division, where they start as favorites for promotion. The aquiline businessman, who does not usually miss games both at home and away, would have a very difficult time traveling home and combining it with his business if he had stayed with the square.
The RFEF made it official, through its website, that the vacant place will finally be filled by CD Estepona. CD Extremadura 1924 also bid, a team that emerges without debt after the disappearance of the team that left the vacancy and that will finally play in the Second Extremeña. Once the intention to occupy the place before Thursday has been presented, and the requested money has been deposited before the end of Friday, the Federation has studied and verified that there is no anomaly in Estepona’s request and will be the one to keep the place, having better sporting merit than Extremadura 1924.
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