In March of the coming year, he will be able to exercise his professional activity as a lawyer again José María del Nido Benavente (Sevilla, 1957), president who was of Sevilla Fútbol Club from May 2002 to December 2013. Under his tenure, the Nervión entity took off towards the titles (two Europa Leagues, two Copas del Rey, a European Super Cup and another of Spain) and He turned around more than 60 years of mediocrity like this, without a final even to put in the mouth. Something that in these days of unfinished glory already sounds almost like an unreal nightmare.
Parallel to the undeniable brilliance of his presidency at Sánchez-Pizjuán, citizen Del Nido Benavente he has another much less favorable history with the Spanish justice system, which led him to jail for more than 3 years. Lawyer for the mayors of Marbella Jesús Gil and Julian Muñoz, Del Nido was indicted along with Muñoz and Juan Antonio Roca in the so-called Minutes Case, after having billed the Marbella town hall up to 6.7 million euros between 1999 and 2003. In December 2013, the Supreme Court sentenced him to a sentence of seven years in prison, with five and a half years of disqualification from employment or public office, as a necessary cooperator for a qualified crime of embezzlement of public funds and a continuous crime of prevarication. The Supreme Court certified that Del Nido contributed to the looting of the coffers of the Marbella City Council for the irregular fees that it received from this consistory between 1999 and 2003. On March 5, 2014, Del Nido was incarcerated and achieved third grade on April 21, 2017.
Since he was released from prison, with around 25 percent of Sevilla’s shares in his hands and another 10 percent under control, the former president does not cease in its efforts to regain power despite the fact that the club has not stopped collecting money (4 more Europa Leagues, the last in August 2020), finals (two more in the Copa del Rey, in 2016 and 2018, in addition to the four European Super Cups) and milestones in the Champions League, with several classifications and having reached the quarterfinals in 2018. His war with the current Council transcends the public and reaches the most personal, to the point of no longer maintain any relationship with one of his six children, José María del Nido Carrasco, current vice president. Only several weeks have passed from the last great episode in this battle: the Shareholders’ Meeting at the end of October 2021, in which allied with the investment group Sevillistas Unidos 2020, known as’ Americanos’, the lawyer tried again to unseat the current government of the club, without success.
In a story less known outside of Andalusia, it must be remembered that before being president, Del Nido had already been Vice-secretary of the Board of Directors of Sevilla since 1986, with just 29 years old, and who later acceded to the vice-presidency under the mandate of Luis Cuervas. In August 1995, the lawyer faced one of the biggest institutional crises in the club’s history, after his exclusion from the Professional Football League and his subsequent relegation to Second Division B due to the lack of presentation of guarantees in the set time. Following Cuervas’ resignation, Del Nido held the interim presidency until October. The problems were finally resolved and Sevilla maintained the category with the famous expansion of the First Division to 22 teams.
This ‘what happened to’ therefore has much to write, a long ‘what will be’. Those who know Del Nido, a more intimate circle, They assure that the former president will not give up in his efforts to control Sevilla again until justice says otherwise. There are many commercial lawsuits, with the threat of some criminal, that have been imposed in recent months by the lawyer and the directive by virtue of a governance pact signed three years ago that the aspiring party continues to breach, at least in the vision of the current Council. At 64 years of age, just short of what should be his professional retirement, Del Nido refuses to give up the desire to direct again the passion that most celebrity (of the good, at least) has given him in life: Sevilla Fútbol Club.
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