The Sevilla board confirmed this Sunday the appointment of José María del Nido Carrasco as president of the club for the next four years. He replaces José Castro, who has held the office since December 2013, who swaps positions with his successor and becomes first vice president. Del Nido Carrasco, a 45-year-old lawyer, joined the Seville governing body as deputy secretary of the council in December 2006, during the presidency of his father, José María del Nido Benavente, and held the positions of secretary, adviser and, for four years, vice president .
His ascension to the presidency is due to the pact signed in 2019 by the main families of Sevilla shareholders, according to which Castro would remain in office until the end of 2023 and Del Nido Carrasco, who represents his family's shares, would serve another four years. However, the desire of his father, also former President José María del Nido Benavente (2002-2013), to return to power has triggered a family war that is being resolved in court and whose main victim is Seville, which is rocked by enormous instability.
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In a statement, the former president and father of Sevilla's new boss described his son's appointment as “the most illegitimate presidency in the club's history”. José María del Nido Benavente, Seville's largest shareholder and whistleblower of the pact, who promoted his son to the presidency, posted on the social network “the right to vote – repeatedly denied by various courts – to continue collecting the salaries of the sultans.” Due to the harassment of his predecessor, who repeatedly referred to him as a “squatter” in recent public appearances, José Castro's sporting successes have not exempted him from hearing calls for his resignation in the stands when, as this season, the results are announced were not cheap.
“Even if I win the League and the Champions League, I will dismiss this board,” says Del Nido Benavente, justifying his intention with the complicated situation of a company that has accumulated losses over the last three years and that has no accounts for the last two seasons haven't even been approved yet. This rejection of the association's management, shown in the last meetings, is due not only to the accumulation of shares by Del Nido Benavente and the American investment group 777 Partners, with which it has allied itself, but also to the resistance of small shareholders that they make to their managers Allegations regarding the high remuneration of board members. At the last meeting he insulted his son: “You are a piece of shit.”
In any case, this New Year's Eve ends the mandate of José Castro Carmona, who has led Sevilla to a sporting bonanza unparalleled in its history: ten European qualifications in as many seasons, including seven for the Champions League and five in fourteen Continental titles were added to the finals held.
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