Real Valladolid will once again have a women’s team after eleven years

ATAuthentic Valladolid will once again have a women’s team eleven years later after signing a partnership agreement with CD Villa de Simancas, which competes in the second regional category and plays in the ‘play off’ for promotion to the GONALPI League.

This was explained by the director of the Cabinet of the Presidency of Real Valladolid, David Spinarand the president of CD Villa de Simancas, Alfonso Gonzalez, at a press conference held on Tuesday in the press room of the Nuevo José Zorrilla stadium.

The deal means the first team from Simanca will be called up Authentic Valladolid Simancas, wear a blanquivioleta shirt and play their matches in the annexes of the Valladolid stadium, as well as the inclusion of a member of the Real Valladolid board of directors in Simancas and the creation of the figure of a coordinator for the management of women’s football in the quarry, which has not yet been announced.

Espinar pointed out that this agreement, which will be extended over three seasons, is “similar to Real Valladolid Basketball” and emphasizes the “commit to the youth academy” and “the social nature” of this sports project.

“It’s a project where we want the girls to grow up, have a strong club in the city that takes care of them, for this reason we will make the team youth system, it will keep the nine bases of soccer teams. in the junior categories. and promises, but we will include three teams that are exclusively made up of girls in the alevín, benjamín and infantil categories ”, he said.

However, Espinar also lamented the loss of Valladolid Sports Club, a parallel structure of Pucela’s grassroots football and which was suppressed in favor of those three women’s clubs exclusively.

“We are very sorry for the parents and children attached to this project to be left without this possibility, but from the club we will be working so that they can choose other locations, always respecting the opinions of the children. . to themselves “, he admits. .

Families and girls interested in being part of Real Valladolid Simancas will be able to access a form on the Real Valladolid website from now until June 19 to register for the entrance exams, which will take place between the 20th and th. 24 of the month of June.

For his part, CD Villa de Simancas president Alfonso González, acknowledged the “greatest responsibility” involved in carrying out this project and insisted that his project would “reach the highest possible” and, if the everything will happen as expected. , “We could be in the National League in two or three years.”

González did not rule out the creation of a second team, although always conditioned on promotion in the category, and indicated that the current coaching staff will continue with a first team with 22 players and the training will be held in the fields of the municipality of Simanca, a few kilometers from the capital Pisuerga.

“This is a very exciting project and we hope to be able to bring it, together, to the top of women’s football”, she declared, where Real Valladolid will work together both in obtaining sponsorships and in technical team development.

The Valladolid team already had a women’s team between 2009 and 2011 when, at the invitation of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, it participated in the Women’s National Super League, finishing in the last places of the classification.

Last season’s poor result (just four wins in 52 games), poor fan compliance and high economic costs forced the management that led then Carlos Suarez announced the disappearance of the women’s section of the club.

The current president of the blanquivioleta club. Ronaldo Nazario, shortly after her arrival at the club she stressed her intention to regain the women’s section and at a recent informative breakfast by the Sports Press Association of Valladolid it was confirmed that it was about to end.