In a development that reflects the overwhelming anger among Real Valladolid fans, supporter groups have called for former Brazilian star Ronaldo Naz\u00e1rio, the club\u2019s president and majority owner, to be declared a \u201cpersona non grata\u201d in the city, following the team\u2019s official relegation to Spain\u2019s second division.<\/p>\n
According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, the team\u2019s supporters, who have repeatedly expressed their dissatisfaction with Ronaldo\u2019s management of the club, escalated their protests this time with an official statement from the Federation of Supporters’ Associations. The statement called on the Valladolid City Council to take the unprecedented step of declaring Ronaldo an unwelcome figure in the city.<\/p>\n
The statement said: \u201cHis sporting management has been disastrous, having sold many players and run the team with poor planning. On the social level, he insulted the fans by calling them radicals, did not attend a single match at the Jos\u00e9 Zorrilla Stadium throughout the season, and showed complete indifference to the team’s matches, damaging the reputation of the club, its supporters, and the city alike.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement added: \u201cWe demand that no agreements be signed with the club regarding municipal land as long as Mr. Naz\u00e1rio remains president and the main shareholder.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Marca, these demands coincide with ongoing uncertainty over the sale of the club, with an American investment group\u2014considered the frontrunner to buy the club\u2014expected to make its final decision before the deadline of May 15.<\/p>\n
Ronaldo, who has been president of Valladolid for the past seven years, has overseen three relegations to the second division during his tenure\u2014something the fans see as proof of his failed leadership and a sufficient reason for his departure from the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a development that reflects the overwhelming anger among Real Valladolid fans, supporter groups have called for former Brazilian star Ronaldo Naz\u00e1rio, the club\u2019s president and majority owner, to be declared a \u201cpersona non grata\u201d in the city, following the team\u2019s official relegation to Spain\u2019s second division. According to the Spanish newspaper Marca, the team\u2019s …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48095,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48094\/revisions\/48095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}