“When the Tartiere vibrates, Oviedo wins games; the team is going to fight, the league is very tough and we have twelve finals ahead of us.” Martín Peláez, president of Real Oviedo, the man chosen by Jesús Martínez, president of Grupo Pachuca, to lead the club acquired by the Mexican emporium in 2022 said it yesterday at the Asturian Press Club of LA NEW SPAIN.
“Today, the priority is the sports city and then the Football University will arrive. We want a sports city in which we can all be together, being united is important for us,” said Martín Peláez, who inaugurated the annual cycle of conferences of the Protective Society of La Balesquida, and was presented by Manuel Lafuente, director of the entity and former president of Real Oviedo.
“The Pachuca Group has a great social vocation and we take that wherever we go. On March 26 we have the Foundation’s gala in Campoamor; that social work is our most important pillar,” stressed the president, who is of Asturian descent ( his paternal grandfather was from Infiesto and his maternal great-grandfather was from Oviedo).
Public yesterday at the Asturiana Press Club. In the foreground, from left to right, Pelayo Fernández-Mijares, Covadonga Díaz, Daniela Peláez, another assistant, Carmen López Villaverde and Isidro Fernández-Rozada. | Irma Collin / MJ Iglesias
“In the short time that you have been in Oviedo you have won over the Oviedo supporters and I dare say that it will be difficult for you to leave; I think you will stay here,” said Lafuente, whose comments managed to move the president, father of three children, among them Daniela Peláez, sports psychologist, who works with the base and women’s teams. “My son is in Madrid and my wife is with our other daughter in Puebla, until he finishes his studies,” explained Peláez, who also remembered the “bolillos” with chorizo that his Mexican grandmother prepared for him and that remind him so much of the ones he distributes. La Balesquida every Field Tuesday. “Now I understand where that tradition comes from.”
Martín Peláez did not hesitate when Jesús Martínez proposed to him to preside over Real Oviedo. “He told me ‘my fat man’ if you want, the presidency of Oviedo is yours. I didn’t have to think about it. I’m like family, but I’m not by blood; it was a great honor that the president proposed that I take charge of this team , with so much history in Spanish soccer and so close to the city,” said the executive, born in Mexico City in 1972, who has held various positions during his professional career such as general director of the National Soccer Hall of Fame. and International or the Mundo Fútbol Interactive Center, during the more than 25 years that he has been working linked to Grupo Pachuca. “No team in the Group has a fan base like that of Oviedo, with 10 percent of the city’s population subscribing, which is said to be early,” said Martín Peláez. Grupo Pachuca is the largest Mexican owner of soccer teams, with clubs in several countries. Among them, in Spain, Real Oviedo; in Chile, Everton de Viña del Mar and in Mexico, Pachuca (dean of Mexican football) and León. Yesterday’s event was attended by directors of La Balesquida, such as Javier Gómez Tuñón Carmen López, Pelayo Fernández-Mijares and Willy Pola, as well as the Youth Councilor, Covadonga Díaz.
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