The former Valencia goalkeeper, Santiago Cañizares , has met with the refusal of the president of Valencia CF, Anil Murthy , to have the club collaborate on a project to be carried out in Movistar to raise funds for childhood cancer research . According to the former Valencian captain, the reason is his critical stance with the management that Peter Lim is doing.

In February 2019, Cañizares went to Mateu Alemany to propose the collaboration of Valencia in a project promoted by the Telefónica Foundation and the Vicky Dream Foundation, which raises funds and from which former Valencian goal and his wife Maite, who lost to his son Santi because of this disease, they are ambassadors.

The proposal was to make a raffle among all those who made a donation to the Foundation to spend a day center of a first level football club. "It was about two or three people living the experience of visiting the facilities, going to a game or meeting a soccer player who lent himself to collaborate," Cañizares explained in El Partidazo de la Cope.

According to the story, the initiative was going to be recorded before the end of last season, with the total collaboration of the club, but "we didn't want to bother because Valencia was immersed in the fight for very important things." It was agreed to leave it for later and, when he wanted to resume in early September, everything changed.

"We were going to record the promo and we received the news that he had stopped. Alemany told me that his role in the club had changed, that he would explain it to the president, ... but the final plea was unsuccessful," said the former footballer, who will carry out the initiative with Real Madrid through its Foundation.

"What hurts me the most is the shame that Valencia fans will have to go through," said Cañizares.

The goalkeeper in his work as a commentator has been very critical of Meriton's management. He censored the decision to dismiss Marcelino publicly - "He has fulfilled all the objectives for which he was hired. Leaving Marcelino is a tremendous outrage," he said - and did not understand why Celades agreed to be his substitute: "When you need to sign a contract and you get the opportunity to train Valencia, because one loses all concept of honor and ethics. Celades I think he does not know where he has gotten, with how he is in the locker room. His role from the beginning will be very complicated " .

Valencia denies that it discarded the project

Valencia has published an official statement in which it regrets the public statements of Cañizares and pointing out that this project "had by no means been ruled out by the club for the future." "The entity trusts that in a responsible way it maintains its solidarity predisposition, with projects promoted by the Valencia CF Foundation, with which the club turns throughout the year into numerous solidarity causes."

The club explains that this project received from the outset the full support of Valencia CF, "which directly and indirectly, through its mobilization of its sponsors, has been gathering the necessary financial resources so that it could be implemented a project that would raise funds for the agreed charitable purpose, research against childhood cancer in a Valencian reference hospital. "

What they asked for in September was "to reassess the planned dates, with the internal idea of ​​valuing other more suitable ones to undertake it". "In no case definitely discarding a project in which Valencia CF had worked for months," they said.

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