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  • Interview.David Villa: "I'm not going to stay home to see them coming"

"For three or four years I have been working on what David Villa is going to be after retirement ." In an interview in EL MUNDO last December, the top Spanish scorer in the history of the team drew the outline of his subsequent plan to hang up his boots. That day came on January 1, 2020, when he lifted the Japan Emperor's Cup in the Vissel Kobe shirt in his last 90 minutes on a soccer field.

The coronavirus pandemic has further increased the dispatch work that the world champion had to do this year. Queensboro FC , a soccer team that he founded in 2019 and that will play the USL Championship (the second category of American football ) from 2021, is in full launch. It is the only club in the Queens area and is named after the most famous in the city, the one that Villa will have to go through once the pandemic allows him to leave Spain and return to the city of skyscrapers, increasingly freed by the virus.

From there, Villa will control the other four companies that he chairs under the conglomerate ' DV7 Group ', with offices in New York, Valencia and Chicago and created to "create value in the soccer industry through academies, representation agencies and platforms of communication ", according to its website. The former striker's first business leg is his soccer academy, ' DV7 Soccer ', in which a 'Spanish-style' style of play is taught and which has locations in New York, San Diego, Vancouver, Santo Domingo, Bayamon, Asturias, Hong Kong and Japan. Several events postponed by the Covid-19, next year it intends to hold summer camps in more cities in the United States and in Madrid.

Along with the academy is also ' VOS USA ', a sports marketing and representation firm "with the objective of developing soccer in America." The agency already controls several soccer players in MLS, the largest soccer league in North America, including several of his former teammates in New York City, a team that is now investigating accusations about him about alleged sexual harassment of a fellow organization. 'VOS USA' operates hand in hand with ' VII Sports ', another sports marketing, events, communication and consulting agency for footballers, which works in America, Europe and Asia.

Finally, ' Designated Player ', a communication platform that already has 65,000 followers on YouTube. It focuses on "players, music, American football, and fashion" and sells itself as "a unique and innovative signature in the entertainment environment, focused on athletes and sports with pop culture as its anchor." Among its clients are Pepsi and the famous platform ' The Players Tribune ', which gives a voice to athletes around the world, especially those of American sports.

A businessman's life that he had perfectly prepared. " I am not going to sit on the sofa in my house to see them coming, " he told EL MUNDO a few months ago. And that he will develop with his wife, Patricia González, and his children in New York, in Queens, far from Gijón despite Sporting's interest. After having lived in Spain, Australia, Japan and the United States, the Big Apple is the one that has most filled that mix between family life and business. "I wanted to investigate other football, other cultures. It has been nice for my family," he said.

Now 38 , he is now facing an accusation of sexual harassment during his time in New York City. Villa has acknowledged being "aware" of "some indeterminate and ambiguous allegations" and has denied them "outright", while calling them "false".

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