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  • EDU CHOVA

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Updated Tuesday, 25May2021-22: 40

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11 days ago marked the 24th anniversary of the arrival of

Fernando Roig

(Poble Nou, 1947) to

Villarreal

, at that time a modest

Second Division

club

that the Valencian businessman placed in another dimension.

Upon his arrival, after taking the baton from

Pascual Font de Mora

, Roig predicted that the team would be playing in the

First Division

in just a couple of seasons, but he was wrong.

He did it in just one, inaugurating a stage of almost continuous growth that reaches its zenith tonight.

In the stadium of

G

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