The fall of Santi Mina: the caravan trip that sentenced the Celta player

• Sentence Celta footballer Santi Mina, sentenced to four years in prison for sexual abuse

On June 18, 2017,

was able to sign the end of his career as an elite soccer player.

striker to four years in prison

for having committed a crime of sexual abuse of a girl he met during his vacation in Mojácar when he was still wearing the

shirt .

In addition, he will have to comply with a restraining order for 12 years and pay

.

Celta has already announced that it is opening disciplinary proceedings against him and removing him from the first team due to the events that "notoriously undermined the club's image and undermined his values".

Mina, who in the summer of 2019 returned to the Galician club where he trained, will have the possibility of appealing the sentence but, despite having avoided the crime of aggression for which the Prosecutor's Office asked him for eight years, it will be difficult for him not to put one foot in prison

The same will not happen to his friend, Ibiza player

, who has been acquitted.

Both Galician soccer players went together in a caravan to the coast of Almería in June 2017, once the season was over, and in a nightclub they met two girls.

One of them agreed to go with Goldar to spend the night with him, but at one point, Santi Mina appeared naked to, according to the victim, have sex with her in the presence of the Valencia striker's friend, something she refused. .

Despite the fact that Mina's defense has insisted that they were consensual relationships,

.

Return to Vigo

The young woman's complaint led to the arrests of the two soccer players, who were released without bail.

Both Mina and Goldar continued with their careers.

In the case of the Celta striker, he changed his mind in the summer of 2019, after having his best season in the First Division as a Valencian player and becoming Copa del Rey champion.

The Galician team paid 15 million, five more than the price for which it was sold four years earlier, in an operation in which it was transferred to

.

Despite the prison sentence he faced, Mina has become a key player for Celta, especially since

arrived on the bench in November 2020 , with whom he equaled the 12 goals he achieved last season under the orders of

in Mestalla.

In both clubs he has forged his career, which reaches 313 games in the First Division and 84 goals.

Mina debuted on February 16, 2013 and the chronicles show that who today is her captain,

, refused to greet the 17-year-old youth when he replaced him.

It was a warning that, despite being the jewel of the Celtiña quarry, he was not going to have it easy.

He had grown up with

, even overcoming his physical weaknesses, his parents' obligation to finish high school before, at the age of 19 and led by

, he arrived at a Valencia recently bought by his friend

and then in Champions.

Difficult adaptation

That boy had a hard time adjusting.

did not trust him.

With

he did not even set foot on the field.

Those were tough times under the orders of a rosary of coaches, many rookies, who dragged the club to the bottom of the table.

And he was seen on the transfer list.

It was then that he decided to travel to Mojácar in a caravan.

That accusation, today condemned, did not affect his sports performance.

He clung to the motto that he has tattooed on one of the infinite indentations of ink that he wears on his skin: "Don't fight to live, he lives to fight."

Hardly anyone trusted his explosion would come except those who ended up becoming his family: goalkeeper

and

.

His

with the goalkeeper went beyond the locker room, they were like brothers.

The Italian became a mirror of perseverance and Mina was infected by his charisma.

The "calvito" also had that thug and provocative point that the Galician liked to feed.

Marcelino polished him on the field.

He improved his technique, made him lose six kilos and make him give up "the vice of eating."

Another aspect was his confidence, which led him not to be scared by the competition.

Already at Celta, he did not find a place with either

or

, gray times from which Coudet rescued him, who never wanted to separate him from the team despite the fact that he was going to sit on the bench.

"Until justice says otherwise, Santi Mina is innocent," said the Argentine coach.

Justice has already spoken.

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