Former soccer player Pelayo Novo dies at the age of 32

The former player of Albacete, Elche and Real Oviedo, in others,

(Oviedo, 1990) has died this Monday at the age of 32 in the Asturian capital, where he had returned to sport after a fall that made him change football for wheelchair tennis and where he was also linked to the Foundation of the Oviedista club.

The former player was part of the board of directors of the Asturian Tennis Federation and had returned to competition thanks to chair tennis after recovering from a fall from a hotel that, while still an Albacete footballer, forced him to go through the Hospital for Paraplegics from Toledo.

"We are heartbroken. We deeply regret the death of Pelayo Novo, captain of our Foundation. Family and friends, we are with you," read the note from Real Oviedo, the team in which he was trained and in which he played in Second B until 21 years old.

It was at that moment,

-in two stages-,

, clubs that have also mourned the loss of the man from Oviedo.

Novo already shocked the world of football five years ago when he was an Albacete player when he suffered a fall from the third floor of the hotel where Albacete Balompié was staying, which caused several fractures before playing a match against Huesca in El Alcoraz.

, although he did not give up sports since he chose to try wheelchair tennis.

"In a short time you managed to win the affection of all the fans who are now mourning your terrible loss," wrote Albacete, seconding the statement also issued by Lugo in which the club from Lugo referred to the pain for the loss of Novo as "a indescribable pain."

Likewise, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has lamented the death of Pelayo Novo through a tweet in which it has written: "We will

. A heartfelt hug to his family and friends."

Since the death of the former soccer player, much loved throughout the Asturian region, became known, there have been innumerable expressions of pain from a city where he also ran a dog grooming salon with his partner.

The void left by the loss of 'Pela', as all those with whom he shared tennis and soccer moments knew him, is just as big as the example that the Oviedo man has set in recent years, in which he became everything

.

"I give tremendous value to details, because

," Pelayo himself commented just a year ago, when He received the Herrerita Award that Oviedism grants to his figures.

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