had Tuesday night just before eleven o’clockWhen Breaking news shook the football world. Pelayo Novo dies after being hit by a train in a neighborhood of Oviedo. Quickly the blow ran like gunpowder. Signs of pain and shock quickly followed one another among the supporters of Elche and Franjiverde.. The Asturian football player became one of the heroes of promotion to the First Division in 2013. between Elche of Records. a pA very valuable person who has worn the green striped shirt more than 80 times.. it happened It’s hard to find an explanation for his death at the age of 32 with a whole life ahead of him.despite his paralysis from the waist down after fall in a hotel in Huescainside March 2018when he was a player albacete.
Pelayo Novo came to Elche at the age of 21 in the 2012-2013 season.Q. He left his beloved native Oviedo for the first time. The team from his home country was in Second Division B and wanted more. He succeeded in the first trade for the Elche team. Promotion to the First Division in a dream campaign where the French-greens lead from day one to the last. Despite his youth, the Oviedo football player radiated a lot of quality.. He wasn’t even a typical midfielder because it was difficult for him to defend while performing the functions of a midfielder; nor a striker, because he liked to be in constant contact with the ball. ANDHe was a midfielder, he was a physically strong football player, he had quality and good shots, what one of the coaches called eight-and-a-half.because it wasn’t exactly eight or nine.
It was difficult to be in the top five in that records team with Fran Escribá on the bench. Yet P.Elayo played 26 matches, four of which were starters.. The cheerful and playful character of his youth has earned him the love of his fans.. i still remember Promotional celebration at the Juegos del Mediterráneo stadium in Almería, with an Elche scarf around his head and the flag of Asturias. Or in the first line of aThe convertible that extravagantly roams the streets of the city with Berry Powel and Aarón Ñíguezmaking jokes with his classmates.
The following season he did not enter Escribá’s plans for the First Division and went on loan to Córdoba.repeated the promotion. He turned to Elche and left, again on loan to Lugo. YouAfter the administrative relegation of the Elche club, he returned to the Elche team in the Second Division.. He played 25 games under Rubén Baraja’s coaching and played in 18 games.. Inside 2016-2017 campaign I continue in the Franjiverde squad and was an important player. 27 matches and 18 titles in a painful memory due to relegation to second B.
This was the end of his contractual relationship with Martínez Valero. He tried his luck at Cluj in Romania, but immediately returned to Spain and joined Albacete.. After several secret years, He took back the illusion and the best version in the Manchego team.. Jesús Hernández, press officer of the Albacete teamalso Asturian, I remember this she told me she was so happy. up to He fell in the Abba hotel in Huesca and was hospitalized for 51 days, ending his playing career and being confined to a wheelchair for life..
After a very difficult few months, Pelayo Novo has regained her illusion of living.. He knew he would never keep kicking a ball again. But paved the way for other sports, such as wheelchair tennis, or in his new position as president of the Oviedo Foundation.. He had already overcome Huesca’s misfortune and his life found other ways.
I had the opportunity to talk to him last summer.. called me The problem he had with the tenant of the flat he bought as a property in ElcheDuring his time at the Elche club. The city of palm trees was his second home and he would come here whenever he could.. It did not charge and did not throw. Eventually the eviction took place and we met again to talk and write a report about her new life..
He looked happy. She married her partner Iciar in June., had once overcome the problems of the decline in Huesca. I was carrying with happiness. even andAs an electronic music lover, he was at the temple of Tomorrowland festival in Belgium last summer.WhereIt happened to another big Elche fan like Manu Alenda. they remembered their scene as franciverde and a few pictures were taken.
He did not break his will to live the new situation. However minds are sometimes complicated and think inexplicable things overnight and in tenths of a second.. Cheerful football player, athlete, good wife, friend, because he left a lot behind… he lost his battle with life. RIP Pelayo Novo.