The former Guardian of FC Barcelona and the Spanish team Víctor Valdés has lasted three weeks as coach of Real Ávila CF after falling eliminated, this last Sunday, in the promotion playoffs to the first federation against CP Cacereño.
A day after the painful elimination at the Prince Felipe stadium, Real Ávila has issued a statement in which it reports that Valdés “will not continue in the club next season by express desire” of the former soccer player, three weeks after his arrival. “
Personal resignation
“The coach has communicated through a letter to the club his desire not to continue at Real Ávila next 2025-26” weighs to have a contract, says the statement issued through social networks.
The club, which has wanted “good luck” and grateful for Víctor Valdés' work for “classifying the team for the playoff,” decided two games to end the season, surprisingly replacing his predecessor in office, Miguel de la Fuente, who ascended to the team last season and in the present practically classified it for the ascent phase.
In these four games, Real Ávila de Valdés managed to win in the first of them 2-1 against Compostela Sports Society, while the last meeting of the regular season lost him in front of the champion, the Pontevedra Club de Fútbol, at the Municipal Stadium of Pason by 3-2.
After qualifying for the promotion playoffs in fifth place during the regular phase, the incarnates had in luck the Cacereño Sports Club, which the abulenses were imposed in the municipal state Adolfo Suárez 2-0 in the first leg.
However, this Sunday they fell into Cáceres for the same result, favorable to the Extremadura, which had the advantage of being able to pass the tie repeating the same score, without reaching penalties.
When the incarnates looked with the tie in hand, in the 97:30 minute arrived the sake that ended the illusions of the players of Real Ávila and the more than half a thousand fans who already celebrated the pass to the next phase.

Víctor Valdés giving a technical talk to the template / @RealAvilaCF
Already at the press conference after the meeting of this Sunday Víctor Valdés sowed the doubts about his continuity in Real Ávila, after four games in abulenses lands he said he had arrived with “illusion” after a long period of “silence”, in which he claimed to have been able to “think things well” and “mature certain errors of the past.”
The doubts that he left this Sunday has been completed a day later with the confirmation of his march, after his ephemeral pass through the bench of Real Ávila Club de Fútbol.