{"id":229402,"date":"2022-11-02T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T08:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/memories-of-the-jose-manuel-llaneza-training-ground\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T10:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T09:32:30","slug":"memories-of-the-jose-manuel-llaneza-training-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/en\/memories-of-the-jose-manuel-llaneza-training-ground\/","title":{"rendered":"Memories of the Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza Training Ground"},"content":{"protected":false,"blocks":[{"type":"image","url":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg","alt":"||||","width":1170,"height":658,"srcset":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-32x18.jpg 32w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w","sizes":"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The former vice-president has many memorable moments with the youth players at the Miralcamp"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The work of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza (1948-2022) in the Yellows Academy is well known to Villarreal CF fans and throughout the football world. The fact is that the former vice-president, who was linked to Villarreal for almost 30 years, was not only outstanding on a sporting level, but also on a personal level."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After his death, it has been possible to see his personality thanks to the many messages of affection received from people all over the world of football, including those of appreciation from youth players such as Pau Torres, Baena, Yeremy, Morlanes, Fer Ni\u00f1o and Arana, among many others."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As Ernesto Almod\u00f3var, one of the coordinators of the 8-a-side Yellow teams, explains: \u201cHe knew all the kids, but not only on a footballing level, but also on a personal level.\u201d Llaneza used to find out about the new players he didn\u2019t know in the Yellows Academy, if he went to watch a match. \u201cHe would ask what club they came from, where they were from, what their parents did for a living\u2026 And if their parents were in the stands, he would introduce himself and chat with them,\u201d added Almod\u00f3var."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Meanwhile, Villarreal FC\u2019s youth football director, Pablo Ca\u00f1ada, confesses that: \u201cHe taught us all to be demanding of ourselves, not to make excuses. If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. You\u2019re coming to watch the match with the team\u2019s plane\u2019.\u2019"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Main supporter of the Villarreal Women\u2019s team"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Llaneza was one of the first people at the top of the club who believed in the growth of Villarreal Women. This is how one of the coordinators, Patri Traver, explains it: \u201cHe was one of the people who initiated the improvement in the structure of the Women\u2019s team. He gave us all the tools to grow and in the end it led to our promotion to the First Division. We will always be grateful to him because he is a person who, when he set his mind to something, achieved it. He was the architect of this change, which is easier to support now, but he was the one who believed from the beginning.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Traver also mentions the vice-president\u2019s demanding support: \u201cHe always helped you, but at the same time he demanded from you. Whenever he saw us, he always knew how we were doing.\u201d In addition, the Villarreal Women\u2019s coordinator recalls a curious anecdote with Llaneza: \u201cWhen we were promoted, a celebration was organised at La Cer\u00e1mica and a small snack was set up on the pitch. When he arrived, he congratulated us on our promotion, but he also gave us a bit of a telling off because the week before we asked to play at the Mini Estadi as a reward for our promotion and, relaxed after achieving our objective, we lost 1-4. Thanks to his personality, the club has grown as much as it has.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Pioneer of the Endavant project"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As well as being a genius on a sporting level, Llaneza was aware that the structure of a club meant more than that and he was always willing to support his community through social responsibility."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Villarreal gave aid to sports in the province of Castell\u00f3n, but it was not framed in any project until Endavant was born, with Endavant Esports as the first step. Paloma Mas\u00f3, current head of the Endavant project, assures that: \u201cHaving his involvement was a guarantee of success because he got involved in every project. We travelled around the province strengthening ties with the representatives of each locality. Just knowing that Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza was coming, every town council was delighted to open their doors and listen to our project,\u201d recalls Mas\u00f3."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The vice-president knew that transmitting the values of the club was essential for the training of the youth players and did not hesitate to support another branch of the project: \u201cWhen the Department of Methodology and Psychology presented us with the Endavant Igualtat project, he had no hesitation in supporting it and wanted to set it up as soon as possible because for him it was the ideal way to train not only players, but as people in our youth team and he wanted to know first-hand how the teams related to each centre,\u201d says Mas\u00f3."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We could say Jos\u00e9 Manuel was the pioneer of the Endavant project. Villarreal and its Foundation continue to do this work today thanks to the fact that the vice-president of the club himself believed in this project and followed it from the beginning to the end of each season,\u201d she added."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Your legacy is everlasting, Jos\u00e9 Manuel!"}],"structured":{"summary":{"text":"The former vice-president has many memorable moments with the youth players at the Miralcamp The work of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza (1948-2022) in the Yellows Academy is well known to Villarreal CF fans and throughout the football world. The fact is that the former vice-president, who was linked to Villarreal for almost 30 years, was not only outstanding on a sporting level, but also on a personal level. After his death, it has been possible to see his personality thanks to the many messages of affection received from people all over the world of football, including those of appreciation from youth players such as Pau Torres, Baena, Yeremy, Morlanes, Fer Ni\u00f1o and Arana, among many others. As Ernesto Almod\u00f3var, one of the coordinators of the 8-a-side Yellow teams, explains: \u201cHe knew all the kids, but not only on a footballing level, but also on a personal level.\u201d Llaneza used to find out about the new players he didn\u2019t know in the Yellows Academy, if he went to watch a match. \u201cHe would ask what club they came from, where they were from, what their parents did for a living\u2026 And if their parents were in the stands, he would introduce himself and chat with them,\u201d added Almod\u00f3var. Meanwhile, Villarreal FC\u2019s youth football director, Pablo Ca\u00f1ada, confesses that: \u201cHe taught us all to be demanding of ourselves, not to make excuses. If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. You\u2019re coming to watch the match with the team\u2019s plane\u2019.\u2019 Main supporter of the Villarreal Women\u2019s team Llaneza was one of the first people at the top of the club who believed in the growth of Villarreal Women. This is how one of the coordinators, Patri Traver, explains it: \u201cHe was one of the people who initiated the improvement in the structure of the Women\u2019s team. He gave us all the tools to grow and in the end it led to our promotion to the First Division. We will always be grateful to him because he is a person who, when he set his mind to something, achieved it. He was the architect of this change, which is easier to support now, but he was the one who believed from the beginning.\u201d Traver also mentions the vice-president\u2019s demanding support: \u201cHe always helped you, but at the same time he demanded from you. Whenever he saw us, he always knew how we were doing.\u201d In addition, the Villarreal Women\u2019s coordinator recalls a curious anecdote with Llaneza: \u201cWhen we were promoted, a celebration was organised at La Cer\u00e1mica and a small snack was set up on the pitch. When he arrived, he congratulated us on our promotion, but he also gave us a bit of a telling off because the week before we asked to play at the Mini Estadi as a reward for our promotion and, relaxed after achieving our objective, we lost 1-4. Thanks to his personality, the club has grown as much as it has.\u201d Pioneer of the Endavant project As well as being a genius on a sporting level, Llaneza was aware that the structure of a club meant more than that and he was always willing to support his community through social responsibility. Villarreal gave aid to sports in the province of Castell\u00f3n, but it was not framed in any project until Endavant was born, with Endavant Esports as the first step. Paloma Mas\u00f3, current head of the Endavant project, assures that: \u201cHaving his involvement was a guarantee of success because he got involved in every project. We travelled around the province strengthening ties with the representatives of each locality. Just knowing that Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza was coming, every town council was delighted to open their doors and listen to our project,\u201d recalls Mas\u00f3. The vice-president knew that transmitting the values of the club was essential for the training of the youth players and did not hesitate to support another branch of the project: \u201cWhen the Department of Methodology and Psychology presented us with the Endavant Igualtat project, he had no hesitation in supporting it and wanted to set it up as soon as possible because for him it was the ideal way to train not only players, but as people in our youth team and he wanted to know first-hand how the teams related to each centre,\u201d says Mas\u00f3. We could say Jos\u00e9 Manuel was the pioneer of the Endavant project. Villarreal and its Foundation continue to do this work today thanks to the fact that the vice-president of the club himself believed in this project and followed it from the beginning to the end of each season,\u201d she added. Your legacy is everlasting, Jos\u00e9 Manuel!","headings":[],"buttons":[],"images":[{"type":"image","url":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg","alt":"||||","width":1170,"height":658,"srcset":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-32x18.jpg 32w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w","sizes":"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px"}],"counts":{"blocks":16,"headings":0,"texts":15,"buttons":0,"images":1}},"sections":[{"id":"section-1","title":"","text":"The former vice-president has many memorable moments with the youth players at the Miralcamp The work of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza (1948-2022) in the Yellows Academy is well known to Villarreal CF fans and throughout the football world. The fact is that the former vice-president, who was linked to Villarreal for almost 30 years, was not only outstanding on a sporting level, but also on a personal level. After his death, it has been possible to see his personality thanks to the many messages of affection received from people all over the world of football, including those of appreciation from youth players such as Pau Torres, Baena, Yeremy, Morlanes, Fer Ni\u00f1o and Arana, among many others. As Ernesto Almod\u00f3var, one of the coordinators of the 8-a-side Yellow teams, explains: \u201cHe knew all the kids, but not only on a footballing level, but also on a personal level.\u201d Llaneza used to find out about the new players he didn\u2019t know in the Yellows Academy, if he went to watch a match. \u201cHe would ask what club they came from, where they were from, what their parents did for a living\u2026 And if their parents were in the stands, he would introduce himself and chat with them,\u201d added Almod\u00f3var. Meanwhile, Villarreal FC\u2019s youth football director, Pablo Ca\u00f1ada, confesses that: \u201cHe taught us all to be demanding of ourselves, not to make excuses. If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. You\u2019re coming to watch the match with the team\u2019s plane\u2019.\u2019 Main supporter of the Villarreal Women\u2019s team Llaneza was one of the first people at the top of the club who believed in the growth of Villarreal Women. This is how one of the coordinators, Patri Traver, explains it: \u201cHe was one of the people who initiated the improvement in the structure of the Women\u2019s team. He gave us all the tools to grow and in the end it led to our promotion to the First Division. We will always be grateful to him because he is a person who, when he set his mind to something, achieved it. He was the architect of this change, which is easier to support now, but he was the one who believed from the beginning.\u201d Traver also mentions the vice-president\u2019s demanding support: \u201cHe always helped you, but at the same time he demanded from you. Whenever he saw us, he always knew how we were doing.\u201d In addition, the Villarreal Women\u2019s coordinator recalls a curious anecdote with Llaneza: \u201cWhen we were promoted, a celebration was organised at La Cer\u00e1mica and a small snack was set up on the pitch. When he arrived, he congratulated us on our promotion, but he also gave us a bit of a telling off because the week before we asked to play at the Mini Estadi as a reward for our promotion and, relaxed after achieving our objective, we lost 1-4. Thanks to his personality, the club has grown as much as it has.\u201d Pioneer of the Endavant project As well as being a genius on a sporting level, Llaneza was aware that the structure of a club meant more than that and he was always willing to support his community through social responsibility. Villarreal gave aid to sports in the province of Castell\u00f3n, but it was not framed in any project until Endavant was born, with Endavant Esports as the first step. Paloma Mas\u00f3, current head of the Endavant project, assures that: \u201cHaving his involvement was a guarantee of success because he got involved in every project. We travelled around the province strengthening ties with the representatives of each locality. Just knowing that Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza was coming, every town council was delighted to open their doors and listen to our project,\u201d recalls Mas\u00f3. The vice-president knew that transmitting the values of the club was essential for the training of the youth players and did not hesitate to support another branch of the project: \u201cWhen the Department of Methodology and Psychology presented us with the Endavant Igualtat project, he had no hesitation in supporting it and wanted to set it up as soon as possible because for him it was the ideal way to train not only players, but as people in our youth team and he wanted to know first-hand how the teams related to each centre,\u201d says Mas\u00f3. We could say Jos\u00e9 Manuel was the pioneer of the Endavant project. Villarreal and its Foundation continue to do this work today thanks to the fact that the vice-president of the club himself believed in this project and followed it from the beginning to the end of each season,\u201d she added. Your legacy is everlasting, Jos\u00e9 Manuel!","headings":[],"texts":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The former vice-president has many memorable moments with the youth players at the Miralcamp"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The work of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza (1948-2022) in the Yellows Academy is well known to Villarreal CF fans and throughout the football world. The fact is that the former vice-president, who was linked to Villarreal for almost 30 years, was not only outstanding on a sporting level, but also on a personal level."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After his death, it has been possible to see his personality thanks to the many messages of affection received from people all over the world of football, including those of appreciation from youth players such as Pau Torres, Baena, Yeremy, Morlanes, Fer Ni\u00f1o and Arana, among many others."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As Ernesto Almod\u00f3var, one of the coordinators of the 8-a-side Yellow teams, explains: \u201cHe knew all the kids, but not only on a footballing level, but also on a personal level.\u201d Llaneza used to find out about the new players he didn\u2019t know in the Yellows Academy, if he went to watch a match. \u201cHe would ask what club they came from, where they were from, what their parents did for a living\u2026 And if their parents were in the stands, he would introduce himself and chat with them,\u201d added Almod\u00f3var."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Meanwhile, Villarreal FC\u2019s youth football director, Pablo Ca\u00f1ada, confesses that: \u201cHe taught us all to be demanding of ourselves, not to make excuses. If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. You\u2019re coming to watch the match with the team\u2019s plane\u2019.\u2019"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Main supporter of the Villarreal Women\u2019s team"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Llaneza was one of the first people at the top of the club who believed in the growth of Villarreal Women. This is how one of the coordinators, Patri Traver, explains it: \u201cHe was one of the people who initiated the improvement in the structure of the Women\u2019s team. He gave us all the tools to grow and in the end it led to our promotion to the First Division. We will always be grateful to him because he is a person who, when he set his mind to something, achieved it. He was the architect of this change, which is easier to support now, but he was the one who believed from the beginning.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Traver also mentions the vice-president\u2019s demanding support: \u201cHe always helped you, but at the same time he demanded from you. Whenever he saw us, he always knew how we were doing.\u201d In addition, the Villarreal Women\u2019s coordinator recalls a curious anecdote with Llaneza: \u201cWhen we were promoted, a celebration was organised at La Cer\u00e1mica and a small snack was set up on the pitch. When he arrived, he congratulated us on our promotion, but he also gave us a bit of a telling off because the week before we asked to play at the Mini Estadi as a reward for our promotion and, relaxed after achieving our objective, we lost 1-4. Thanks to his personality, the club has grown as much as it has.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Pioneer of the Endavant project"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As well as being a genius on a sporting level, Llaneza was aware that the structure of a club meant more than that and he was always willing to support his community through social responsibility."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Villarreal gave aid to sports in the province of Castell\u00f3n, but it was not framed in any project until Endavant was born, with Endavant Esports as the first step. Paloma Mas\u00f3, current head of the Endavant project, assures that: \u201cHaving his involvement was a guarantee of success because he got involved in every project. We travelled around the province strengthening ties with the representatives of each locality. Just knowing that Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza was coming, every town council was delighted to open their doors and listen to our project,\u201d recalls Mas\u00f3."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The vice-president knew that transmitting the values of the club was essential for the training of the youth players and did not hesitate to support another branch of the project: \u201cWhen the Department of Methodology and Psychology presented us with the Endavant Igualtat project, he had no hesitation in supporting it and wanted to set it up as soon as possible because for him it was the ideal way to train not only players, but as people in our youth team and he wanted to know first-hand how the teams related to each centre,\u201d says Mas\u00f3."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We could say Jos\u00e9 Manuel was the pioneer of the Endavant project. Villarreal and its Foundation continue to do this work today thanks to the fact that the vice-president of the club himself believed in this project and followed it from the beginning to the end of each season,\u201d she added."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Your legacy is everlasting, Jos\u00e9 Manuel!"}],"buttons":[],"images":[{"type":"image","url":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg","alt":"||||","width":1170,"height":658,"srcset":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-32x18.jpg 32w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w","sizes":"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px"}],"widgets":[],"blocks":[{"type":"image","url":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg","alt":"||||","width":1170,"height":658,"srcset":"https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-32x18.jpg 32w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/villarrealcf.es\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/92b86a2615f9edf05cd1b0ef1e07ce24.jpg 1920w","sizes":"auto, (max-width: 1170px) 100vw, 1170px"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The former vice-president has many memorable moments with the youth players at the Miralcamp"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The work of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza (1948-2022) in the Yellows Academy is well known to Villarreal CF fans and throughout the football world. The fact is that the former vice-president, who was linked to Villarreal for almost 30 years, was not only outstanding on a sporting level, but also on a personal level."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After his death, it has been possible to see his personality thanks to the many messages of affection received from people all over the world of football, including those of appreciation from youth players such as Pau Torres, Baena, Yeremy, Morlanes, Fer Ni\u00f1o and Arana, among many others."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As Ernesto Almod\u00f3var, one of the coordinators of the 8-a-side Yellow teams, explains: \u201cHe knew all the kids, but not only on a footballing level, but also on a personal level.\u201d Llaneza used to find out about the new players he didn\u2019t know in the Yellows Academy, if he went to watch a match. \u201cHe would ask what club they came from, where they were from, what their parents did for a living\u2026 And if their parents were in the stands, he would introduce himself and chat with them,\u201d added Almod\u00f3var."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Meanwhile, Villarreal FC\u2019s youth football director, Pablo Ca\u00f1ada, confesses that: \u201cHe taught us all to be demanding of ourselves, not to make excuses. If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. You\u2019re coming to watch the match with the team\u2019s plane\u2019.\u2019"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Main supporter of the Villarreal Women\u2019s team"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Llaneza was one of the first people at the top of the club who believed in the growth of Villarreal Women. This is how one of the coordinators, Patri Traver, explains it: \u201cHe was one of the people who initiated the improvement in the structure of the Women\u2019s team. He gave us all the tools to grow and in the end it led to our promotion to the First Division. We will always be grateful to him because he is a person who, when he set his mind to something, achieved it. He was the architect of this change, which is easier to support now, but he was the one who believed from the beginning.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Traver also mentions the vice-president\u2019s demanding support: \u201cHe always helped you, but at the same time he demanded from you. Whenever he saw us, he always knew how we were doing.\u201d In addition, the Villarreal Women\u2019s coordinator recalls a curious anecdote with Llaneza: \u201cWhen we were promoted, a celebration was organised at La Cer\u00e1mica and a small snack was set up on the pitch. When he arrived, he congratulated us on our promotion, but he also gave us a bit of a telling off because the week before we asked to play at the Mini Estadi as a reward for our promotion and, relaxed after achieving our objective, we lost 1-4. Thanks to his personality, the club has grown as much as it has.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Pioneer of the Endavant project"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As well as being a genius on a sporting level, Llaneza was aware that the structure of a club meant more than that and he was always willing to support his community through social responsibility."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Villarreal gave aid to sports in the province of Castell\u00f3n, but it was not framed in any project until Endavant was born, with Endavant Esports as the first step. Paloma Mas\u00f3, current head of the Endavant project, assures that: \u201cHaving his involvement was a guarantee of success because he got involved in every project. We travelled around the province strengthening ties with the representatives of each locality. Just knowing that Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza was coming, every town council was delighted to open their doors and listen to our project,\u201d recalls Mas\u00f3."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The vice-president knew that transmitting the values of the club was essential for the training of the youth players and did not hesitate to support another branch of the project: \u201cWhen the Department of Methodology and Psychology presented us with the Endavant Igualtat project, he had no hesitation in supporting it and wanted to set it up as soon as possible because for him it was the ideal way to train not only players, but as people in our youth team and he wanted to know first-hand how the teams related to each centre,\u201d says Mas\u00f3."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We could say Jos\u00e9 Manuel was the pioneer of the Endavant project. Villarreal and its Foundation continue to do this work today thanks to the fact that the vice-president of the club himself believed in this project and followed it from the beginning to the end of each season,\u201d she added."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Your legacy is everlasting, Jos\u00e9 Manuel!"}]}],"hero":{"id":"section-1","title":"","text":"The former vice-president has many memorable moments with the youth players at the Miralcamp The work of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza (1948-2022) in the Yellows Academy is well known to Villarreal CF fans and throughout the football world. The fact is that the former vice-president, who was linked to Villarreal for almost 30 years, was not only outstanding on a sporting level, but also on a personal level. After his death, it has been possible to see his personality thanks to the many messages of affection received from people all over the world of football, including those of appreciation from youth players such as Pau Torres, Baena, Yeremy, Morlanes, Fer Ni\u00f1o and Arana, among many others. As Ernesto Almod\u00f3var, one of the coordinators of the 8-a-side Yellow teams, explains: \u201cHe knew all the kids, but not only on a footballing level, but also on a personal level.\u201d Llaneza used to find out about the new players he didn\u2019t know in the Yellows Academy, if he went to watch a match. \u201cHe would ask what club they came from, where they were from, what their parents did for a living\u2026 And if their parents were in the stands, he would introduce himself and chat with them,\u201d added Almod\u00f3var. Meanwhile, Villarreal FC\u2019s youth football director, Pablo Ca\u00f1ada, confesses that: \u201cHe taught us all to be demanding of ourselves, not to make excuses. If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. You\u2019re coming to watch the match with the team\u2019s plane\u2019.\u2019 Main supporter of the Villarreal Women\u2019s team Llaneza was one of the first people at the top of the club who believed in the growth of Villarreal Women. This is how one of the coordinators, Patri Traver, explains it: \u201cHe was one of the people who initiated the improvement in the structure of the Women\u2019s team. He gave us all the tools to grow and in the end it led to our promotion to the First Division. We will always be grateful to him because he is a person who, when he set his mind to something, achieved it. He was the architect of this change, which is easier to support now, but he was the one who believed from the beginning.\u201d Traver also mentions the vice-president\u2019s demanding support: \u201cHe always helped you, but at the same time he demanded from you. Whenever he saw us, he always knew how we were doing.\u201d In addition, the Villarreal Women\u2019s coordinator recalls a curious anecdote with Llaneza: \u201cWhen we were promoted, a celebration was organised at La Cer\u00e1mica and a small snack was set up on the pitch. When he arrived, he congratulated us on our promotion, but he also gave us a bit of a telling off because the week before we asked to play at the Mini Estadi as a reward for our promotion and, relaxed after achieving our objective, we lost 1-4. Thanks to his personality, the club has grown as much as it has.\u201d Pioneer of the Endavant project As well as being a genius on a sporting level, Llaneza was aware that the structure of a club meant more than that and he was always willing to support his community through social responsibility. Villarreal gave aid to sports in the province of Castell\u00f3n, but it was not framed in any project until Endavant was born, with Endavant Esports as the first step. Paloma Mas\u00f3, current head of the Endavant project, assures that: \u201cHaving his involvement was a guarantee of success because he got involved in every project. We travelled around the province strengthening ties with the representatives of each locality. Just knowing that Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza was coming, every town council was delighted to open their doors and listen to our project,\u201d recalls Mas\u00f3. The vice-president knew that transmitting the values of the club was essential for the training of the youth players and did not hesitate to support another branch of the project: \u201cWhen the Department of Methodology and Psychology presented us with the Endavant Igualtat project, he had no hesitation in supporting it and wanted to set it up as soon as possible because for him it was the ideal way to train not only players, but as people in our youth team and he wanted to know first-hand how the teams related to each centre,\u201d says Mas\u00f3. We could say Jos\u00e9 Manuel was the pioneer of the Endavant project. Villarreal and its Foundation continue to do this work today thanks to the fact that the vice-president of the club himself believed in this project and followed it from the beginning to the end of each season,\u201d she added. Your legacy is everlasting, Jos\u00e9 Manuel!","headings":[],"texts":[{"type":"paragraph","text":"The former vice-president has many memorable moments with the youth players at the Miralcamp"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The work of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza (1948-2022) in the Yellows Academy is well known to Villarreal CF fans and throughout the football world. 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If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. 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The fact is that the former vice-president, who was linked to Villarreal for almost 30 years, was not only outstanding on a sporting level, but also on a personal level."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"After his death, it has been possible to see his personality thanks to the many messages of affection received from people all over the world of football, including those of appreciation from youth players such as Pau Torres, Baena, Yeremy, Morlanes, Fer Ni\u00f1o and Arana, among many others."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As Ernesto Almod\u00f3var, one of the coordinators of the 8-a-side Yellow teams, explains: \u201cHe knew all the kids, but not only on a footballing level, but also on a personal level.\u201d Llaneza used to find out about the new players he didn\u2019t know in the Yellows Academy, if he went to watch a match. \u201cHe would ask what club they came from, where they were from, what their parents did for a living\u2026 And if their parents were in the stands, he would introduce himself and chat with them,\u201d added Almod\u00f3var."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Meanwhile, Villarreal FC\u2019s youth football director, Pablo Ca\u00f1ada, confesses that: \u201cHe taught us all to be demanding of ourselves, not to make excuses. If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. You\u2019re coming to watch the match with the team\u2019s plane\u2019.\u2019"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Main supporter of the Villarreal Women\u2019s team"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Llaneza was one of the first people at the top of the club who believed in the growth of Villarreal Women. This is how one of the coordinators, Patri Traver, explains it: \u201cHe was one of the people who initiated the improvement in the structure of the Women\u2019s team. He gave us all the tools to grow and in the end it led to our promotion to the First Division. We will always be grateful to him because he is a person who, when he set his mind to something, achieved it. He was the architect of this change, which is easier to support now, but he was the one who believed from the beginning.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Traver also mentions the vice-president\u2019s demanding support: \u201cHe always helped you, but at the same time he demanded from you. Whenever he saw us, he always knew how we were doing.\u201d In addition, the Villarreal Women\u2019s coordinator recalls a curious anecdote with Llaneza: \u201cWhen we were promoted, a celebration was organised at La Cer\u00e1mica and a small snack was set up on the pitch. When he arrived, he congratulated us on our promotion, but he also gave us a bit of a telling off because the week before we asked to play at the Mini Estadi as a reward for our promotion and, relaxed after achieving our objective, we lost 1-4. Thanks to his personality, the club has grown as much as it has.\u201d"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Pioneer of the Endavant project"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"As well as being a genius on a sporting level, Llaneza was aware that the structure of a club meant more than that and he was always willing to support his community through social responsibility."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Villarreal gave aid to sports in the province of Castell\u00f3n, but it was not framed in any project until Endavant was born, with Endavant Esports as the first step. Paloma Mas\u00f3, current head of the Endavant project, assures that: \u201cHaving his involvement was a guarantee of success because he got involved in every project. We travelled around the province strengthening ties with the representatives of each locality. Just knowing that Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza was coming, every town council was delighted to open their doors and listen to our project,\u201d recalls Mas\u00f3."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The vice-president knew that transmitting the values of the club was essential for the training of the youth players and did not hesitate to support another branch of the project: \u201cWhen the Department of Methodology and Psychology presented us with the Endavant Igualtat project, he had no hesitation in supporting it and wanted to set it up as soon as possible because for him it was the ideal way to train not only players, but as people in our youth team and he wanted to know first-hand how the teams related to each centre,\u201d says Mas\u00f3."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"We could say Jos\u00e9 Manuel was the pioneer of the Endavant project. Villarreal and its Foundation continue to do this work today thanks to the fact that the vice-president of the club himself believed in this project and followed it from the beginning to the end of each season,\u201d she added."},{"type":"paragraph","text":"Your legacy is everlasting, Jos\u00e9 Manuel!"}]}},"sections":[{"id":"section-1","title":"","text":"The former vice-president has many memorable moments with the youth players at the Miralcamp The work of Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza (1948-2022) in the Yellows Academy is well known to Villarreal CF fans and throughout the football world. The fact is that the former vice-president, who was linked to Villarreal for almost 30 years, was not only outstanding on a sporting level, but also on a personal level. After his death, it has been possible to see his personality thanks to the many messages of affection received from people all over the world of football, including those of appreciation from youth players such as Pau Torres, Baena, Yeremy, Morlanes, Fer Ni\u00f1o and Arana, among many others. As Ernesto Almod\u00f3var, one of the coordinators of the 8-a-side Yellow teams, explains: \u201cHe knew all the kids, but not only on a footballing level, but also on a personal level.\u201d Llaneza used to find out about the new players he didn\u2019t know in the Yellows Academy, if he went to watch a match. \u201cHe would ask what club they came from, where they were from, what their parents did for a living\u2026 And if their parents were in the stands, he would introduce himself and chat with them,\u201d added Almod\u00f3var. Meanwhile, Villarreal FC\u2019s youth football director, Pablo Ca\u00f1ada, confesses that: \u201cHe taught us all to be demanding of ourselves, not to make excuses. If a match was windy or the pitch was bad, it was bad for both teams.\u201d Furthermore, Ca\u00f1ada stresses that Llaneza always knew what he was talking about \u201cbecause he didn\u2019t need anyone to tell him what was happening at the Training Ground, as he experienced it first hand.\u201d One of the best anecdotes that the youth football director recalls about the figure of Jos\u00e9 Manuel involves the Manu Portela, a native of Galicia, who is now in the U16s: \u201cAt that time, Manu had just arrived at the residence, where he was the youngest among his fellow teammates. One day, Llaneza asked him: \u2018You are the Galician, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 The boy answered yes and Jos\u00e9 Manuel told him: \u2018In two weeks we play in Vigo. You\u2019re coming to watch the match with the team\u2019s plane\u2019.\u2019 Main supporter of the Villarreal Women\u2019s team Llaneza was one of the first people at the top of the club who believed in the growth of Villarreal Women. This is how one of the coordinators, Patri Traver, explains it: \u201cHe was one of the people who initiated the improvement in the structure of the Women\u2019s team. He gave us all the tools to grow and in the end it led to our promotion to the First Division. We will always be grateful to him because he is a person who, when he set his mind to something, achieved it. He was the architect of this change, which is easier to support now, but he was the one who believed from the beginning.\u201d Traver also mentions the vice-president\u2019s demanding support: \u201cHe always helped you, but at the same time he demanded from you. Whenever he saw us, he always knew how we were doing.\u201d In addition, the Villarreal Women\u2019s coordinator recalls a curious anecdote with Llaneza: \u201cWhen we were promoted, a celebration was organised at La Cer\u00e1mica and a small snack was set up on the pitch. When he arrived, he congratulated us on our promotion, but he also gave us a bit of a telling off because the week before we asked to play at the Mini Estadi as a reward for our promotion and, relaxed after achieving our objective, we lost 1-4. Thanks to his personality, the club has grown as much as it has.\u201d Pioneer of the Endavant project As well as being a genius on a sporting level, Llaneza was aware that the structure of a club meant more than that and he was always willing to support his community through social responsibility. Villarreal gave aid to sports in the province of Castell\u00f3n, but it was not framed in any project until Endavant was born, with Endavant Esports as the first step. Paloma Mas\u00f3, current head of the Endavant project, assures that: \u201cHaving his involvement was a guarantee of success because he got involved in every project. We travelled around the province strengthening ties with the representatives of each locality. Just knowing that Jos\u00e9 Manuel Llaneza was coming, every town council was delighted to open their doors and listen to our project,\u201d recalls Mas\u00f3. The vice-president knew that transmitting the values of the club was essential for the training of the youth players and did not hesitate to support another branch of the project: \u201cWhen the Department of Methodology and Psychology presented us with the Endavant Igualtat project, he had no hesitation in supporting it and wanted to set it up as soon as possible because for him it was the ideal way to train not only players, but as people in our youth team and he wanted to know first-hand how the teams related to each centre,\u201d says Mas\u00f3. We could say Jos\u00e9 Manuel was the pioneer of the Endavant project. Villarreal and its Foundation continue to do this work today thanks to the fact that the vice-president of the club himself believed in this project and followed it from the beginning to the end of each season,\u201d she added. 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