A small group of players and trainers from CD Jávea, including President Mark Catlin and ‘Football Base’ Director Paco Pastor, this week travelled to and met with there counterparts at CF Villarreal.

The trip was organised to further cement growing links with the club and to organise a series of ‘friendlies’ of different age groups during this pre-season.

It was also agreed that some of CD Jávea’s better players would attend pre-season training at Villarreal with a view to the ‘best of the best’ progressing to the club sometime in the future.

Although the link at this stage is informal CF Villarreal have been pro-active in trying to assist CD Jávea in their attempt to make the club a ‘model’ for youth systems in the area.

It was also agreed that the door was open at CF Villarreal for Jávea trainers to go to them and experience further training and development.

CD Jávea announced this week that it was to be the subject of a documentary to be shown later this year on ‘Sky Sports’ back in the UK.

Club President Mark Catlin met with a camera and research crew from the UK satellite company at a hotel in Altea before they arrived in Jávea to attend the clubs ‘summer soccer school’ where they talked to parents, kids, and trainers about their experiences in Spain.

The subject of the documentary is to focus on the effect David Beckham has had for football generally in Spain and how his arrival here has raised awareness of the game in Spain back in the UK.

Mark revealed that they will be returning to Spain in September to finish the documentary where they will also be filming CD Jávea’s first few games of next season. “There has been a general raising of the profile and image of CD Jávea over the last few years and hopefully this documentary will further raise that influence, especially back in the UK. I think the biggest thrill was for the kids attending the summer soccer school, some of them were even interviewed, and Sky filmed many of them in training.”

Following the announcement that Paco Pastor is to become the clubs new ‘Cantera’ chief, CD Jávea have wasted no time in following this up with the announcement that Miguel Angel Diestro is to become ‘Secretario Tecnico’, and Kenny Brown the first team trainer.

Miguel Angel was chosen as ‘Secretario Tecnico’ due to his many contacts with players throughout the region and his coaching skills which will be put to good use in assisting Kenny Brown as he embarks on his first season as a Manager in Spain.

The club have already secured the services of 14 players for next season, holding 4 positions back for pre-season trialists that will be taking part in training leading up to the clubs first league game starting in September.

“I am very excited about this season at the club. With the election of a new President, and new faces coming into the club as a result, there is a fresh new feeling sweeping through CD Jávea. Many favourites from previous years are returning such as Ruben Pla and Puncho, plus we have managed to secure almost all the players we wanted from last season. I have played and coached at all levels in the UK but I have been very impressed with the work and commitment shown by Miguel Angel, he is young, enthusiastic, and is desperate to achieve his football ambitions with us at CD Jávea.” Commented Kenny Brown.

In addition to Puncho and Ruben Pla, CD Jávea have confirmed the following have already signed for the club:

ORTOLA (CD JÁVEA)
JULIO IBORRA (CD JÁVEA)
ALEX CUADRADO (CD JÁVEA)
CARLO  (CD JÁVEA)
JOSE LUIS BISQUERT (CD JÁVEA)
JORGE (ALICANTE ‘B’)
BARRACHINA  (EMFU L'ALCUDIA)
JOSE LUIS   (ALACUAS)
ROBERTO AÑON (BENIFAIO)
JAVI  (JAVEA)
JUANMA  (CD JÁVEA)
PUNCHO   (POLOP)
JUANITO  (VILAJOIOSA)
SERGIO PEDRAZ PEDROSA ‘CHILI’ (AT. TERESIANO)

Application forms for 2007/8 Youth Teams Now Available!

CD Jávea this week announced that 'Paco' Pastor will be running the clubs youth section for the 2007/8 season, with ultimate responsibility for all youth teams from Juvenil (under 18's), to Pre-Benjamin (under 7's).

There was several candidates put forward for the position, including applicants that had coached in the 'cantera' last season, but Paco impressed the club with his projects and plans for driving the club forward over the next 4 years.

New President Mark Catlin has always stressed that he believes the successful future of the club will depend on how well the club's academy is run, and the job Paco has is possibly the most important position at the club.

"We had other very good candidates that were keen on the job but ultimately it came down to 2 things, Paco is a school 'professor' and finishes work at 1PM so has the time needed to fulfil this important role. Secondly he wants a 'structured' academy, with the complete development of the kids as part of his plan. With Paco you will not simply get a training session from the trainers that finishes and the kids are sent home, he wants an evaluation of the kids after each session with everything noted such as timekeeping, discipline, attitude and overall behaviour, then every 3 months the parents will be invited to a meeting with the trainer to talk over there 'report'. In addition our trainers will undergo constant checks and evaluations to make sure that THEY reach the standard required by the club." President Mark Catlin

MIKE SMITH ELECTED AS MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY

At the first board meeting of the new 'Junta Directiva' for CD Jávea, Mike Smith was elected as new membership secretary, and will be responsible for growing the 'socio' membership of the club.

Immediately the board have voted to cut the cost of membership for the 2007/8 season to just €100, this entitles the card holder and his family (wife and kids under 16), free entry to all the clubs home games, PLUS a voice at the AGM, and the chance to vote on issues affecting the club in the future. OAP'S will benefit from paying just €30 for the season.

“If you are a supporter of the club then this is a fantastic way to show your loyalty PLUS benefit from free entry to home games for the 2007/8 season.

To a large degree, the success of the club for the coming season depends on the finances it is able to raise in the next few weeks to attract the best players to the club, and every person that purchases a 'socio' membership will be helping CD Jávea to compete with its rivals for the 2007/8 season. At the moment we have around 140 ‘socios’, but if we can expand this to around 500 then we have a fantastic base to grow our club, both in terms of support and financially, and this will help us achieve our aim of promotion during the next 4 years.

I urge all supporters of CD Jávea that want to help us achieve our goals to become a 'socio' as soon as possible!" President Mark Catlin

Membership forms for the 2007/8 season are available by telephoning or emailing either Mark Catlin or Mike Smith on the contact details given below.

CD Jávea this week elected Mark Catlin as President to serve a minimum 4 year term.

In an emotional and sometimes stormy ‘asamblea’, Mark was elected on a vote of 76 to 8.

Speaking before the vote to the gathered ‘socios’ Mark explained that what the club needs at the moment is stability and he was not going to make any rash promises about how well the club was going to do next season.

Much bad blood had been built up in the club during the previous 4 years which hopefully now will be buried as the new President looks to all members to participate in helping push the club forward.

“I finished the meeting thanking the members for their confidence and pledging to win over the eight that voted against me!” commented Mark. “The club cannot go on as it is and we have to make a clean start as from today. I have been involved on the board now for 2 years and have a good idea of what is needed to turn things around, but it will not be easy and difficult decisions will have to be made. I cannot, and would not, make predictions about how well we are going to do on the pitch next season, but what I will promise is that CD Jávea will be professionally run, disciplined, and will become a club that many other football clubs in this area will become envious of.”

The new President immediately announced that socio membership will be cut to just €100 for next season. “A socio membership is a fantastic way to show you support the club. For just €100 you get free access for yourself and your family to all of next seasons home games PLUS you become an official member of the club and have additional rights such as voting at AGM’s.”

WEST HAM UNITED ARRIVE FOR JÁVEA FRIENDLY!

West Ham United’s all-conquering under 14 team arrive in Jávea this Thursday (17th May) to take part in 2 friendlies arranged by CD Jávea football club.

The first will be at 18.00 hours on Friday 18th May against CD Jávea’s own league winners, and then on Saturday 19th May at 18.00 hours against a team from Villarreal. Both games are free entry and everyone is welcome to attend.

CD Jávea have been keen to develop ‘links’ with teams from outside of Spain and this is a further advancement of that policy. It is hoped that although initially youth teams are ‘testing the water’ for the Premiership clubs this will result at some stage in the senior teams coming to Jávea and further strengthening ties with the club.

MANCHESTER CITY CONFIRM TOURNAMENT PARTICIPATION!

Manchester City football club have confirmed that for the second year running they will be taking part in the end of season ‘youth’ tournament to be held on May 26th.

Last year Manchester City defeated Valencia in the final on penalties and CD Jávea are hoping that event this year will be as equally well supported.

In addition to CD Jávea, Alicante have also accepted an invitation to attend. It is believed that Villareal are to fill the 4th spot but as of today the club are awaiting confirmation of this.

Last seasons victorious captain was one Michael Johnson who this season went on to establish himself as a regular in the Manchester City first team and is already being touted as a possible future England International.

CD Jávea Director of football, Kenny Brown, this week announced that following the success of its summer soccer school at the start of the season, the club will be running an Easter football camp.

“The summer school at the start of the season was a fantastic success and I am sure that both the kids and coaches will benefit as much from this camp as the one that we laid on during the summer. I will be in attendance every day and we are lucky to have other fantastic coaches that will, I am sure, make this camp even more successful than the last one that we put on.”

The dates for the ‘school’ are to be 5/6/9/10/11/12 of April (6 days, 9.30am to12 midday) and it is understood that this will be strictly limited to a maximum of 60 kids from ages 7-16.

Places are filling up fast so anyone interested in there kid taking part should contact Mark Catlin on 901 888 666 or email him at mark@cdjavea.com

CD Jávea Director of football Kenny Brown has announced that CD Jávea have completed the season long loan signing of young striker ‘Salu’ from FC Torrevieja.

Kenny worked with Salu previously in the Torre ‘B’ team before leaving to take up his position in Jávea. “I have long been an admirer of Salu, he is only 19 years old and I wanted to have signed him before the season started but he chose to sign for his (local) Torrevieja team. When it became clear the injury to our striker Raul was serious we contacted Torrevieja about our problem and they offered us as much support as was possible. When I asked about Salu in particular the response was positive and I would like to thank Pedro Cordero, Eddie Cagigao, Tuto, and Andy Hermida for making this happen so quickly, CD Jávea will not forget this. Salu has not really featured for Torrevieja this season so obviously Torre hope that he will benefit from playing regular first team football with us.”

CD Jávea this week announced that its sponsors for the first team this coming season would be wireless internet connections company, ‘Telitec’.

Club President, Juanjose Buigues Ortola, looked forward to developing a relationship with a company that, like the club, was looking to develop itself over the coming years.

“This is a fantastic deal for the club, Telitec is a developing company and we hope that as the company grows they will become further involved with us. All our sponsors are important to us, but the first team sponsor is always ‘the big one’. Telitec has signed a one year deal but we hope that as Telitec grows it will grow with us, and we will of course work to promote the company wherever possible.”

Tony Hartley, Sales Director of Telitec, spoke of his confidence in the club and the direction it is taking. “Our central operations at present are based in and around the Jávea area but as the club plays all along the Costa Blanca it was a natural choice for us to support the local club as it plays in almost all of the areas that we hope to be covered by our service over the coming year. I am a supporter anyway, so to be able to now travel and watch CD Jávea as main sponsor will be a massive thrill for me personally and many of the staff who already support the club.”

It is understood that last seasons sponsors ‘Go Insure It’ will remain heavily involved with the club, sponsoring one of its youth academy teams, and remaining closely linked with CD Jávea during this coming year.

CD Jávea this week added yet another ‘big name’ star to it’s playing staff. ‘Yann’ (Xoan André Grivell Castell) put pen to paper and joined what is looking more and more like a team that can compete with the best the Preferente league can offer this season.

Club President, Juanjose Buigues Ortola, met with Yann along with Kenny Brown and Mark Catlin on Friday (4th August) in an effort to secure him and it seems that the long hours of talks convincing him to sign was worth it.

President ‘Juanjose’ praised Alberto, the manager, for his role in the signing. “Yann, along with Raúl, are now the icing on the cake as far as signings for us this season. Yann initially had reservations about dropping down the leagues to play for us, but because he was convinced of our ambition, and his confidence in Alberto and Kenny, the signing became possible. Players are now coming here because they know that we have the right structures and management in place, and are turning down big offers from other clubs because they want to play for us. This means everything to me, players wanting to play for CD Jávea, and not just for the money.”

It is believed that Yann turned down a ‘big money’ offer from another well known Costa Blanca club moments before he signed, even though the President of this club personally intervened to try to make him change his mind.

CD Jávea announced today that they have finally manager to secure the services of striker Raúl Ibáñez for the 2006/7 season.

Raúl has had a fantastic career, playing for teams that include Valencia and Elche.

Mark Catlin, Commercial Director of the club expressed his delight at the strikers signing for CD Jávea. “This is in my opinion one of the most important signings that we have ever made at the club. Alberto wanted him and as a club we came together to make this happen. Juanjose Buigues Ortola, Myself, Alberto, and Kenny Brown, in fact everyone at the club, worked to ensure that he came to us. I am also overjoyed with Raúl himself. He had other offers, nearer to where he lives for more money, but he chose us. This is a very special club and personally I would love to see Raúl here for many years to come, guiding our younger players and being someone the rest of the team look up to. We have a good, young team, and mixed with the 5 or 6 experienced players we now have we will be very competitive this season. Raúl has the opportunity to help us achieve our goals and I hope that this will prove to be a huge motivating factor for him during his time at CD Jávea.”

It is also believed that CD Jávea have another ‘big’ signing in the pipeline as they enter a month of pre-season training before the big kick-off on September 3rd.

CD Jávea this week completed the signings of a further 6 players for the 2006/7 season.

Re-signing from last season, young right back Julio Ivorra 22, striker Salva Costa 23, goalkeeper Aurelio 25, and central defender Juanjose Villamayor 29.

New signing Sergi, plus young British talent George Jefry, also put pen to paper and joined the array of talent now at the club. As we go to press we are waiting for further details of these players.

Director of Football Kenny Brown was full of praise for the team that Manager Alberto and Secretario Tecnico, Vicente Blanes, has assembled for the 2006/7 campaign. “So far we have secured the services of all the players that we wanted bar one, Chamorro. Chamo is a fantastic player and we are sad to lose him to, we believe, La Nucia. We have stuck to our guns economically and although he wanted to stay with us the financial offer from La Nucia was just too great for him to turn down. Myself, the club, and Alberto, wishes him well and you never know we might one day see him back wearing the red and white colours he graced so well for us at CD Jávea.”

Kenny also revealed that two key signings were hanging in the balance. “We have two ‘star’ players contemplating joining us that are touch and go. Both have offers on the table from second division teams that are offering far more money than us, but they are excited by what we are doing here and are keen to work with Alberto. We have done all that we can to convince them of our plans and now we have to just hope that their ambition overrides the financial offers from other clubs.”

CD Jávea Director of football Kenny Brown this week announced the clubs pre-season friendly list:

Saturday 05/08/06: 8pm CD Javea vs San Marcelino, Jávea Municipal stadium.

Wednesday 09/08/06: 8pm CD Javea vs Benidorm CD, Jávea Municipal stadium.

Friday 18/08/06: (time to be confirmed) Guadassuar CF vs CD Javea, Guadassuar stadium.

Saturday 19/08/06: 8pm CD Javea vs UD Oliva, Jávea Municipal stadium.

Wednesday 23/08/06: 8pm CE Alberic vs CD Javea, Alberic Stadium.

“I advise all supporters to regularly check www.cdjavea.com or www.javeamigos.com to confirm if there are any changes to the programme, plus we are looking at possible one or two games that may be arranged at short notice.”

CD Jávea this week completed the signings of three new players for the 2006/7 season. Ruben Galera “RUBEN” 22 from CF Gandia. Juan Manuel Soccedd Jaime “JUANMA” 31 from Calpe CF. Also played for UD Benissa and CF Gandia. Alberto Fernandez Gomez “ALBERTO” 21 has played for CD Denia and Ondarense CF. In addition to theses 3 ‘new’ players, young Jávea defender Julio Ivorra committed to another season with the ‘roljiblancos’.

Coach Alberto Aroijo, technical secretary Vicent Blanes, and Director of football Kenny Brown, have all been working hard behind the scenes these last few months in trying to assemble a team that has a mixture of both youth and experience for the coming season, while at the same time working within a budget that is affordable to the club. Their patience and hard work now appears to be paying dividends as quality players that WANT to play for the club are now joining the CD Jávea ranks, something Kenny Brown was quick to explain. “Obviously money comes into it when a player decides to play for a club, but a player has to be happy, and for the sake of a few hundred Euros a month I know that I would rather be playing in front of 800 people a week, than one man and his dog. Also the set up here is fantastic and with our new pitch, club spirit, young ambitious manager, I know where I would want to play!”

Promising young footballing sensation, ‘Dino’ Climent Llobell this week put pen to paper and became new Director of Football, Kenny Brown’s first signing since taking over his position. “This was an important signing for us. Dino is young, from Jávea, and players such as him are the future of our club. He is only 20 years old and has tremendous pace and talent.

The biggest part of my job will be to work with Manager Alberto in now developing this young talent within our club so that Alberto has a great squad of players to choose from. The club have taken the decision to work to a point where the majority of our squad will, in the future, originate from the Jávea area, this is why our youth academy and the appointment of Mitgeta to run this academy was so important to us. Dino is a fantastic lad and has impressed me greatly since his arrival, he just wants to play football for CD Jávea, and these are the type of players we want at the club in the future.”

Kenny has been working behind the scenes with Manager Alberto and technical secretary Vicente Blanes in structuring the team for next season. It is believed that during next week full details of the team for next season will be released as pre-season training approaches.

CD Jávea kicked off the new football season in style this week with the opening week of its fantastic summer soccer school.

New CD Jávea ‘Director of Football’ Kenny Brown started proceedings by stressing that although the emphasis would be on fun, the point of the training school was to develop talent and hopefully spot some stars of the future.

Kenny commented “over the next six weeks it gives me an ideal opportunity to work both with the kids and trainers and we hope that the school is beneficial both to us in developing talent, and the kids in having a great time, while learning from the talented coaches that are running each age group of the school. Juan Ivars ‘Mitgeta’, our new youth director, is assisting and this also gives us a great opportunity to work together. I have seen what he has achieved at other clubs and his project for the future of our youth academy is as good as I have seen anywhere. I must stress though that the school is not just for kids of Jávea, anyone from any area who wants to progress and benefit from what we are doing is more than welcome to contact us and attend.”

The summer soccer school will be running from July 10th for 3 weeks, there is then a one week gap followed by a further three weeks starting August 7th. Kids of all abilities and talents are welcome and further details are available by contacting Mark Catlin on 901 888 666 or favourably full details are available via the CD Jávea website, www.cdjavea.com

CD Jávea took another giant step towards their goal of having the best Cantera (Youth Academy) north of Alicante and south of Valencia, when they this week announced the arrival of former manager ‘Mitgeta’ to oversee the clubs youth development policy.

Club President Juanjose Buigues Ortola made the announcement at the clubs weekly committee meeting. “Our policy for the future will be to place more emphasis on the development of talent from within the area of Jávea. To achieve this we need strong professional football staff such as Mitgeta who not only command respect but also have the necessary experience to develop not only the players but our coaches as well. Our kids will only ever be as good as the coaches that are coaching them and this is a key area that Mitgeta will be working on from this moment”

This has been a whirlwind month for CD Jávea, announcing the appointments of Alberto as first team boss, Kenny Brown as Director of football, and now Mitgeta as head of the Cantera. Kenny Brown expressed his delight at securing the services of Mitgeta. “For me this appointment was crucial as the two people I will be working with on almost a daily basis are the First team manager and head of the Cantera, on the footballing front these two are crucial to our future success and in Alberto and Mitgeta the senior and youth sections are now in good hands.”

Alberto Araujo Corvera finally put pen to paper this week, signing a new contract keeping him at the club for next season.

President Juanjose Buigues Ortola expressed his delight at securing the promising young Manager’s services next term. “This is yet more fantastic news for the Club. Alberto is young, bright, dynamic, and exactly what the club needs to build on for future years. Part of the reason he signed was that he knew Kenny Brown was coming to the club; likewise, Kenny Browns decision was influenced because he was excited to be working with such a young talent as Alberto. In previous years at CD Jávea the first team manager has only been interested in the first team, but Alberto is keen to help at the club in any aspect, including developing the kids, and this is important to our future. We want to develop an atmosphere where everyone feels part of what is happening, from the youngest kids through to the adult first team, we are ALL part of CD Jávea. Football is football, and I like Alberto will not be making any promises about how well we are going to do this season, but what I can promise is that the WHOLE club will be moving in the right direction from now on.”

New club Director of football, Kenny Brown, became a fan of Alberto after just one meeting. “Luckily in my life I have been involved with some great footballers and managers and after just one meeting I was impressed with Alberto. He is highly ambitious, has enormous enthusiasm, and is just the sort of person that we need to help take the club to the next level. I watched the last few games of the season, and also his training sessions, and was very impressed not just with his training but his tactical awareness as well. As Director of football I am here for him, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and I hope that with my experience this will prove to be of use to Alberto as the season progresses.”

CD Jávea this week announced that Kenny Brown was taking over as the clubs ‘Director of Football’. Kenny, 38, has had a distinguished football career playing for, amongst others, West Ham United, Birmingham City, and Crystal Palace. As manager he guided Barry Town into the Champions League and was named ‘manager of the year’ for Wales 2 years in succession before moving to Spain to continue his playing career with FC Torrevieja. Kenny also holds the prestigious UEFA ‘A’ coaching license, and comes from a family with pure football pedigree, his father played in the successful West ham team of the 60’s alongside such greats as Bobby Moore and Geoff Hurst, before going on to manage such clubs as Norwich City.

Club Director Mark Catlin expressed his delight at Kenny’s appointment. “Kenny will be given complete control of all football matters at the club, this is not a part time appointment but a full time job in which we hope Kenny will completely restructure the club from top to bottom. In any business the most important person is the man at the top, and in Kenny we have chosen well. The days of carpenters, car mechanics, or estate agents running football activities have gone. The club shares my vision of where we want the club to go and they have realised that to achieve this we needed to bring someone of Kenny’s quality in, success might not happen overnight but the long term strategy is spot on. This is a fantastic football club and not only do we now have some of the best facilities in the area, we now also have the best quality staff.”

Kenny himself expressed his delight at signing for the ‘rojiblancos’. “I am delighted to be coming to a club such as CD Jávea. I spent about a month deciding whether to sign, having not long moved to Spain this would be another upheaval for me and the family, but having spent time here in Jávea I know that this is the club for me. I have been extremely impressed with the set-up here, the facilities, the coaching staff, the directors, all played a part in making my mind up. I would never say that we are going to achieve X. Y, or Z this season, but what I can promise is that I will give 100% and believe that with my experience I can take the club up to the next level it is so desperate to achieve.”

CD Jávea President, Juanjose Buigues Ortola, and club Comercial Director Mark Catlin, this week confirmed that a meeting had taken place between them and Valencia football club President Juan Soler.

The three met in Jávea on Friday night where Valencia C.F confirmed that they will be sending a team to take part in next months youth tournament in Jávea along with Hercules from Alicante and Manchester City.

Valencia C.F President Juan Soler also confirmed that depending upon Champions leagues commitments Valencia would be willing to send a team to take part in a pre-season friendly against CD Jávea.

Mark Catlin commented “We talked for about 2 hours, the first hour being about the tournament, then an hour about football in the region generally. We spent time explaining the goals we had at the club and he offered us any assistance he could provide. We are now on course to achieve our dream of making Jávea the centre of excellence for football south of Valencia and north of Alicante. We have excellent contacts at Manchester City, West Ham, Villareal and now Valencia. Each of these clubs are now at our disposal if we have promising youngsters that could benefit from either trips to train with them, or trainers from these clubs coming here to work with us. The next part of the jigsaw is to next season restructure our youth teams from top to bottom. We have already employed Eduard Briones to assist us as coordinator and his professionalism is already paying dividends, we are also in talks with a top ex-pro and if this is successful I believe the foundations will then be in place to take our club on to another level.”

Next months one day tournament on May 27th is already shaping up to be one of the biggest sporting events ever held in Jávea. Many famous footballers, Club Presidents from Valencia, Hercules, Manchester City, and countless Ex-Pros have already confirmed there intention to attend the event.

“I am very disappointed that it looks as though the pitch will not be ready for the start of the new season though I have to admit that I have seen this coming for a while,” said Mark. “In Jávea the ground and facilities of the club are owned by the council and they informed us that work on a new astroturf pitch and stadium renovation would begin in June. By July nothing had happened and now I am told the beginning of August!”

Mark attended a special meeting between the football club, the council, and the developers to discuss concerns about the lack of activity at the stadium and was assured that the work would take no longer than six weeks. However this is likely to mean that the ground will be unavailable for the start of the season.

“Our options are to play these at either Gata de Gorgos or Pedreguer,” admitted Mark. “My preferred option, and the one agreed to by the Club President, is to ask the Presidents of the opposing clubs to ‘switch’ fixtures, so we play our first four games ‘away’ but do not lose out on any ‘home’ games. This I believe is a strong possibility but until we know who our games are against (the fixtures have not yet been released) we cannot contact the opposing Presidents. What I can assure supporters is that if they want to go to a game deemed as ‘home’ but we have to play this at Gata or Pedreguer, then the club will make free arrangements for them to get to the game.”

Acting JAVEAMIGOS President Mike Smith also expressed concern at the lack of information from the club about the new players at the football club but revealed this had now been remedied.

“After discussions with the football club and midfielder Jeff MacLean it has been agreed that Jeff will act as a ‘bridge’ between the players and supporters, enabling the supporters to have a direct route to the players and letting the feelings of both groups to be known to each other. This is great news and will allow the peña to really feel like an integral part of the future of CD Jávea.”

Mark Catlin can be contacted on 901 888 666 (local rate), or email mark@cdjavea.com

Mike Smith can be contacted on 600 215 808 or info@javeamigos.com

Mark Catlin can be contacted on 901 888 666 (local rate) or email mark@cdjavea.com