The year began for the clubs of Córdoba tinged with mourning. Francisco Castillerowho was president of the Federation for two decades during which the entity experienced notable growth in its presence in the city, died at the age … of 79 years oldas confirmed by the entity itself.
Francisco Castillero arrived as president of the Federation of Peñas de Córdoba in 1995 and revalidated the position in four other elections, almost always against different rivals who contested the position. Francisco Castillero Rey was born in 1946 in the neighborhood of Old Cane.
From the age of 13, he had to start working, first as a mechanic, then in the goldsmithingwhere he entered as an apprentice at the age of fourteen on an endless journey that lasted seven days of work. At 18, he is already an officer and must take charge of the workshop where he works.
He entered clubs, as he admitted in an interview with ABC, to chancewhile he was representing the group Rocero Los del Sur and asked the Peña Egabrense for a place for the weekly rehearsal. He stayed there for nine years then joined the Fishing Club.
He always wanted to leave, as he admitted, but he never ended up doing so. Francisco Castillero’s period as president was marked by his influence on the Federation of Peñas. He was very close to the then president of Cajasur, Miguel Castillejothen to Rosa Aguilar, mayor from 1999 to 2009.
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From there we remember numerous episodes in which he boasted of the influence of the clubs and that he even said it to mayors, like Rafael Merinoswhom he claimed to have grabbed by the neck to insist on the importance of respecting an agreement, as well as to municipal councilors. He participates in town hall meetings.
In 2015, he was a candidate for re-election, but Alphonse Morales He won these elections and inaugurated a new stage in which the Federation of Supporters Clubs continued to play an important role, but not with such a pronounced role. The wake takes place at the funeral home. Grenada.
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