The exmadridista Aldana, new director of the Marbella quarry

The former international soccer player Adolfo Aldana, who played for Real Madrid, Deportivo de La Coruña, Espanyol and Mérida, has been named new director of the Marbella youth team, announced this Thursday the Marbella club, which will play the promotion phase to LaLiga SmartBank.

Aldana retired as a professional player in the Second Division with Mérida at the end of the 1998-99 campaign, after training in the Madrid team and playing in the First with Real Madrid (1987-92), Deportivo (1992-96) and Espanyol (1996-98), and runs a football campus every summer in this town on the Costa del Sun.

In his new responsibility, the player from Cádiz, born 54 years ago in San Roque, will have the help of Óscar Felipe, who will be deputy director and methodology director of Marbella FC grassroots football. “This restructuring is framed within a firm strategic policy to provide our club with a quarry that becomes one of our fundamental pillars,” Marbella said in a statement.

The Marbella team has finished second this season in Group IV of Second Division B and at the end of July he will play the qualifying rounds for promotion to Second in an express phase that will take place in Marbella, Malaga and Algeciras (Cádiz), with the first four teams of the four groups in the category.