Luis Gil, former CD Tenerife player and LALIGA competition director, dies | CD Tenerife
Former Tenerife footballer Luis Gil Torres (La Pobla de Valbona, Valencia, 1976) died this Sunday at the age of 48. An attacking midfielder and striker with over 400 caps in the first three national categories, he earned 21 caps in the 06–07 season. Since 2017, he has been director of competitions and players’ office at LALIGA, after leading the Spanish Footballers’ Association (AFE) between 2010 and 2016.
Luis Gil became a representative in the summer of 2006, when he turned thirty and received a letter of freedom after completing a three-season stay at Elche. Although he was destined to discuss with Ayoze García on the left flank of the blue and white midfield, Bernd Kraus rotated him in this position or as a second striker.
He made his debut on the second day away to Cadiz (0-1), starting in the starting line-up alongside Raul Sanchez in an attacking duo, although he was replaced by Ruano (m.67) at the end of the second half.
Before the dismissal of the German coach, he was in the starting lineup in eight of the nine subsequent matches – with the exception of the regional classic match in Las Palmas (0-0), in which he replaced Juan Ramon (m.83) – and in that season’s ephemeral run in Copa del Rey (1-2 against Deportivo Alaves).
With Krauss replaced by Juan Martínez, “Casuco”, Gil lost weight in the team and alternated between starting and substitute appearances five times until he completed a total of twenty-one lineups, the last time in the 36th round against ” Ponferradin” (0-1). With the 07-08 pre-season already underway, he reached an agreement to terminate his contract and signed with Alicante, the penultimate club of a fourteen-year career in the First, Second and current First RFEF, which began at RCD Mallorca and ended at Alcoyano. .
Before his retirement, Gil was already a director of the Spanish Footballers’ Association (AFE), an organization he led from March 2010 to January 2016, actively participating in the negotiations for the Professional Football Collective Agreement.
In July 2017, he joined LALIGA as Director of Competitions and LALIGA Players Office, an area in which he was actively involved in the welfare of footballers, better coordination with other institutions in the preparation of calendars or development of competitions, among other things. functions.
The Spanish professional football organization expressed sadness over the death of Luis Gil in a press release: “He was, above all, a great man and one of the best teammates anyone could have,” it said in a statement describing him . professional level, as one of the “most dedicated and hardworking people in the football industry, always attentive, cooperative and ready to help.”
In the next #RealOviedoTenerife match (28.04, 15:15) the blue and white players will be in mourning, and in the next home match with Racing de Ferrol (5.05, 20:00, HRL) a minute of silence will be held in memory of him. D.E.P.