Three Valencia CF players, Thierry Correia, Jesus Vazquez and Maximiliano Caufriez were seen helping with the club’s collection of food and other donations at the Mestalla stadium.
A nice gesture. Affected by the terrible floods that hit the Valencia region, Thierry Correia, Jesus Vazquez and Maximiliano Caufriez, three Valencia CF players, came to bring food and basic necessities to a collection organized by the Valencian club in the spans of the Mestalla stadium.
“The entire Valencia CF workforce is committed to helping in this situation and is contributing to the collection of food and basic necessities at the Mestalla stadium,” comments the club in a Twitter post accompanied by the video of the three players and their shopping carts full of food.
In Levante, the union of an entire club
The city’s other club, Levante UD, also set up a collection in its stadium, where players came to lend a hand both to bring food and to manage the organization afterwards. On its Twitter account, the club lists welcome products: mineral water, milk, non-perishable food, hygiene and cleaning products, shovels, baby food, but also coats.
“Football is the most important thing of the least important things,” comments the club with a video showing its workforce in action, sorting and stacking the different foodstuffs brought in. The captain of Levante, Vicente Iborra, was also seen in Paiporta, the epicenter of the floods, with his whole family, walking with shovels in hand to help those most affected to evacuate the water.
Players mobilized to help residents
Players from Valencia CF, Paula Sancho, Claudia Florentino, Asun Martinez and Ainhoa Alguacil, also mobilized individually. “Without thinking, after training, they went to Paiporta by car, loaded with backpacks and suitcases, to distribute water and aid,” says a journalist present when they arrived.
The Valencia region has been hit hard by the so-called “gota fria” (“cold drop”) phenomenon, an isolated high-altitude depression that causes sudden and extremely violent rains, sometimes for several days. The toll, still provisional, from the floods which devastated the south-east of Spain this week now stands at 158 dead, according to an official statement from the emergency services published on the X network.
