30 years ago, Fernando Roig arrived at Villarreal CF, a modest Second Division club from a town of just 50,000 inhabitants that could hardly have imagined competing one day with Europe's giants. At that time, mobile phones were still a luxury for a few, the internet was just beginning to enter Spanish homes, and José María Áznar had just arrived at La Moncloa.
Roig made a promise that many received with disbelief: to take Villarreal to the First Division "within two years". Most didn't believe it was possible.
However, Roig didn't need that long. In just one season he achieved promotion to the First Division, surpassing the expectations of all the skeptics.
Three decades later, the story of Villarreal under Fernando Roig's leadership borders on the extraordinary, consolidating itself as one of the most successful clubs in Spanish and European football.
