Villarreal to play a friendly honoring Mario Gaspar in Novelda

Villarreal have agreed to play a friendly match against Novelda, a club that competes in the same Tercera División group as Villarreal C.

The Novelda town council suggested this as part of a day honoring Mario Gaspar, born in the town.  There will be a civic reception in his honor and his name will be inscribed in the town "Book of Honor".  Pretty cool.

Novelda is a town about half the size of Vila-real, 27,000 people.  It apparently has some neat Art Moderne buildings in case anyone reading this happens to want to wander down there for the match and do some sightseeing.  The match will be played this Thursday at 8.30pm local time.

Congratulations, Mario!