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Levante Hosts Stadium Wake After Repatriating Founder José Ballester

The club fulfills the exiled educator’s wish to rest in his native city.

Overview

  • A Levante delegation exhumed the remains of José Ballester and his wife, Teresa Molins, in Villiers-Adam near Paris last weekend for transfer to Valencia.
  • The wake was installed at the Ciutat de València, with a tribute held in the VIP box.
  • Attendees included French honorary consul Karin Nylund, Spain’s regional government delegate Pilar Bernabé, provincial vice president Natàlia Enguix, and local sports and civic leaders.
  • The couple will be buried privately at the Cabanyal cemetery, where they will rest alongside Ballester’s parents.
  • Ballester co-founded Levante as a teenager and later served as a pedagogue and Republican officeholder before exile in France, where he worked with Editorial Quillet and the French Assembly library.