The document accredits the extension in time of the contract that linked Levante U.D. and Serafín García Muñoz and forms part of the files kept by the Levante Historical Heritage Department.
Eduardo Clerigues and the player himself established the extension of a relationship that would cover the 1964-1965 and 1965-1966 seasons. The date of the signing, 19 September 1964, clarifies the context that the club was going through.
The Levante squad was facing its second season in the First Division and Serafín had become one of the bastions of a widely celebrated permanence in the Spanish top flight. The relationship between the Navarrese striker and the Vallejo club began to deepen after his arrival in the summer of 1960 from Deportivo de La Coruña.
Serafín was in his fifth season as a blaugrana player. In the blaugrana imagination, the penalty he scored against Deportivo de La Coruña in the second leg of the promotion play-off, which cleared the path towards the elite, shone brightly. The document, apart from stipulating the temporary duration of the agreement, includes the amounts agreed as a signing bonus, as well as the monthly salary to be received. Clerigues and Serafín, with their respective signatures, validate the established pacts.
However, the commitment made was never fulfilled. The relegation of Vallejo’s team, at the end of the 1964-1965 season, meant Serafín’s farewell and the end of his relationship with the institution. The striker changed the blue and red stripes of Levante for the same colour that identified the shirt of F.C. Barcelona. The transfer, as happened around the same time with the departure of Calpe to Real Madrid, helped to mitigate the battered economy of the club.
