Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Jul 20 (EFE).- The Unión Deportiva Las Palmas announced this Friday the dismissal for disciplinary reasons of the 18-year-old player Joel Domínguez, whom he had joined his first team on July 3.
Domínguez has been the protagonist of one of the club’s most intense controversies in recent months, after having been sentenced as the perpetrator of a crime of sexist violence to 40 days of work for the benefit of the community, for mistreating his girlfriend, a minor.
Part of the team’s fans did not understand that, despite this, they were being promoted from the youth team to the First Division first team, in a move that was also criticized by the main feminist groups on the island of Gran Canaria.
However, the president of UD Las Palmas, Miguel Ángel Ramírez, publicly defended that a club that collaborates in a social program for the reintegration of young people with legal problems should give Domínguez a chance, once his sentence has been completed.
For this reason, it was striking that, after incorporating him into the first team, the club did not have the young player for the preparation period that the team is doing in Marbella.
The club explains today in a statement that Joel did not travel to Marbella with his teammates due to a technical decision and that his contract has been terminated for “disciplinary reasons”, without going into further details.
During the 2022/23 season, Joel Domínguez played 22 games, 19 in the League and three in the Copa del Rey Juvenil, in which he scored eleven goals in the Juvenil Division of Honor category. EFE