Athletic Resorts

  • In the spring of 2009 a turn of 180 degrees in the sport policy of the Athletic one occurred. The delegated advisor of the club, Miguel Angel Gil Marin, and the sport director of then, Jesus Garci’a Pitarch, traveled to Brazil to negotiate an agreement with Traffic, the more powerful agency of soccer players of the country and that works with a investment fund, with different percentage from participation in you pass them of its portfolio of players, something very common in South America. The idea was to clock on and off for equipment B – Liga de Professional Ftbol studied the possibility of organizing a championship closed, formed by branchs, imitating the model from international England to sub 15 and sub 17 with the Canarinha with a condition: the club and the company would distribute 50% of the rights of property of the young promises. Then, when the soccer players secured the nationality after a period of two to three years of stay in Spain – the time half necessary to obtain it and to stop being extracommunity, they would be sold revalued in the market..