Rivacoba leaves up in the air if he will stand for the Portugalete elections

Despite being their top priority, Portugalete not only has their head in the play-off for promotion to the Second RFEF that they will play in a few weeks. There is also movement at the institutional level, since the current Board of Directors, headed by Eduardo Rivacoba, is now concluding his second term as head of the jarrillera entity. Yesterday the electoral calendar was presented in the Euskaldun Berri Hall of the Santa Clara Cultural Center, where an extraordinary ‘express’ assembly was held, in which, surprisingly, the members did not question the president about his future or about any other issue. .

The leaders of Portugalete explained that those interested in forming a candidacy have one month to communicate it in the club’s offices. In case there are several plates, the elections would take place on June 14 and the final decision would be known three days later. EL CORREO later spoke with Eduardo Rivacoba, who indicated that he has not yet made the final decision to present himself to try to continue his work after eight years in the Florida chair. “I am proud of what I have done and may continue to do so, but many things have to be valued,” he says. “I also have to see how the season ends to know the state of mind that this generates in me, although it does not depend only on it, far from it,” he adds.

In the same way, he points out that “I can only say that it would be good for the club if there were diversity, I encourage people to come forward to contribute new ideas.” In this sense, the current jarrillero leader does not contemplate a very encouraging outlook for this electoral process. He considers it “complicated” today for someone to perform this task altruistically, in a world that has experienced profound professionalization. “The entire football environment and public institutions are making it very difficult for someone to take on such a huge responsibility,” he says. Another reliable proof that the environment of Portugalete is not very for the work, is that only 25 of the 750 members attended the assembly. That is, three percent. This, to the president, denotes that “there is not much interest in taking on this responsibility.”