Movistar and Arabia’s collaboration announcement is incomplete
Money and Arab influence in western sports is something so common, that sometimes I don’t understand as much commotion as yesterday, when we found out about the collaboration agreement between the Movistar Team and Saudi Arabiathrough, I understand, your federation.
The certain thing is that the announcement of yesterday enters the habitual mold of these communiqués.
They talk about collaboration, they focus on technical personnel and training methods, but little talk about what we all want to know: the panicle.
And it is so, and this is reflected, for example, in Cyclingnews, which leaves doubt in the air, something that I have not read on other sites.
A few weeks ago, during the Vuelta, Eusebio Unzue spoke of fresh money for the structurethen came the ephemeral rumors of Repsol and now this.
Is Arabia the patron that is going to increase the budget of the Movistar Team?
That is the mother of the lamb and the question for which no one has, right now, an answer, as much as we can imagine that it would have to be.
As I said at the beginning, Arab money and influence in the very expensive Western sport is a fact that we already know is not exclusive to cycling.
In the case of Saudi Arabia, its relationship with Spanish football is obvious, in addition to investing in other sports such as Formula 1, golf and cycling, with the Saudi Tour organized by ASO, like one of those pre-season bowling in the middle of the desert. , before the transcendental campaign begins.
For the countries of the area, it is essential to get rid of the yoke of oil by activating actions outside of it, well advised from the West.
They began by entering luxury fashion brands, colognes and such things, followed by infrastructures and they arrived at sports, seeing cycling as something very western in which they are also interested in being present and incidentally whiten his image.
It escapes no one that these countries are not a paradigm of human rights or an equal time between women and men, but That has not been an obstacle to deny your money and keep the party going.
Because when we applaud a runner from Bahrain or the UAE, or to see Movistar next year, we strip ourselves of all the prejudices we may have about them.
In this sense, there is a very interesting interview with Gino Mäder, a broker who has had a certain commitment to issues such as the environment, in which he shrugs his shoulders when asked about the salary he receives and his payer, the state of Bahrain.
I come to say yes, that it is not aesthetic, that it is not edifying at first, but that the racket needs money and this right now is on that side of the hemisphere and even if we cross each other, the one who manages the structures will not hesitate to take it if the future is in it.
Let’s not forget that soon we will see a soccer World Cup taken out of the summer to be played in Qatar and that we will all end up looking the other way on these issues.
As with everything, the devil is in the detail and we do not know 100% of the content of that agreementhow much it means to the coffers of the team manager and what considerations he will have, for example, in the jersey.
For this reason, performing the autopsy before knowing the price of all this seems hasty to me.
2023-07-04 17:10:22
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