Andorrahe small country in the Pyrenees, has been experiencing a strange situation these last few weeks. There is not a cloud in the sky, people walk through the streets of the capital in shorts and T-shirts, there is not a mushroom in the forests, the streams flow with little water, it is unbecomingly hot for autumn and the resident cyclists are They have gone on vacation. So the only strange circumstance, with local politics much calmer than among the southern neighbors, lies in the storm that threatens the future of the Football Club Andorrawith the serious threat launched by Gerard Piquéa well-known person, to take the football franchise away from the Pyrenean mountains.
“What is really behind the controversy?” ask Andorrans who are familiar with the case but who remain anonymous. The chaos began last week when Alain CabanesSecretary of State of the Government of Andorraassured that the tricolor team, owned by Kosmos Holding, the Pique with 56% of the shares, he would not be able to play at the Estadi Nacional next season, as the country’s main and only natural grass field was to be used by the local rugby team. “No one disputes that rugby is a minority sport, but all the players are Andorran, something typical of the country,” add the same people who reveal Cabanes’ sporting past, closely linked to the Andorran oval ball.
The response immediately came from Pique through a message launched on the social network X, the old Twitter. “There is no sports facility in Andorra with conditions to be able to compete next year. Thank you for expelling us from the country. We have no other solution than to leave and change the name of the club. Congratulations, you have left Andorra without professional football.” The post, according to the same sources, made people feel very bad. Andorran government.
As if that were not enough, the Morabanc Andorra -an aspect that should not go unnoticed- has returned to the ACB League with a competitive team, rooted in the country and that has a fan dedicated to basketball. Meanwhile, the Andorra It has an average of 2,200 spectators, one of the lowest in the Hypermotion League matches, as the Second Division is known. On the streets of the capital, certainly, there does not seem to be a deep concern for sporting aspects.
Sarabia, the team’s insignia
However, no one argues Eder Sarabia. The team’s main sporting insignia is on the bench occupied by whoever was Quique Setién’s assistant during his time as Barça coach. Sarabia, in his effort to speak Catalan, the official language of Andorra, in some press conferences, has come out in defense of the club and the “country project” represented by the team he directs and which is in a crisis of results.
On Sunday the Alcorcon Visit the National Stadium. The event coincides with the 81st anniversary of the creation of FC Andorra, in a key match after only 4 of the 24 possible points have been added in the last eight days after the exciting start to the season when the tricolor team came to co-lead the championship.
The controversy only revolves around the Olympic Stadium. Pique committed to building a stadium in Encamp, next to the Andorran capital. The Comú (city council) assured that it contributed part of the work with public money. The project was paralyzed and new land was sought, south of the capital, next to Santa Coloma. “But not even, in both cases, the photo has been taken with the laying of the first stone, which has bothered the country’s authorities,” the same sources assure.
Piqué is right when he assures that there is no other Andorran facility, because the old communal stadium in the capital, where the national team played before the Estadi Nacional was built, will be demolished to house the future conference palace. However, on Wednesday, as ‘Diari d’Andorra’ reported, there was a meeting between club directors (without Pique) with representatives of the Government, in what has been the first approach between both parties to unblock the situation after various Catalan towns have expressed their interest in obtaining the Andorran franchise, if the place in the Second Division is saved sportingly.
2023-10-13 08:45:35
#Piqués #team #unleashes #storm #Andorra
