MURCIA. The businessman from Lorca and Real Murcia fan Enrique Roca has made a very good start at his home, the renamed Enrique Roca Stadium in Murcia, and one of the current names of the considered first club in the Region can boast that the team of his heart has only experienced satisfactions at home grana since it carries its identity.
He has not scored a goal, nor has he given an assist, nor has he saved a penalty. He hasn’t even jumped onto the pitch … But this 54-year-old businessman who manages real estate businesses has fallen into the club of which he is a loyal follower. All this after committing to the payment of some 600,000 euros for four years, variable amount that will be increased in the event that the team ascends in category and leaves the Second Division B in which it is currently.
The premiere of Enrique Roca, with the lighting of the poster included, came the day that Murcia won a national title sixteen and a half years later thanks to the victory on penalties after 1-1 in the match and the extension against the Navarrese Tudelano Sports Club in the final of the Federation Cup.
That happened on Thursday, December 7 – just a week ago – and just three days later the Granas were victorious again in what was Nueva Condomina, this time in the League and against the eternal rival, Fútbol Club Cartagena. The 2-0 against the black and white and the cup trophy are two of the greatest joys that a Murcia in need of them has had lately and that, at least for now, seems to have changed the trend since he disputes his matches at home in a venue with a new nomenclature.
Neither in First nor Second Division nor in Second B is there another football stadium that has a patron paying to put his name and surname on the field.
In the highest category are the Santiago Bernabeu, he Ramón Sánchez Pizjuán and the Benito Villamarin, which pay tribute to former presidents of Real Madrid, Sevilla and Betis; and the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez who does the same with the former Getafe footballer.
Then there are the Wanda Metropolitano of Madrid and the Royal Arena of San Sebastián, which carry trade names but not of an individual but of multinational companies, which has been more common in Spain and in the rest of the world.
In second personal names they have the stadiums Martinez Valero from Elche, Carlos Tartiere from Oviedo, The Molinón Enrique Castro Quini from Gijón, Heliodoro Rodríguez López from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Ramon de Carranza from Cádiz, Carlos Belmonte from Albacete, Francisco de la Hera from Almendralejo, Angel Car from Lugo and Fernando Torres de Fuelabrada and in that category Deportivo plays its home games in the Abanca Riazor.
In Second B the fields are adapted to that nominal profile Alfredo di Stefano from Madrid, Alvarez Claro from Melilla and Pepe Ortiz from Gijón, in group I; Jose Rico Perez from Alicante, Antonio Puchades From Valencia, Dani jarque from Barcelona and Camilo Cano from La Nucía, in the III; and Jesus Navas of Sevilla, Ramon Blanco from Cádiz, Vicente Sanz from Don Benito, Antonio Lorenzo Cuevas of Marbella and Enrique Roca himself, in IV.
Thus, in the first three categories of Spanish football there are 25 scenarios that are named after a person but only in the case of Real Murcia is there someone who pays to do so. He is Enrique Roca, a lawyer, businessman and real estate developer who develops most of his activity in the coastal area of Alicante and who is a man who wants to leave his mark on what he does. Not in vain, in the center of Torrevieja he manages the building that is also called Enrique Roca.
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