Last week gave a lot to talk about a trip to Qatar by a delegation from FC Barcelona headed by the president, Joan Laporta, who was accompanied by managers Xavier Puig and Joan Soler, both from the Sports Area. In Doha, the country’s capital, they were met with Qatari businessmen of the Baladi Holding. Mohammed bin Abdullah Al-Attiyah, Chairman of his Board of Directors, was already at the Spotify Camp Nou witnessing Barça-Mallorca. In the box he was presented also with a shirt with his name and posed with Laporta and Puig, with whom he met again three weeks later as host.
As Mundo Deportivo has learned, one of the options on the table and that the Qatari businessmen are proposing to Barcelona is the creation of an FC Barcelona team in the Arab country, a kind of franchise with the idea of attracting in the future to other big European clubs. Of course, the model should be carefully studied, if possible, if there are legal incompatibilities and other concepts.
for now are preliminary scores in search of new income, since the Barça brand is very powerful internationally. Joan Laporta, for the moment, is knowing the details of the proposal.
QATAR-SAUDI ARABIA STRUGGLE
Also recently traveled to Saudi Arabia, which together with Qatar competes for sports leadership in the Arab world. The possibility, revealed by the newspaper ‘Tuttosport’, of creating a Super League in Saudi Arabia and for Barça and Juventus to compete if they were sanctioned by UEFA, is parallel to possibility of a franchise in Qatar. That is, they are not exclusive.
The creation of a bonded team against Barcelona in Qatar, a kind of franchise, is another story and it does not go along the same lines. It is a proposal, nothing more than that, but it could mean an economic injection that would be a great relief for the Barcelona club, which continues to be one of the standard bearers of the European Super League along with Real Madrid. The Court of Luxembourg It must pronounce itself in a few weeks to proclaim its sentence in this regard. In the event that it decides whether there is a monopoly of UEFA in the organization of European competitions, the current panorama could be turned upside down.
Back to a possible franchise in Qatar, would be similar to the one that Manchester City, through the City Group, has in Major League Soccer in the United States with New York City. It was created in 2013 by the current European champion and the New York Yankees and played its first match in 2015 assuming the light blue color of Manchester City as its own. Players at sunset of his career as David Villa, Andrea Pirlo and Frank Lampard helped propel his brand. Something similar could happen with Barça in Qatar
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2023-06-23 05:33:16
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