The ‘Garai Berriak’ platform was recently presented at the Donostia Aquarium with Manu Díaz as a candidate for the presidency of the Guipuzcoan Football Federation, currently chaired by Juan Luis Larrea. An option that has gained an advantage. The candidacy explained its ideas, although the electoral date and whether or not Larrea will attend the process is still unknown, although by October 31 the assembly that elects the president must be constituted.
The promoters of the alternative board explained that the process to take the step and introduce themselves began almost a year ago and that they have held more than 30 zone meetings with different Gipuzkoan football agents. This summer they took the final step. According to them “after 32 years of management it is necessary for Gipuzkoan football to make a change, for any institution to make a change is healthy.”
The ‘Garai Berriak’ project aims to “Putting players, coaches, referees and clubs at the center” and “know their needs” to, once exposed, “launch new instruments that encourage participation”. But The controversy has jumped to the alternative group when it was discovered that Manu Díaz, a lawyer, coach and coach who works as a visible head, is a fan of Athletic, the eternal rival of the most representative club in the province of Gipuzkoa, La Real. A tweet launched in 2016 has raised blisters. In it there is a night photo of Donostia and the following text: “Saturday in Anoeta and today Monday looking at this painting. Everything is very tempting but I don't change. It's what it has to be Athletic.” Some fan has jumped on him, also reproaching him for having suppressed it to leave no trace, and Díaz has replied: “I am not a politician, I am someone who has spent 35 years in a club agreed with the Royal Society working for free, a sucker, don't think so. But I don't want to hide or give up what I've done in my life. That disables me? Greetings. “