Fernando Martín, former president of Real, serious due to coronavirus

Fernando Martín Álvarezwhat was interim president of Real Madrid between February 2006 and April of the same year and owner of the Martinsa company, he is in the ICU of the Puerta de Hierro Hospital in Madrid suffering from coronavirus. Last Saturday, another former president of the club, Lorenzo Sanz, died of the same disease.

Martín, 72 years old, graduated in Chemical Sciences, He assumed the club's presidency after Florentino Pérez's resignation in February 2006. In those two months, the team did not lose a league game, but was eliminated from the Champions League by Arsenal.

On April 26, the board of directors decided to call elections for the club's presidency against his opinion, which led to his resignation. During the process he was temporarily replaced by Luis Gómez Montejano. At first he suggested that he would run for those elections, but ultimately he did not. The chosen one would be Ramón Calderón.