The Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, will be the presenter of the president of the CSD
MADRID, 22 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Franco, will take stock of his mandate and a diagnosis of the state of Spanish sport this Thursday (10:00 a.m.) during his participation in the Europa Press Sports Breakfasts, an event that will be held at the Meeting Place Castellana Auditorium in Madrid.
The Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, will be the presenter of the president of the CSD. The event, sponsored by DAZN, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, Repsol and UnicajaBanco, will also be attended by the presidents of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blanco, and of the Paralympic Committee (CPE), Miguel Carballeda, and those of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, the ACB, Antonio Martín, and, among others, from the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales.
Likewise, the former Secretaries of State for Sport Jaime Lissavetzky, Miguel Cardenal and Irene Lozano, the president of the Spanish Sports Association (ADESP), José Hidalgo, and presidents of numerous Spanish sports federations such as Jorge Garbajosa (FEB) and Francisco Blazquez (RFEBM).
This forum is the sixth of the fourteenth season of EP’s ‘Sports Breakfasts’, after the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, inaugurated it in mid-July last shortly after Spain was a semifinalist in the 2020 Euro Cup, and the president of the CPE, Miguel Carballeda, shared the success of the Paralympic athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Subsequently, the president of the RFEBM, Francisco Blázquez, reviewed the present and future of national handball and the challenge of organizing the first Women’s World Cup in Spain, and at the end of last May, the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, presented the draft LaLiga Impulso, warned of the threat of the ‘club-state’ such as PSG and advised FC Barcelona to “fill the pantry” to face signings such as that of Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski.
And the women’s national soccer coach, Jorge Vilda, the internationals Alexia Putellas, elected the Golden Ball and FIFA’s The Best Award as the best soccer player in the world in 2021, Patri Guijarro and Irene Paredes shared their expectations before the European Championship in England this July.
In previous courses, Jorge Vilda himself and the internationals Amanda Sampedro, Mariona Caldentey and Silvia Meseguer spoke about their participation before traveling to the World Cup in France. Subsequently, under the title ‘Motor, with ‘M’ for women’, the riders took part: Ana Carrasco, the first woman world champion in Supersport 300; Sara García, casualty world champion; Tatiana Calderón, the first woman to participate in Formula 2, and Marta García, the only Spanish driver in the WSeries.
The president of the CPE, Miguel Carballeda; Teresa Perales, the Spanish athlete with the most medals (27) at the Paralympic Games and the 2021 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports; the athlete Gerard Descarrega, Paralympic, world and European champion in 400 meters; and the cyclist Ricardo Ten, world champion in track and road and bronze in Tokyo, offered an x-ray of Paralympic sport before the initial postponement of Tokyo 2020 due to the pandemic.
Under the title, ‘Repsol, 50 years of support and triumphs in motor sport’, Carlos Sainz, two-time world rally champion and three-time Dakar champion and 2019 Princess of Asturias Award for Sports; Jorge Martínez ‘Aspar’, quadruple motorcycling world champion and named ‘Legend of MotoGP’; and Toni Bou, thirty times world trial champion, analyzed the causes that have placed Spain as a world power in motorcycling and motor racing.
The president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Winter Sports (RFEDI), May Peus; The head of Women and Snow of the RFEDI, Paula Fernández-Ochoa, the rider Regino Hernández, bronze in the PyeongChang 2018 Games, and the Olympic skier Juan del Campo spoke about the legacy of Blanca Fernández-Ochoa.
And the general manager of the Movistar Team, Eusebio Unzué, former cyclists Pedro ‘Perico’ Delgado, Ángel Arroyo and Pablo Lastras and former road cycling world champion Alejandro Valverde reviewed the 40 years of success ‘From Reynolds to Movistar’, whose riders they had added 930 victories, and seven Tours, four Giros, four Vueltas a España and four World Championships.
MAIN PLAYERS IN NATIONAL SPORTS
In previous campaigns, the main protagonists of national and international sport have paraded through the ‘Sports Breakfasts’, as is the case of directors of clubs, sports organizations and entities, and athletes and former athletes from multiple disciplines.
Among them, the first president of the CSD, María José Rienda, her predecessors Jaime Lissavetzky, Albert Soler, José Ramón Lete and Miguel Cardenal, and the predecessors, Irene Lozano and José Manuel Franco; the presidents of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, of the AFE, David Aganzo, of the ACB, Antonio Martín, and of the FEB, Jorge Garbajosa.
Likewise, the president of the Board of Directors of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario; the one from Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, and the now president of FC Barcelona, Joan Laporta, and the former Real Madrid player Ramón Calderón, the former national soccer coach Vicente del Bosque and the former Liverpool and Real Madrid coach Rafa Benítez.
Presidents of national federations occupied this sporting forum, the then president of the Sports Association (AD) Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, the Olympic champions Lydia Valentín and Carolina Marín; the riders Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Maverick Viñales, Álex Crivillé, and the ’12+1′ times world champion Ángel Nieto; Marc Coma and Stephane Peterhansel, ‘Monsieur Dakar’; the swimmers Rafa Muñoz, Aschwin Wildeboer and Mireia Belmonte, the ‘synchro’ swimmers Ona Carbonell and Raquel Corral, and the golfer Miguel Ángel Jiménez.
Likewise, the General Manager of MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), Pedro Campos, the skipper of the Spanish challenge, Xabi Fernández, and the crew Támara Echegoyen, the first Spaniard in the history of the regatta, and Joan Vila, considered the best sailor in the world; and the world champion coaches José Vicente ‘Pepu’ Hernández, Paco Antequera and Javier Lozano, president of the National Futsal League (LNFS).
There was no lack of former cyclists Miguel Indurain, five-time Tour champion; Alberto Contador, double winner of Giro and Tour and triple champion of La Vuelta; Joaquim ‘Purito’ Rodriguez; and the best Spanish athlete and basketball player of all time, Fermín Cacho and Amaya Valdemoro.
The former mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and the former CEOs of the Madrid 2016 and Madrid 2020 Olympic bids, Mercedes Coghen and Víctor Sánchez, analyzed the options of the Spanish capital project to host the second Games in the country.
INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE: IOC, NBA AND JJOO
Representatives of international organizations were also at the ‘breakfasts’ such as the then vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs; former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Ambassador Lord Sebastian Coe, current President of World Athletics, former IAAF; the former Ambassador of the United Kingdom in Spain Giles Paxman; former Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) General Manager Knut Frostad, and former ASO Deputy General Manager Yann Le Moenner.
In addition, the Extraordinary Secretary of Security for Major Events in Brazil, Andrei Augusto Passos, the Executive Director of the Euroleague, Jordi Bertomeu, the French Ambassador to Spain, Yves Saint-Geours, and the NBA Vice President for EMEA, Jesús Bueno, appear on the list of participants.