Ángel Haro, president of Real Betis, has been in charge of presenting Antonio Cordón as the new sports general manager of Real Betis, a vacant position in the club since Miguel Torrecilla's departure in June 2017, after the arrival of Lorenzo Serra as vice president of sports, who would later assume those functions. Before introducing Cordón, Haro wanted to congratulate all the members of Betis Deportivo for the promotion achieved this Saturday to Segunda B. “Especially to players, coaches, members of the quarry department and its director, Miguel Calzado”.
Immediately afterwards, Haro welcomed Antonio Cordón to the Betico club: “His experience, career and ability make him worthy of being the person in charge of directing the club's sports destinations. After three years, we have the sporting general manager again. It will be the third general direction of the club ”, explained Haro, who assured that“ since the beginning of the talks and contacts there has been a good harmony. Since we introduced him to the project, he liked it. We were delighted with what he told us and since two weeks ago the talks began, it has come to fruition, “said Haro, who wanted to publicly thank José Miguel López Catalán, vice president of the club,” for the emphasis and effort put so that people like Antonio Cordón or Manuel Pellegrini are here today ”.
“You come to a hungry club, with demands that you have to move from the top down, mainly to the players. You have to win games. Going together, working and with humility we will achieve the established objectives ”, explained Ángel Haro, who later assessed the reasons why the figure of the sports director has been absent from the club these last three years:“ At the time that Lorenzo was ( Serra Ferrer) it was understood that this figure was not necessary, we have covered the shortcomings among all and we do understand now that this figure is very natural. Just as we have an executive general manager and a business general manager, we saw the figure of a sports general manager as necessary, ”said Haro.