Laporta and the Bernabéu canvas: “We have set a profile”

In the always charismatic setting of the Moritz factory, in the Ronda de Sant Antoni, in the heart of Barcelona, Joan Laporta presented the management team that will accompany him in the electoral race for the presidency. One by one, Laporta, the top leader of the Barça club between 2003 and 2010, introduced his old and new traveling companions, his management team. The fifteen managers who accompanied him in the long pusta are Rafael Yuste, Antonio Escudero, Alfons Castro, Aureli Mas, Josep Maria Albert, Xavier Barbany, Miquel Camps, Xavier Puig, Joan Solé, Josep-Ignasi Macià, Jordi Llauradó, Josep Cubells, Elena Fort, Juli Giu, Jaume Giró. Five of them, Yuste, Castro, Macià, Cubells and Fort, accompanied him on his first trip as president.

“It is a joy to feel so well accompanied in this candidacy. Estimem Barça it goes beyond titles. It is a feeling and it is soul. And it cannot live without leadership that we believe is exalted. As Armand Carabén said, the key is to think of management as the key element between competing and winning, but knowing that every organization must also play. The translation of the management will be in competing and winning. Here is Barcelona that comes from afar and that is at the service of Barça in one of the most difficult moments in history. We are trying to reverse a difficult situation. It is a complicated situation but I would not say ruinous. We can turn it around. And how will I do it? Working to make leadership work. And working, taking the suitcase and explaining to the world what the club is, what Barça is. With conviction “.

Laporta did not want to enter into Xavi's open letter that leaves Font injured. “I have the utmost respect for the pre-candidates. I have only been president of Barça, I know how to reverse and this situation is similar to that of 2003. Regarding Xavi's statements, you have to ask him. I have not given names and I do not want to destabilize the team. I have been the president of Barça; I know what could destabilize and I don't want to. The famous environment influences. We want to win. And then, some players who play, a technical secretariat. There will be a new methodology at La Masia. It is the moment of investment and leadership. About Xavi, please ask Xavi “.

In addition, Laporta recalled the day he decided to run for the 2020 elections: “The same day the 2015 elections ended. I said it then, in 2015. 'Not surrender.' They were elections conditioned by the triplet. But we already had demonstrated that Barça could function with the Masia, Catalunya, Cruyff, Unicef ​​formula. I feel stronger than in 2003. With experience, with determination “.

He also took stock of what is going on in the pre-campaign: “It is the third week, it is progressing adequately. We have set a profile. We have had a good activity. We have not made mistakes in the first week, nor in the second after the meeting with the confederation of And then, in the third, we visited the different venues in the peñas. We have marked the profile with the message to members and supporters. A message that we want to return self-esteem to Barcelona. Optimism engine “. And regarding the consequences of removing the canvas in Madrid, he said: “The canvas was a great strategy. I found it nice, elegant, a walk in Havana. It is part of the rivalry in the world of Can. It may have a point of irony , subtle, but not sportiness. This brings the great show to life. Without crossing the limits. “