Albert Benaiges, denounced for sexual abuse and humiliation of minors after an investigation by the newspaper Ara when he was a professor at the Escola Barcelona in Les Corts, returned in April to FC Barcelona as coordinator of grassroots football more than 10 years after leaving when he was in charge of the Barça School. In January 2011 he ended 19 years at the Barça club divided into two stages. In the latter he was as the right hand of José Ramón Alexanko, director of the quarry until Sandro Rosell He won the 2010 elections. In July of that year, a meeting took place between the new president, the then vice president. Josep Maria Bartomeu, the manager responsible for grassroots football, Jordi Mestre, Andoni Zubizarreta as a sports director, and Pep Guardiola Y Tito vilanova, first and second coach of the first team. The consensual decision was to dispense with Alexanko Y Benaiges, which was relegated to the FCB School. William Love was appointed director of formative football, with Albert Puig, who was a coach becoming the coordinator. Five months later, the Al-Wasl de Dubai tempted Benaiges. The summer of 2014 he passed to Chivas but in October he was fired and offered to return to Barça on several occasions before the refusal of Bartomeu and landed first on the Cibao from Dominican Republic (2015-18) and then in the Vissel Kobe (2019-21).
Laporta snatched it from Font
Benaiges was one of the grassroots football experts on the technical organization chart of Victor Font, candidate for the elections of Barça, as director of quarry with Joan Vila. In the same scheme that was presented on December 30, 2020, it appeared Xavi Hernandez as general manager and Jordi Cruyff as a sports director. They are both already in the club now with Joan Laporta. On February 25, Benaiges appeared in the presentation of the project of Laporta. Font exploded: ”A Benaiges They have pressured him, either you are with me or you are against me, but you have to be in the photo. Yesterday he called us very affected and dismayed. We told him not to suffer, to go to the presentation and that when we win we will count on him ”. After imposing Laporta at the polls, he incorporated him into the grassroots football structure.
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