MADRID, 9 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Association of Spanish Handball Clubs, Servando Revuelta, highlighted ASOBAL’s solvency after “more than 30 years” of experience after having requested this Thursday to the Higher Sports Council (CSD) to become a professional league.
“The main thing is that the unity of the clubs has been shown in thinking the same about what is best for their future. We want to be ambitious and explore the situation of being able to be a professional League and achieve several things. One of them, to have more diffusion as a professional competition and also try to grow as a League and be more competitive at a European level,” Revuelta told Europa Press.
The head of ASOBAL explained the steps to follow after the request issued this Thursday to achieve said professionalization. “The information is collected by the CSD and from there it has to go through two of its own councils within the CSD and see what rating they give us and if we are fit to face it,” he said.
“Not only me, but all the clubs, we are convinced because we have been with a competition and an association that is solvent for more than 30 years and also in the worst years of the pandemic there has not been a single default. And because we consider it that way We believe that these are the steps to follow after having the experience of these years,” he said.
In addition, Servando admitted that “a possibility has been opened after women’s football has achieved it and the ASOBAL handball clubs want to explore” in this regard. “In addition to that they have facilitated that – after a modification – it is no longer necessary for you to be SAD to be able to belong to a professional association”, she recalled.
With this professional League, the president of ASOBAL indicated -as a summary- that the growth would be greater. “We can get more income and with which to provide the clubs with much more money to be able to strengthen our structures and attract players who have had to leave our League”, he valued.
“And from then on we have a lot of work in terms of discussing and improving the product. And we are taking steps little by little, with the new website, the app that will be out shortly. Little by little we are taking steps to get to the day”, concluded Revuelta.