“We must continue to be excited”

Amadeo Salvo, president of UD Ibiza, spoke this Friday for the microphones of SER Deportivos, on Radio Ibiza, to make a positive balance of the first nine games played by his team in LaLiga SmartBank, despite the last two defeats. He declared that “we must continue to be excited”, despite the overwhelming setback in Cartagena (5-1), but he is confident that the victories will return.

“It was matchday seven when we saw each other in play-off positions. LaLiga SmartBank is like that. We are two points from relegation and three from the ‘play-off’. I think it will be like this all year. That is why it is so exciting and so beautiful, so competitive. It is reality, “said the manager, who hopes that this Sunday the best Ibiza will be seen again, the one from the first eight league days.

Regarding the possibility of reinforcing the workforce in the winter market, he does not know if there will be any movement or not. And it is that in the club they believe that they have “a staff that it is not necessary to reinforce it”, that “it is more than enough to face this season”. But he didn’t rule it out either. “In the end, the coaching staff and the sports management will be the ones to decide. This is no longer a non-professional league where you can make purely sporting decisions. The purely economic ones also come in here. To increase the financial control of our club we will have to increase income or reduce expenses. If someone has to come, which I already told you I doubt, someone has to come. Or, if nobody comes out, you have to increase the income budget that you had, ”Salvo declared.

On the other hand, after closing the subscriber campaign with 3,200 registrations, Salvo said that they will open it “again” in the second round because there are “many demands.” The goal is to get “between 800 and 1,000 more subscribers”, which is what they had “planned from the beginning.” In addition, he added that the social response, both from subscribers and from the business boxes or from the sale of T-shirts, is being very good, which denotes an interest on the part of Ibizan society. “There are twelve or thirteen business boxes, of which there are ten sold. The sale of T-shirts on the island is very large. The number of subscribers today, and who buy tickets, more than 50% is from people who do not reside in the capital. What is perceived in the street is of total identification with a club ”, he pointed out.

He also ruled on the controversy raised by the exclusive agreement for the use of the Can Misses stadium and other municipal facilities, which was denounced in court by the Club Deportivo Ibiza de futbol and the Club Atletisme Pitiús. Salvo stated that UD Ibiza “scrupulously complies with until the last comma of the agreement.”

The manager said that CD Ibiza is playing its matches and trains when it plays at Can Misses-3, where UD Ibiza in the Second Division also trains. “The investment (to install natural grass) has been made by us. Another thing is that the city council would have done it. If we had been absolutely selfish, we would have said: ‘Here we play, let them play at Can Cantó, at Can Misses-2 or wherever.’ We have not been selfish, “he said. He even stated that “from the first minute” his entity has offered dialogue to resolve the discrepancies, despite the movements carried out by CD Ibiza.

Regarding the Pitiús Athletics Club, Regarding the use of the athletic track, which borders the training field, he said that pitchers “are pitching” and “athletes” are enjoying the facility as well. “I see that people run in the morning. Today there was a group of recruitment children, they train in the afternoons, the athletes do their series … They wanted to do series tomorrow, but because of the fungus issue (which is in the training field) they cannot. Before they didn’t run because it was a jungle. Saying that you can’t is not true. No matter how much a lie is repeated, it is still a lie. The Pitiús Athletics Club trains in the afternoons, they train in the mornings, but there are times when you can’t ”, declared the top leader of UD Ibiza.

He also made it clear that his club “has not disrespected anyone, nor will it be,” and the only thing they want is to continue on their way