for example, a supermarket is something Practical. To can broccoli, monobloc batteries, and bath oil in one place to buy, that is, of course, pleasant. Very glamorous, but it is not. It’s no wonder that Juan Roig, owner of the largest supermarket chain in Spain and one of the richest people in the country, yet another field of activity has to search in: Sport. For over 30 years, he is the donor, in the case of Valencia BC, the opponent of Alba Berlin in the on Tuesday, beginning the final series in the Eurocup.
With his money Roig shaped Valencia to one of the biggest clubs in Spanish Basketball since 1986, the football Department of FC Valencia is cleaved. The Spaniards are with three titles, a record winner of the Eurocups and were able to two years ago by winning the championship of the national dominance of the Teams of Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. Roig creates as owner of the team, not just the cheque book on the table, but with mixed also active in the Management of the Association.
“It is quite similar to the Situation in Bamberg,” says Himar Ojeda, Alba Berlin sports Director and as a Spaniard, a connoisseur of the local basketball scene. Also in Bamberg is Well-being and prosperity of this organization is tied to a strong patron of the arts, entrepreneur Michael Stoschek has shortened in the summer after a disappointing season in the previous series, master of the Budget.
it is Roig in Valencia. He has given his Team only just a state of the art training complex, soon to follow for 192 million euros in a new Arena with 15 000 seats. Roig, therefore, was already in Berlin, to the Arena to look at the Ostbahnhof, as Ojeda reported.
The loose end of the purse in the 69-year-old billionaire, however, helps not only the infrastructure of the club on the jumps, but also in its sporting planning. For years, Valencia is in the core of the team together. Half of the players in the squad playing together for three years or longer. With the now 37-year-old club legend Rafa Martinez, a player in the squad, the stand as early as 2010 when the last final duel between Alba and Valencia on the parquet floor. “It is easier for them because of their budget,” says Ojeda. “You need that simple, if players will be better and you want to keep.”
Up to 1000 Spanish Fans are expected in Berlin
And before the Eurocup finals series, the Valencian Fans of Roigs benefit commitment: The owner of the team, is sponsoring the trip to Berlin; three Charter flights as well as airport transport he has organized for the second final game on Friday night in the Arena at the Ostbahnhof. “He invites all the” jokes Ojeda and adds: “This shows how he wants to win the title – and how rich he is.” Over 700 Tickets have been sold in the meantime, Ojeda expects up to 1,000 Spanish Fans in Berlin. “I hope we get 15 000 people in the Arena,” he says. “Then there are 14 000 against 1000, and then it’s fine.”
At the first away game of Alba in Valencia on Tuesday evening will look a bit different. “La Fonteta”, the current venue of the Spanish club, has about 9000 people, about 8000 of them, however, are already occupied by Valencia’s season ticket holders. This is not in Spain, nothing Unusual: “There’s so much movement,” says Ojeda. “The clubs focus is to sell as many season tickets as possible.”
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at Least 100 seats to the Albanian Fans, according to the Eurocup regulations. And in contrast to the final nine years ago, as the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull sparked Europe-wide flight bans, and the Berlin Fans to the directions on the Bus, forced, should go to the arrival, this time a bit more relaxed. “We all make all the time jokes with Martin Hermannsson,” says Ojeda. The Icelandic Albanian Guard wearing before the game, apparently similar to a lot of responsibility as a patron Roig in Valencia: “He must ensure that his home erupts again a volcano.”
