"We will continue with our values ​​"

Question

"We will continue with our values ​​"

Answer 1

"Dude, thanks for everything you 've done, and we are grateful knows very bad decision because you know you have our support and that of the partners. Was an honor working with you and will survive in our memories forever, "said Josep Maria Bartomeu Floreta (February 6, 1963), to take over as president Sandro Rosell Barcelona. Will the number 40 in the club's history and will be until the June 30, 2016, when the command of the board elected the summer of 2010. "We are strong, and will continue to work for the values ​​that have guided us these years with the enthusiasm and commitment to maintaining the highest sporting, economic and social excellence. We still have goals, " Bartomeu started. "This club is owned by the partners and I will do my utmost to consolidate. We will be very strong on defense and the requirement of respect for our club to the sports, political and legal estates, "warned the man who publicly challenged Laporta in February 2005, the same as always showed his friendship with Rosell and loyalty to him, the manager who started in 2003 as head of the basketball section since 2010 and developed a key work in sports as vice president.

Bartomeu left that meeting after a bizarre chapter following the crisis section section controlling the treble after winning in 2003 (Euroleague, ACB and Copa del Rey). Laporta prompted a series of changes that ended with the dismissal of Svetislav Pesic, coach, and Antonio Maceiras, the CEO, and the hiring of Valero Rivera as a replacement for the latter.

In late February 2005, in the press conference of presentation of Manolo Flores as coach of the basketball team, Bartomeu spoke after President: " We're not here just because, not because of the players or technical, but by the mistakes the board with the decisions you made in September. We modify a structure that worked well when the maximum advised not to touch what works. " Laporta, incredulous, flushed and out of trouble as best he could, but two days later he was removed.

Bartomeu is partner and CEO of ADELTE Group (a company dedicated to the manufacture of gateways ports and airports) and terminal services company EFS. In 2011, he sold 48% of its shares to fund Baning risk capital. A year earlier, the two companies accounted for a consolidated turnover of 27 million euros. Affable man and close disposition, will appear before the media this afternoon after the first board meeting chaired yesterday. The first decision may be to change the spokesman, Toni Freixa.