Pedro Fernández requests the City of Seville “urgent help for Betis Basketball and the Aro Foundation not to disappear”

In an extensive letter transferred to Seville City Council And, specifically, to the mayor, José Luis Sanzthe inherited group, owner of the Real Betis Basketball, He asks the Hispanic Consistory “urgent and necessary for the Club and the Aro Foundation not to disappear.” In the document, which has had ABC access in Seville, the president of the Verdiblanco Club, Pedro Fernández, detailed how the entity’s purchase process was, The economic numbers of the project, its social and sports objectives And why inherited chose the city of Seville for landing. It also exposes the reasons that lead him to request “the accompaniment of the City Council, the Diputación and the Junta de Andalucía».

In this regard, he acknowledges that «the arrival of the inherited group to lead the project that had led Betis until that moment has been precipitated by the times and the urgency in the control To avoid the disappearance of the project and keep a historic club in dominant positions of Spanish basketball and, if you can, of the European ». In line, Pedro Fernández admits that “for the group inherits the 100% of the project, it becomes unfeasible (unfortunately), not wanting to hide that no one forced us to collect it,” he says.

«By warning certain deficiencies in the bureaucratic states of the club and the foundation, we have observed the difficulties in accessing public financing. So we offered within the framework of legality, and understanding that the project was and is an excellent project for the city of Seville, request your help through the acquisition of the only immobilized the club And that he currently enjoys and is installed in the San Pablo Pavilion, ”explains President Verdiblanco, appealing to the City of Seville.

Inherited’s offer

What he proposes Inheritwith the purpose of obtaining financing, it is the sale to the City of Seville of the material of which it owns in the pavilion and that is used by the rest of clubs with which it lives in San Pablo. A inventory of which the gym apparatus, the markers of the walls, the baskets, the cube-shaped ceiling marker, the VIP area, the curtains of the top of the stands to avoid the entry of light or the u-televisive .

«The sale of this immobilized -continues the letter -, which I believe with all the humility is positive for the owner of the pavilion and that It would give us air to finish the project, it would not be a money delivered thoroughlysince it is incorporated into the City Council inventory making the use that it wants without having to request the club its use, ”says Pedro Fernández, who makes a last confession and request:« With the humility that has not characterized me until the moment, I strongly beg you to take into account this offerwhich is nothing more than the sincere and enthusiastic request to have them as partners in the project and request urgent and necessary help so that the club and the foundation do not disappear ».

He Inherited groupas remembered in the writing, Betis Basketball appeared in the life of Real Last summer, being Vox Populi who in Benito Villamarín were willing to sell the section to a new investor in the absence of aid and the impossibility of maintaining it financially. For their acquisition they negotiated the Crespo brotherswhich finally founded the Insolac Caja 87, and it was the inherited group that took the property of the Sevillian basketball club, which Betis rescued from the disappearance in 2016 with the help of the bank that was its previous owner.

Inherited specifies that, «together with the acquisition of this historic club, the ARO Foundation was acquired, which was previously the Cajasol Foundation, in charge of the development of twelve quarry equipment (including three in national competition and one in Third Feb), and the sponsorship of the Seville female team (refers to the Women’s Gardnstore Sevilla) and the Betis Mirazul wheelchair, as well as the 118 basketball schools distributed by Seville Capital and his province ».

Liquidated debts and budgets

As for the sales process, it is detailed that «both the club and the foundation are transferred with Some debts in balance of 8,354,325 euros which have been totally liquidated by the inherited group for continuity (7 million for condemning football and 1,354,000 assumed by Grupo inhero) ». The document also exposes the budgets that the entity manages this season. In this sense, it gives the first team of 3,450,000 euros; to the Aro Foundation, of 700,000 euros for the twelve quarry teams; Already schools, “for the acquisition of sports and coaches, 820,000 euros.”

Inherits, on the other hand, figure in 2,000 your subscribers “And a growing assistance of 3,900 people in each party.” It also maintains a 21 workers in staff, having incorporated five peoplehas 29 jobs in the sports squad and holds the rental of 17 homes in Seville, aimed at the players and employees of the first team.

Aid to other clubs and quarry

In addition, it emphasizes that he has given “help and collaboration to the other basketball clubs of the city”, involving “directly in the aid to women with the direct sponsorship of Sevilla female and the only wheelchair team in the provinceand yielding the facilities that the club fixes and updates for the development of basketball in San Pablo ». The sporting objective of the project is to “return the team to the highest national competition and to compete in Europe,” he emphasizes, putting in value that Real Betis Basketball is The most often on television team in the category “So far from the league with an average assistance of 3,000 people.”

The Aro Foundation has 12 teams, 232 childrena team in Third Feb, two internationals convened with their national teams, seven with the Andalusian, as well as 14 coaches, a doctor and two physiotherapists. Likewise, 16 rooms are provided with Sevillian residences during the 10 months of the season to scholarship players and are not Sevillians. “The minors outside the home are assigned a tutor (there are eight in total) to accompany them in the day to day,” specifies inherited, which in schools “Equipment gives a total of 1,628 children from all over the province of Seville and 18 coaches».

In this way, the group entails the work that is carried out at a sports and social level that, as it calculates, directly involves “more than more than 11,000 people in Seville Among employees, subscribers, canteranos, schoolchildren, fans and even against fans ».