The president and owner of the inherited Betis, Pedro Fernández, said Thursday that the team, recently promoted to the Endesa League, has “99 percent chance of playing next season at ACB”, after this agency has granted a 15 -day extension to complete the required documentation.
“There are debts, but none that can prevent the ACB from giving the documentation presented good,” said the CEO of the Cuptel Grupo inherited in an act held to capture the support of entrepreneurs to the Sevillian club project, the former Caja San Fernando, which will change the denomination to give preeminence to the name of the city.
The leader was optimistic about the registration of the team in the ACB, indicated that they have a closed budget of about 5 million euros and appealed to the entrepreneurs present to bet on the club project and put the name of their signature in the team.
In this sense, Fernández commented that “this year the team changes the name, unfortunately, but the team belongs to Seville and this will be called”, while stressing that “behind or in front” wants to “be named a name”, in reference to the bet that claims by a sponsor.
“I understand that the name change is positive. The city is called Seville. I am and I seem very accelerated in my conclusions, but he wins, wins. And who is not, to fight to win. This place is from Seville and here it will stay,” he said.
On the option to sell the square to Granada or Jaén, he insisted that “Seville is going to play in ACB because he has won it on the track, and we will win the League,” and added: “This is Seville, the capital of Andalusia, not Granada, or Jaén …, and the institutions have to help, but in front of 'Seville', when we play against Real Madrid or Barcelona, I want the team to have a name.”
In the event that the inherited Betis cannot register, the CB Granada would maintain the category, descended as a penultimate classified from the last Endesa League and whose leaders have already announced that the planning for the next campaign is paralyzed in the face of the hunting of remaining in the ACB.
The inherited group bought 99.9 percent of the social capital of the Hispanic club last summer, although the Betic Entity maintains with it “a sponsorship contract for five years”, until 2029.
This was required in June Fuentes del Betis, which, in relation to that change of name of the team, also indicated that there is that agreement, but that their “desire has always been to help that there is professional basketball in the city”, so “if the departure of the Betis brand facilitates the viability” of the entity, the Verdiblanco Club will not be “the obstacle.”
