PIQUE ANDORRA | Gerard Piqué, after FC Andorra was banned from playing at the Estadi Nacional: “Thank you for expelling us from the country”

2023-10-07 15:33:32

He Government of Andorra and the football club he presides Gerard Piqué They have entered into a public war that could end with the Principality being left without a team in Second A starting next season.

The Secretary of State for Sports and Youth of Andorra, Alain Cabanesreaffirmed this Saturday that FC Andorra will not be able to play next season in the National Stadiumnot even in a way temporal, while a stadium is being built or while it is just finished build the complex of the Andorran Football Federation (FAF) in Encamp. “We will help mediate or find a place for them so they can start the season properly, but It will not be the National Stadium“, confirmed the Andorran secretary.

The agreement for the use of the National Stadium of Andorra la Vella, which belongs to the Government of Andorra, was signed with a validity of two years. This agreement ends in June 2024 and the idea is to once again have the multipurpose facility. The VPC Andorra, a rugby club from the Principality that has the first men’s and women’s team in the Catalan Honor Division and also the oval sports team, will once again play its matches there. The soccer team also plays its matches, which has not stopped doing so in this facility.

“I know that FC Andorra is doing the efforts relevant and we will give them all the support that we can give them,” said Cabanes, who concluded by emphasizing that “we had a date set with an agreement with the rugby and the FAF and it will be respected.”

These statements have not been liked at all Gerard Piquécurrent president of the Andorran club, which since 1948 has been part of the Spanish league system: “We have invested more than four millions of euros to adapt the National Stadium so that The league let us play and now you throw us out. There are no sports facilities in Andorra with conditions to be able to compete next year. Thank you for expelling us from the country. We have no other solution but to leave and change club name. Congratulations, you have left Andorra no professional football“, the former FC Barcelona player attacked in a publication on X (formerly Twitter).

We have invested more than 4M euros in adapting the National Stadium because @LaLiga let us play and now kick us out. There is no sports facility in Andorra with conditions to be able to compete next year. Thanks for kicking us out of the country. We have no other solution than… https://t.co/XOkAzaxkk5

— Gerard Piqué (@3gerardpique) October 7, 2023

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In December 2018, Gerard Piqué took over the oldest sports club in the country. He settled the existing debt of around 600,000 euros through his company Kosmos Holding. FC Andorra was in the Catalan First Division, it was promoted to the Third Division the first year, but bought a place in the second division B after Reus Deportiu dropped out.

Therefore, he was promoted to the Spanish second division B and after a season in the First RFEF he achieved promotion to Second. This is his second year in professional football and he is ranked 15th.