2023-10-11 09:57:23
Mateu Alemany Source (60 years old) doesn’t stop. Just one month after leaving FC Barcelona following the arrival of Deco, the Mallorcan leader is about to sign for the Atlético de Madrid, the fourth club of his career as a football man since he joined Miquel Contestí’s Mallorca at the beginning of the 80s of the last century, when he was only 23 years old.
In the absence of the red and white entity making it official – Alemany has been residing in Madrid for fifteen days -, The Mallorcan arrives at Atlético as football director, the same one he has held in the last three years at Barcelona. He would be in the ranking above the sports director, the Italian Andrea Berta, who is considering leaving the club, and below the CEO Miguel Ángel Gil Marín, with whom he has had a very good friendship for many years.
Cerezo acquires the services of a professional who knows the ins and outs of football like no one else. Discreet, a confirmed bachelor, with a calm character, he almost never loses his temper. Impossible to catch him in a resignation because he measures his words to the millimeter. He has the art of speaking without saying anything, or at least nothing transcendent. Saying the obvious is what it is called. He flees the media spotlight, although due to his multiple positions he has had no choice but to show his face on countless occasions, sometimes to cover a fire, other times for the signing or dismissal of a coach and, also, to announce the next step. transcendental in the history of Mallorca in recent decades, the entry into bankruptcy after carrying a debt of more than 60 million euros.
At Mallorca he was everything: deputy to management, CEO, general director, president and owner. A curriculum that is difficult to find and that has opened many doors for him due to his know-how, his control of the situation and his attempt not to take false steps. Although he has not always emerged successfully from the cumbersome situations that he has had to deal with.
Discreet, a confirmed bachelor, with a calm character, he never loses his temper. Impossible to catch him in a resignation because he measures his words to the millimeter
On August 30, 2000, he was officially named president of Mallorca. Experience the best stage of the club with qualification for the Champions League.
After more than a decade away from football and playing golf all the time, Alemany received the call from Valencia in 2017 to occupy the position of general director. In the little more than two years of his stay in the Turia capital, led by Marcelino García Toral, he returned the club to the Champions League after two seasons flirting with relegation, and won the Copa del Rey, precisely against Barcelona. His first measure was to remove José Ramón Alexanko from the sports management, and the second to sign Marcelino. His mission, which he more than achieved, was to create a new team on and off the field. But his continued disagreements between owner Peter Lim and the duo he formed with Marcelino soured the atmosphere until he was fired seven months before the end of his contract, in November 2019.
Only a year later he ended up at Barcelona. It was Joan Laporta’s first signing on his return to the presidency. He wanted him as the club’s man in relations with LaLiga de Tebas. Until last month. He now plays for Atlético de Madrid, his fourth big project. Few dare to say that he may be the last.
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