Ex-Real Madrid President on how the club works & Super League
The Athletic FC Podcast
The Athletic
4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2021
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Host Mark Chapman and The Athletic's football news reporter Matt Slater are joined by former Real Madrid President Ramon Calderon to get his perspective on the how the Super League proposal was handled by his successor Florentino Perez and to get his unique insight on how to lead an iconic football super power.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:08.3 | Hello, I'm Mark Chapman. |
| 0:09.6 | Welcome to the Business of Sport podcast on The Athletic. |
| 0:13.0 | Coming up today, after apologies and new turns from English clubs involved in the collapse of the Super League proposal, |
| 0:19.0 | we'll look at Spain, where the reaction from its two biggest |
| 0:21.7 | clubs has been one of defiance, especially from Florentino Perez, Real Madrid president, |
| 0:27.4 | and one of the driving forces of the breakaway plans. We're joined today by Ramon Calderon, |
| 0:33.2 | a Spanish lawyer and, of course, a former president of Real Madrid. |
| 0:38.0 | This is the business of sport from the athletic. |
| 0:43.5 | So a slightly less dramatic week in England this week |
| 0:46.2 | because all of the English clubs have dropped out of the Super League proposals. |
| 0:50.5 | But it's a slightly different picture in Spain. |
| 0:54.0 | The whole of this pod is looking at the European Super League from the Real Madrid perspective. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm delighted to say that our guest is Ramon Calderon, who was president of Real from 2006 to 2009. |
| 1:09.0 | And let's start Ramon with just an overview of how the club works. |
| 1:15.0 | Real Madrid is in Spain, as in the rest of the world, it's a legend. |
| 1:19.7 | We've managed to get things that nobody has in this world that has so many fans around the world. |
| 1:29.7 | It's a very special institution. |
| 1:32.9 | As you know, we are not a company. |
| 1:34.2 | We are a non-profit association with 93,000 members. |
| 1:38.8 | That means that we don't have share capital. |
| 1:41.0 | We don't have shareholders. |
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