Bataller: "They are making promotion to ASOBAL very difficult for us"

The newspaper Levante EMV, in its Camp de Morvedre edition, reports statements by the president of Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto regarding the entry fees for promoted teams imposed by the Asobal Association on the teams promoted in this first year of conversion to the newly established Professional League. According to the newspaper, Bataller said that Asobal had unilaterally set the entry fee at slightly more than €90,000—an unusual and excessive figure, especially as it only has to be paid by the two promoted clubs, Viveros Herol Nava and Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto. If the guarantees that Asobal already used to demand are added to that amount, the figure rises to €156,000. And that is without including the other requirements imposed by this transition to professionalism, where, for the moment, the only certainty is the extremely high additional costs, with no guarantee that they will be offset by income reaching the league’s member clubs. This is a high-risk undertaking, and Fertiberia wants solutions from Asobal’s leaders so that it can ultimately take part. The league’s assembly, which will be held on the same day as the competition draw, is emerging as a key moment to ensure that professionalising a sport with such limited resources becomes a winning proposition rather than the grave of Spanish elite handball, already so badly damaged.

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