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Sanz’s Figo factor
MADRID. July 14 (Reuters/Internet): Lorenzo
Sanz. Real Madrid president and head of the G-14
lobbying group of clubs, will find out early on Monday if he still has a role in Spanish and European soccer when a bitter and at times bizarre presidential race at the club is finally decided.
The battle for the top job at Real Madrid's "casa blanca" has been becoming increasingly nasty, as Sanz and his challenger Florentino Perez Jostle for the favour of the 50.000 or
so club members who will vote on Sunday.
The two men. both 53-year-olds who made their respective fortunes in the construction industry. have traded accusations of mis-management, naivety, vanity and even treachery.
But while the war of words has been a predictable enough sideshow, the rivalry has also thrown up one of the most controversial transfer sagas in recent times, as the Barcelona forward Luis Figo has become the hottest topic in Spanish sport.
Sanz, who has been in charge at the Spanish giants for the last four seasons, went into his campaign for re-election with every confidence after presiding over two European Cup wins In the past three years. .
That is quite some achievement for a club who waited 32 years to add to their haul of six titles won in their golden age from 1956 to 1966.
Indeed, so secure was Sanz thought to be in his position that several newspapers speculated that he would be without a challenger for the election on Sunday, wlch was called In the Immediate aftermath of that triumphant 3-0 victory over Valencia In the Champions League final in Paris. But Sanz's dream of leading
Real Into their centenary year In 2002 is in danger of being unrealised in the face of a concerted challenge from Florentino Perez.
Perez, whose chances of winning Just a week ago were thought to be somewhere between slim and none, Ignited the campaign with the astonishing claim that he had already agreed a deal to bring In IMringiiese International Figo Irani Barcelona for a cool dollars 57 million.
Figo has denied the story.
insisting he will be at the Nou
Camp on July 24 to begin pre-season training, but Perez is sticking to his words.
He believes he has a deal whereby if Figo does not Join Real following a Perez victory the player will have to indemnify the club to the tune of dollars 28.15 million.
"You can see how sure 1 am that Figo will sign by the fact that if he doesn't come, and I am elected. I will pay the seasonticket costs of all Real members out of my own pocket," Perez promised this week.
At a conservative estimate, that would cost him around dollars 8.5 million if his deal is not quite as watertight as he imagines.
There have also been leaked reports of a deal to bring in Zinedine Zidane, although Perez himself has perhaps wisely made no promises on
LUIS FIGO
that score.
The Sanz campaign, rattled by a story that has had Real fans drooling over the two best players from Euro 2000 wearing white next season, has been scathing In its criticism of the Perez plans.
Sanz's vice-president Juan Onieva at first hinted that the mega-bucks deal to bring Figo to a club alrradv betwren dollars IIO million and dollars 247 million In debt -- depending on whose figures vou believe -would lead to Perez taking pci-sonal ownership of Real Madrid
Sanz added: "First It was Luis Figo, then It was Zinedine
Zidane and I suppose now it'll be Claudia Schiffer who's signing for us."
After laughing off the signing, Sanz decidecf to up the ante and angrily started displaying a video of Figo celebrating a Barca title win by singing a clearly anti-Real Madrid song.
When that appeared to have little effect on the prevailing view that Figo would be a great signing for Real. Sanz started to play Perez at his own game.
The incumbent president announced on Thursday a deal to bring in Real Mallorca striker Diego Tristan for 3.000 million pesetas (dollars 16.89 million).
Those members face an interesting choice on Sunday -■ continue to support the man who has brought them two European Cups or back a figure who believes he can bring them Figo and in the process deal another blow to their arch-rivals from Catalunya.