Sandro Rosell

Alexandre Rosell i Feliu ( born March 6, 1964 in Barcelona ), known as Sandro Rosell, is an entrepreneur in the field of sports, especially football, and until the beginning of 2014 president of FC Barcelona.

Career

Rosell is a graduate of ESADE, a Spanish private high school where he graduated with a MBA degree. At the beginning of his business career, he worked in the marketing department for the 1992 Summer Olympics and for Nike.

Rosell supported in 2003 the candidacy of Joan Laporta, President of FC Barcelona wanted to be. Laporta won with an overwhelming majority. His campaign promise was the obligation of David Beckham. These led Rosell as vice president of sports negotiations. Beckham but has preferred to move to arch-rivals Real Madrid. Barcelona instead undertook the emerging Brazilian player Ronaldinho from Paris SG.

In 2005, Rosell resigned as vice president of FC Barcelona - despite winning the Spanish Championship in the same year. He criticized the " lack of independence, transparency and democracy " and called Laporta as the problem.

When Barça won the Champions League in 2006, he scored his just-released book Benvingut al món real ( Welcome to the Real World), in which he indirectly Joan Laporta criticized for attention. In the presidential election, he would have to compete against Laporta, but ultimately abandoned it. On 13 June 2010 he joined the election as President of FC Barcelona, with the motto "We are Barça " and won with 61.35 percent of the vote. None of his 38 predecessors had received more votes. He thus replaced from the July 1, 2010 Joan Laporta, who could not be re-elected after two terms of office.

In January 2014 reported the newspaper El Mundo, for the transfer of the player Neymar from Santos had been paid considerably more than the officially stated 57.1 million euros. On January 22, 2014 investigations were initiated for embezzlement against Rosell. A day later, he resigned as president of FC Barcelona, lest " the reputation of the club is damaged by unwarranted attacks ". The vacant post took over Vice President Josep Maria Bartomeu.

Others

Rosell was also active as a football player, but only for unterklassige teams like the then Segunda División B club - CE l' Hospitalet.