Marca is reporting that Ramón Calderón will resign from his position as president of Real Madrid tomorrow following the revelation that he (or his aides) rigged an assembly vote by allowing 200 nonmembers to vote on his budget, which passed by fewer than 50 votes.
I wasn’t going to say anything about this, Marca being Marca and all. But now USA Today is carrying the story, too. And you know a soccer story is solid when the big blue starts trumpeting it.
I’ll miss you, Ramón Calderón. I’ll miss your endless, pointless, unrealizable transfer promises. I’ll miss your crazed media flame wars with Alex Ferguson. I’ll miss your unrelenting public courtship with Cristiano Ronaldo, the legendary CR9. No, actually, I won’t miss that at all.
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by Brian Phillips · January 15, 2009
Did USAToday report on Masal Bugduv?
Btw, does anyone else miss Jesus Gil y Gil (late of Atletico Madrid)? Crooked as hell, but a great character …
Marca is now saying that Calderon has changed his mind. But the board of directors will try and force his hand anyway by threatening to resign en masse and force elections if he doesn’t go (which almost happened at Barca before their season began).
So we’ll see if it’s going to take a mass protest by the Bernabeu when they play Osasuna to end this.
“Ramón Calderón is still clinging to his presidential throne with screams of ‘my precious’ wafting down the Castellana,” as La Liga Loca has it. Should be an interesting afternoon.
The latest from Marca: the board has forced his resignation. The press conference will be at 6PM.