www.elperiodic.ad DIMARTS, 10 DE JULIOL DEL 2018 el Periòdic d’Andorra 15 CONEIXEMENT SOBRE d'Andorra L’ÚS DE LES TECNOLOGIES elelENGLISHTema PeriòdicPeriòdic del EDITION dia NewsW E Dxx 9 BEHIND KOSMOS Fàbregas and Messi, new partners of FC Andorra The internationallity of the two football players The Barça centre-back plans to build a new will provide worldwide projection to the club football stadium and is studying four locations REUTERS / ALBERT GEA EL PERIÒDIC ted to the football club was Pol Balles- ESCALDES-ENGORDANY té, who has gained experience at the @PeriodicAND second division with several teams. eo Messi and Cesc Fàbregas However, an economic agreement will join in the construction wasn’t achieved by both parties and of an FC Andorra with Barça Ratti was finally chosen as the best L DNA. By the end of the year, option, although the difficulties of it became known that Gerard Piqué, leaving Sant Julià, his former team. the FC Barcelona centre-back, had the Thus, the Argentinian player will be intention of buying the team of the defending the goal of Piqué’s new pro- Principality. Since then, there have ject in the next fixtures. been legislative changes, of a legal na- But all these changes were possi- ture and on the team. All thanks to ble as a result of the approval of the the Kosmos investor group, of which Sports Law on 20 December. The Con- Piqué is the founder and president. sell General accepted that the first te- But he is not the only football player ams could become Sports Public Li- behind the purchase of FC Andorra. mited Companies. In this way, the As EL PERIÒDIC was able to find out, admission of foreign capital to the Fàbregas and Messi, are shareholders clubs is allowed and left a clear path of Piqué’s company. for Piqué. The next step was for the Although the role of the two members of FC Andorra to accept the players in the purchase of the club of club making the change of legal na- the Principality is fully symbolic, the- ture, which was validated with no ir appearance on the scene will bring vote against the 29 December in an great international attention to a pro- extraordinary general assembly. At ject that has just begun. The change that moment, the club passed into of the managers and players adds up the hands of several investors among the intention to build a new football which there is Kosmos. stadium in order to play the matches The purchase of FC Andorra by Pi- and train since in recent years they qué has allowed the club to get rid of have encountered problems with la its debt of about 313,000 euros it had. Borda Mateu due to the limitation in The economic injection has allowed the schedules. Although the location the signing of quality players which of the new stadium has not yet been implies progress in the goal of the confirmed, it is known that the cen- new owners: taking the club of the tre-back is studying four possible lo- Principality to Spanish professional cations, among which la Cortinada. Cesc Fàbregas and Leo Messi celebrating a goal at the Camp Nou. football. The injection of Blaugrana blood 33 H into the club started with the signing of former players, Gabri Garcia and main keys Albert Jorquera, as managers of the Principality’s team. In addition, the son of Tito Vilanova, Adrià Vilanova, Consell approves The partners Gabri and Jorquera, The avalanche of became part of the squad along with 1the Sports Law 2validate the SA 3new managers 4signings begins nine more additions: Ferran Tacón, Rubén Bover, Oriol Dot, Claudi Bové, The Consell General passed the Sports On 29 December the extraordinary ge- Next, replacements of the managing team Adrià Vilanova, Ferran Tacón, Rubén Bo- Fede Bessone, Ernest Forgas, Andres Law on Thursday, 20 December. With neral assembly was held among the part- began. Richard Imbernón and Joan Jo- ver, Oriol Dot, Claudi Bové, Fede Besso- Jantus, Joan Cervós and Nico Ratti. this regulation, clubs’ first teams can be- ners of FC Andorra where they approved sep Linares were dismissed while former ne, Ernest Forgas, Andres Jantus, Joan It should be noted that the latest come Sports Public Limited Companies the club becoming an SA, with various in- squad member Gabri Garcia took over the Cervós and Nico Ratti. Ten players were signing of the new goalkeeper, Ratti, (SA) and, therefore, accepting the entry of vestors among which Kosmos, the busi- tricolour squad along with Albert Jorque- added to the team while Joel Martinez, was confirmed in recent hours. Howe- foreign capital into the clubs. In this way, ness group owned by Piqué. The arrival of ra, an ex-goalkeeper who also trained at Miki del Castillo, Miquel Torres, Josep Ba- ver, up to yesterday, the name which Gerard Piqué had a clear path to make these investors entails an economic injec- la Masia. Both had formed a duo in recent lletbo, Roberto Gomes, Roger Nazzaro, was most heard amongst those rela- the purchase of FC Andorra official. tion that allows paying the debt of the club. years and continue their career in Andorra. Aaron Sanchez and Eric de Pablos left. 2 www.elperiodic.ad WEDNESDAY, 9 JANUARY 2019 el Periòdic News FILE TO INVESTIGATE POSSIBLE FRAUDULENT ACTIONS ked about whether they will analyse the legislation of neighbouring coun- ACU opens an investigation into tries, Ferreira stated that his premise is «to focus on what we have in Andor- ra and our casuistry». In this specific case, since France and Spain distin- increases in the price of heating guish between public and private pro- perties, the regulation on the billing CARLOS MONTAÑES of heating works very differently. «For The entity received six now, this distinction does not exist, but I have explained other times that complaints for billing among our long-term goals we have changes of up to €80 demanded the creation of official pro- tection of flats» Ferreira recalled. EL PERIÒDIC ESCALDES-ENGORDANY @PeriodicAND One of the main aims of the entity is to create he Andorran Association of Consumers and Users (ACU) an official protection has decided to open an inves- programme for flats Ttigation into changes in the among other future plans type of heating bill due to complaints received on abusive increases. As sta- ted by the president of the ACU, Llu- Although the association appeared ís Ferreira, «we have received six com- in public for almost a month, its presi- plaints since the beginning of the ye- dent attributed «the lack of knowled- ar and we recently received a new one ge» due the fact that at the moment that could be of the same type». Incre- they have not received too many com- ases reported of up to 70 or 80 euros. plaints. «As regards purchases made In all cases recorded, the rise in pri- during the Christmas holidays, we ha- ce at the end of the month is explai- A woman reading in bed next to a radiator. ve not received any complaints, but it ned by the change in the type of bi- 33 is probably still early» Ferreira said. lling, that is, because it has gone from nants who live in apartments that are ses. «For now, I have not yet found out on, he discovered that the regulation However, complaints on rental prices counting consumption in steps (pas- managed by external companies. All how it is calculated and, if I find out, it allows the expenses of thereception are still present with nearly 100. He sos) to kilocalories, or vice versa. Fer- claims come from centrally heated will be necessary to see if there are dif- to be affected in the tenants. «A practi- also recalled that the ACU has just be- reira wanted to point out that «somet- systems and in which there must be a ferent types of billing which can lead ce of dubious and completely incohe- gun and took the opportunity to an- hing is not right since if the increase is meter box that controls the consump- to confusion» said Ferreira, insisting rent legality» the president of the ACU nounce that the web is already ope- given in very different cases, the chan- tion. «The question is how this calcu- that if they do not get clear water they considered, confident that the inves- rational: www.acuand.com, and they ge is made in one sense or in the ot- lation is done» highlighted Ferreira. will contact with the Government to tigation would allow them to show ot- will soon create a profile on Twitter her». In fact, the president of the ACU ask for explanations on how to set the her irregularities. and Facebook as new communicati- explained that legislation has already EXAMINE AND CONTACT The head of the calculation of heating consumption. on channels. The investigation into begun to read about it in case there ACU said that during/ this week they In any case, the first results of the in- SPECIFIC CASUISTRY From the associ- the change in the billing of heating is some article that stipulates how it will devote a thorough reading of the vestigation will not arrive until the ation they indicated/ that until they adds to those already open on public should be billed and if there is some legislation and that they will contact next week.«When we open a file, we do not have the results of the investi- transport, the protection of minors’ equivalence between steps and kilo- all the people who have attended the always have to go further» said Ferrei- gation they will not decide how they data on social media, banking entiti- calories.