Updated:01/07/2021 01:43h
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The very young UD Ibiza, a club founded five years ago (2015), entered through the big door in the history of the Cup when eliminating Celta (5-2) becoming the sixth team in Segunda B (or lower category) capable of scoring five goals against a rival in the First Division. An entity with an ambitious project to place the Balearic island on the professional football map that is led by Amadeo Salvo, the former president of Valencia.
Only a few days after leaving Mestalla, Salvo began to gestate the birth of UD Ibiza during a boat trip through the Mediterranean. Accompanied by his family and a group of friends, the idea came up on the deck to start a club in Ibiza, where a Primera Liga match has never been seen. Said and done. The former president of Valencia paid the debt of 50,000 euros which in 2010 caused the disappearance of UD Ibiza-Eivissa to refound the entity, thus renewing the illusion for football on the island.
Salvo has made a strong financial commitment to lead his team to professional football and has surrounded himself with recognizable faces in the First Division. At the beginning of 2019 he signed as sports director Fernando Soriano, former Zaragoza player, Almería and Osasuna. This season the bet for the bench has been that of Juan Carlos Carcedo, a former footballer who ended up becoming Unai Emery’s eternal assistant. After 14 years as second of the Basque coach in Valencia, Villareal, Sevilla, Spartak Moscow, Arsenal and PSG, the Rioja has made his debut as first coach and life is smiling on him. UD Ibiza remains undefeated in the League and on Tuesday they celebrated Celta’s elimination.
With mind first
The Cup is a nice prize, but Salvo has never hidden his intentions. “With the work, the investment, the right people and knowing how to do things, it can be done. In my mind is getting to First», Has acknowledged in more than one interview. He knows that Ibiza is a brand with enormous international potential and he wants to exploit it, but without losing his mind and his priority has been to create a professional management model in the club. It is bearing fruit, although last season the promotion to Second in the playoff that he played against Cornellá, the executioner of Atlético yesterday, escaped him.
UD Ibiza began its journey in the lowest category of football and in 2018 it made the jump to Second B helped by its president, who paid 500,000 euros to buy a place vacant. The project has not stopped growing and Salvo managed to convince Marco Borriello, a former Italian international, to finish his career on the island, although it only lasted a few months. A signing with which he got a media accolade, but not as shocking as the triumph against the Vigo.
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