Today Girona football has definitively lost one of the most legendary clubs in the demarcation. The EU Lgosteracurrently known as UE Costa Brava, he has written the last chapter of a story that has lasted 78 years and which has celebrated great feats such as the historic promotion to Second Division A in 2014. The extraordinary general meeting of the Costa Brava that took place at the Llagostera pavilion, with Oriol Alsina and Isabel Tarragó as the largest shareholders, served to approve the change of address social at the Municipal Stadium of Badalona, the name change of the Girona entity by CF Badalona Futur SAD and, at the same time, the dismissal of the board of directors with the consequent appointment of a new one who is made up of a group of Badalonian shareholders to whom the club has been transferred. In this way, the Alsina-Tarragó family completely disassociates themselves from it and puts an end to the Girona club that was founded in 1944.
“I am staying with the good people who have helped us and collaborated all this time. I only have eternal gratitude”, explains the former president of Llagostera-Costa Brava, Isabel Tarragó. Despite the fact that it was only a formality, because the agreement had been closed for days, Tarragó was one of the protagonists of the event attended by the lawyer and former candidate in the last Barça elections , Toni Freixa, who has acted as an intermediary in the transfer and has become CEO and shareholder of Badalona Futur; another of the shareholders; and a member of the defunct Girona entity. “We came from a very complicated season and it’s the only solution we found so that everyone could end up getting what they were entitled to”, comments Tarragó who is “sorry” how it all ended: “It’s been a few years of presidency (he acceded to it in 2008) and the last day has arrived. I’ve always said I would do it as long as I was having fun and enjoying it, but this year that wasn’t the case. A very nice stage has come to an end.”
From Llagostera to Badalona
The decline of the historic Llagostera was inevitable due to the last season. Last summer, the Girona club changed its name to Costa Brava following promotion to the First Federation and the move to the Palamós-Costa Brava stadium, but the non-arrival of the income expected by the Federation meant that the club’s largest shareholders, Alsina and Tarragó, tried to transfer the entity to the Barcelona businessman Carlos Sánchez without the sale being finalized. The financial problems, with a debt of more than 40,000 euros to the staff, triggered, this time, the transfer of the entity, which had been relegated to the Second Federation, to some entrepreneurs from Badalona to guarantee its continuity despite the fact that this meant leaving the Girona counties.
Now a new stage opens in which Alsina will lead Badalona Future in the Second Federation and Tarragó will park the football. “I will be another fan”, he concludes.
