The former UE Llagostera, which last year competed in Palamós under the name UE Costa Brava, is living its last days in the Girona region. The club’s largest shareholders, the Alsina-Tarragó family, are finalizing the sale to a group of businessmen in Badalona, which, if all goes well, will be the new home of the entity from this season. This group has already assumed the debt of about 42,000 euros with the staff of last season to avoid the administrative decline and has now reached an agreement with Alsina and Tarragó to buy most of the shares. In this way, the Costa Brava will land in Badalona and compete in the Second Federation with a name that is yet to be defined, while the current Badalona will compete in the Third Federation, having gone down last season. The short-term idea – because now it’s too late federally – is to merge the two sports corporations into one. The new Badalona club, in principle, will be coached by Oriol Alsina, who would also be in charge of sports. Of course, it will do so detached from any shareholding commitment and have nothing to do with the owners.
All this will leave the Girona region without one of the benchmarks of the last decade. The Costa Brava will disappear definitively from the demarcation and will be swallowed by the Badalona. The Barcelona club will report its plans to its shareholders at an assembly this evening.
It should be remembered that at the end of last year the Costa Brava announced that the Barcelona businessman Carlos Sánchez would become the club’s largest shareholder. Sanchez injected money into the club and even did technical work on the bench alongside Oscar Alvarez. However, the purchase was never fully formalized.
