Benaiges: Someone on the board would have to change for Barça return
The former La Masia coordinator saw a promise of a return to Barcelona fall through
Albert Benaiges, the former coordinator of Barcelona’s academy, regrets not having returned to the club, despite the fact Sandro Rosell, when still president, promised he could come back.
Interviewed on Catalunya Radio, Benaiges said that “for the moment there is no opportunity to return because someone on the board would have to change, but they’re things you can’t say.”
He continued: “[President Josep Maria] Bartomeu’s treatment towards me has been exceptional, I have no complaints, but not everyone is in agreement: it would be difficult to return now.
“Rosell promised me that I could return to the club, but a couple of weeks later he resigned. After there was someone that opposed it and the reality is the club couldn’t complete that promise.
“It hurt, but things have gone well since, both in Dubai and in Mexico and now in the Dominican Republic.”
Benaiges left Barça in 2011 and as he said is currently in the Dominican Republic, where he is sporting director of Cibao FC and has been for two years.
Of the team he now works for, runners-up in their national league, he says that “in Spain they would be in Segunda B [third division]” and adds that he’s trying to install the Barça way of playing after a spell with Chivas in Mexico.
