With more than 25,000 spectators in the stadium Jose Rico PerezIntercity raised more than 800,000 euros in ticket sales for the tie they played this Wednesday against Barcelona (3-4), as confirmed Salvador Martipresident of the Alicante club.
In statements to EFE, Salvador Marti pointed out that “it will be around 800,000 euros”, a box that exceeded the expectations of Intercity because “we thought we would reach 10,000 or 15,000 viewers and in the end there were about 25,000, so it has been a resounding success.”
This economic injection, to which other concepts for television and advertising rights can be added, has prompted the president of Intercity to be very satisfied with the public response to this cup event.
“The city of Alicante I like elite football and we enjoyed a great party in this game against Barça. I think we put on a great show,” he added.
The projection and repercussion that the Intercitythe first Spanish sports club listed on the Stock Exchange, after this match against Barcelona confirms the growth of a young team founded in 2017.
“We are making a way. We have been here for six seasons and we are very happy and proud of what we do. It will not stop here, we continue to take steps to put Intercity on the map”, he emphasized Salvador Marti in EFE.
In how he lived the match between Intercity and Barça in the box of the José Rico Pérez stadium, Marti He acknowledged that “I’m still euphoric and I’ve never felt like this after losing a game, but there are many ways to lose and doing it this way against a football giant like Barcelona is to feel very proud of our team.” In this way, Salvador Marti He also admitted that in the box he tried to hide me, “but it was very difficult for me after coming from behind Barça three times because these things rarely happen in life”, he concluded.
However, the media repercussion that the party Intercity played this Wednesday with Barcelona in the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey (3-4) had almost no impact on the following session of the stock market.
The day of January 5 in Growth of BME was closed for Intercity, the first Spanish sports club listed on the Stock Market, with a negative balance of 1.5 percent, which puts the value of each share of Alicante SAD at 0.38 euros, so that the annual income in the first five days of The 2023 was at -7.11 percent.
Surprisingly, Intercity’s biggest sporting achievement in 2022, promotion to First RFEF last May, it also had no upward effect on the stock market. Quite the opposite. In the month of June, the significant decline in the Stock Market worsened, reaching November with a historic minimum price of 0.09 euros per share.
In December, when Intercity deteriorated at the sporting level since it fell to the relegation positions in the First RFEF, the trend in the stock market rose with a rebound that allowed the Alicante club to put the value of each share at 0.42 euros, the price at which the year 2022 closed.
All this shows that Intercity’s sporting trajectory has little or no influence on Stock Market trends when the data of the last weeks or months is compared.
Source: La Verdad
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