What will remember Aitor Elizegi’s mandate at Athletic?

Aitor Elizegi’s term as president of Athletic is dated. The end of his stage will come in Ibaigane, as officially confirmed yesterday afternoon, on June 24, I insisted, that when the next election will be held, if anything, of course, it will have all the appearance.

When he announced months ago that he was not going to stand for re-election, I must admit that I did not exclude that he would change course. No, he already fired it, I know. But of course, considering what happened in the election during his time he said he was running, then he wasn’t and finally he who, alas, shouldn’t be ruled out. But now he understands that his time at Athletic as president is over.

What will be remembered of Elizegi’s stint as Athletic president? The first thing that came to me was that he would be the president who would have to deal with a historic event and who would go beyond sport, like the COVID pandemic. Life has changed us, football has changed. The way the club was run, without an audience, and with all the consequences it required, he and his board had to deal with from absolute ignorance. A beautiful brown.

As has happened with other teams in the world, so has Athletic. The famous grandstand will also go to the memory of Santutxu. His positive obsession will see the light in the seasons to come. In the second vote, but he promoted one of his workhorses.

Rules, Cup finals …

The reform of the laws to be carried out on Monday the 23rd, we will see what is left. The Cup final against Real. He didn’t play it, of course, and it wasn’t his fault the defeat, of course. But the truth is that thinking about that appointment before the Sheriff and Elizegi’s figure enters the mind. The matter of relatives and others marked that appointment a lot beyond, of course they are Oyarzabal’s goal and Marcelino’s image.

In sport, and at the expense of what will happen in the last two days, the goal of returning to compete in Europe has not yet been fully achieved. And then what happened in Granada was like a bell and it was over. Today’s victory for Rayo against Villarreal, yes, can give hope to the rojiblancos.

He had to face dismissal from a coach he didn’t put on, but he renewed. She chose Iraia Iturregi on the bench of the women’s first team and to change she even had to replace the coach of Bilbao Athletic because the subsidiary is far from her best version. And hopefully no last minute scares. Susaeta or Llorente are other surnames that marked the sports side of Elizegi’s command.

One of the main characteristics of this president, no doubt, is closeness. A normal man, another fan known, or at least, tried to listen to the partner wherever he was. Her speech, her content, can be debated because she likes the colors, but the close point that Elizegi has with and for the members is a positive aspect left by the one who became the 32nd president in the history of club.

85 votes made a difference in the elections, 85 votes also felt the social fracture that Aitor Elizegi had to endure, I think is unfair. May it never happen again to the next president. It won’t matter another Thursday.