Eibar is a small town located in the mountains of the Basque Country (northern Spain).
This is where a Fairy tale is emerging which is overshadowing Atletico Madrid’s Title win for first time after 18 years and even the La decima achieved by Real Madrid.
This is a story of a true underdog . Eibar Football club has managed to get promotion to the Spanish La liga for the first time in its history.
Now you might be wondering how this is such a big story. Lets start this fairy tale
The town of Eibar has a population of 27,000 (to compare : the population of bangalore is 4.3 million ).Their home, Ipurua stadium has a maximum capacity of 5,000
The club SD EIBAR were founded in 1940 and in 1944, short of a kit to play in, were lent a full Barcelona kit by the regional federation.
The colours have stuck, and now Barcelona will finally come to town, 70 years later.
They have achived back to back promotions from the third division to the main spanish highway of La Liga.
They have a measly annual budget of €3.5m, the lowest wages paid to any team in Segunda, a capital value of €422,000 and average crowds of 3,000.
And they will be competing with the likes of Real Madrid , Barcelona and atletico Madrid .
Adding another comparison The working capital of the anonymous society of S.D. Eibar is only 400,000 euros – fifty times less than the annual salary of Lionel Messi.
Eibar is the only club in the First division in spain with 0 debt , thats something that needs to be admired in this world where the big teams spend crazy figures
to buy players and have debts the size of the pacific ocean
But in order to comply with the regulations, Eibar must increase their capital over 2,100,000 euros.Sd Eibar is calling upon the people of eibar and other investors to
pump in the money so they can play in the first division . They are sticking to their rules that no one investor can buy shares worth more than 100,00o euros.
They have been given a big boost by the likes of Xabi Alonso and other journalists providing a boost in this campaign . They have been successful in raising the funds and
yes they will be locking horns with the big clubs of spain .
They have started a crowd funding site where you can purchase one share for 50 Euros . Now this is how a football club should run , this is how you get fans for life,
this is what gets the passion of football to greater heights.
Barcelona ,Real Madrid will be travelling to the Iprara stadium this season . Get your tickets soon with the stadium fitting only 5,000 spectators (till they allocate
funds to add more seats)
So there you go a real miracle story in football at an age where teams are spending money to buy them titles and keep them at their zeneath , here we see a team
doing a rags to riches story. A story that needs more admiration , more recognition ,more applause than any achieveemnt in spanish football.
This is the type of achievement that makes any football fan proud of a club .Closing this fairy tale with this thought
The battle between debt-free David against borrowing-on-red-light Goliaths will take place next season in Spain’s Primera División, Will it have an happy ending ,lets wait and watch .
Whatever the result Eibar has set an example and has lit the fire of hope to a lot many clubs that money is not the only thing that can make you a big team and it has shown to the world that the passion for the game called football can still get you places.
