Eric Abidal will return to Barça if Laporta is victorious in summer elections
Joan Laporta, the former president of FC Barcelona and a candidate to return to the post on July 18, presented the team that will work for him if he is elected as president next month. The most significant announcement was that Eric Abidal will be the sporting director if Laporta wins the elections.
"He is one of our heroes for all he that has won and because he has an energy which he transmits to everyone of us in this campaign," Laporta said about the former French internatinal.
As for Abidal, he said that he is "really excited about our project. Barça is more than a club, it is my club and I always said that I wanted to continue here after I retired. I know Joan well and I have a lot of confidence in him and he does in me, too. With [Laporta], when we speak we look each other in the eye and we don't hide anything."
Abidal wants La Masia to "return to producing players like Andres [Iniesta], like [Lionel] Messi, like Xavi and that Barça, which is the socios, share this project, which is for the present and the future, with me."
