AS: Spain friendlies helped Gorka Villar increase revenues by 252%
His profits increased from €250,000 in 2010 to €900,000 in 2013
This coincided with 10 Spain friendlies and the authorities are now investigating if the Villar family benefitted
According to a report in Diario AS, Sport Advisers, the company run by Gorka Villar, the son of the Spanish Football Federation president, increased its revenue to €2.5 million between 2010 and 2013 and its profits increased from €250,000 to around €900,000.
According to AS, this dramatic increase coincided with the ten friendlies played by Spain after winning the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and when the team was at its high point.
In just three years, Spain played ten friendlies and now the Guardia Civil is investigating, at the request of the Anticorruption Prosecutor is investigating whether the Villar benefited from these friendlies and if Angel María Villar paid large amounts to his son’s business.
The Guardia Civil claim that Villar “could have organised matches between Spain and other national teams, resulting in payments for the contracting of services and other commercial relationships that benefitted his son Gorka, a lawyer specialising in sport law, who was also arrested in the operation”.
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