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Will the Chinese soon have Middle Eastern competition in GC? For the first time in Swiss football, Arabs could appear as investors! At Etoile Carouge, the Geneva club’s third-tier Promotion League.
What seems like a late April Fool prank is actually well advanced. Abu Dhabi’s “Game Plan Sports Group” sports business company is set to join the old NLA club. As the sheikh’s representative, event specialist and former player agent Salem Baobaid will become vice president at Carouge.
One million francs for the first year is initially debated as an investment. He should return to the Challenge League, where Geneva last played in 2012. Against Geneva soccer website Proxifoot says Baobaid: “This is a long-term investment. We want to invest enough in the first team to reach the top 5 in the Challenge League in the next two years.
Known help
How did the UAE investor get to Etoile from all places after apparently looking for suitable clubs in other European countries? Through a good acquaintance between Baobaid and the interim president of Carouge, Michael Palma. The duo has been known for years from the environment of international private banking.
Therefore, the Arab entry is linked to one condition: if Etoile elects a new chief at an extraordinary general meeting in the coming years, Palma must be confirmed as president. Otherwise, the plans with the million of the desert are just a mirage!
