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Punto CeroTutor/Supervisor; Universidad.Departamento
Mora Sesma, Rafael; Universitat Jaume I. Departament de Ciències de la ComunicacióFecha de publicación
2021-06-10Editor
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Punto Cero is an illustrated report related with one of the most undervalued sports in
Spain: handball. We decided to work with this matter due to the reason that Spanish
handball, women's and men's teams, are ... [+]
Punto Cero is an illustrated report related with one of the most undervalued sports in
Spain: handball. We decided to work with this matter due to the reason that Spanish
handball, women's and men's teams, are suffering a pandemic economic issue. This
problem has been in Spain for many years, specifically, since 2008 with the real
estate problem, known as the real estate bubble, causing a tremendous economic
impact in this sport associated with the sponsorship, salaries and budgets of the
clubs and underlining the disappearance of laureated clubs, such as, BM Ciudad
Real or Atletico de Madrid, two of the most iconic teams in Spanish handball.
Nowadays, Spain is one of the biggest powers as a national team in handball. We
are two-time european champions (men) and runner-up in the World Cup (women).
Even though, as the seasons go on, more and more players are deciding to go away
from here, because of the huge economic problems. For that reason, Liga Sacyr
ASOBAL and Liga Guerreras Iberdrola are becoming the biggest talent export
leagues, reducing their own level of these leagues. So, the aim of this report is to
make visible this dramatical situation and to propose or contribute possible solutions
to solve the circumstance that national handball is going through.
Firstly, writing about the main characters of our project are divided into 5 different
scopes related to people who have an essential role in this sport : players, coaches,
executives, economists and journalists. Furthermore, we concluded that we would
have to make various trips in order to interview the best good name people of
handball in Spain. Regarding the area of players, we decided to go to Granollers
(Catalonia, Spain) to interview Antonio Garcia Robledo, BM Granoller’s player,
because of his excellent career with the objective to find out the economic
differences between Liga Sacyr ASOBAL and the major leagues of handball. In his
career stands out honours like Liga Sacyr ASOBAL, Copa del Rey and a gold medal
(World Cup, Spain, 2013), silver (Eurocup, Poland, 2016) and bronze (Eurocup,
Denmark, 2014) with the Spanish national team. Moreover, it highlights the
experiences with Barcelona (Spain), PSG (France), SC Pick Szeged (Hungary), KIF
Copenhague (Denmark) and CSM București (Romania). Another important character
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for us were Lysa Tchaptchet, CB Elche and Spanish national team player, in order
to share her experience as a player of Liga Guerreras Iberdrola and the challenges
that they have to overcome to earn a living with their passion: handball. So, we went
to Elche (Comunitat Valenciana, Spain).
In addition, writing about the coaches field, we marked two objectives: Jordi Ribera
Romans, current coach of the Spanish national team (men) and with a long
experience as a manager (37 years) of important teams in Spain (CD Bidasoa and
Ademar Leon) and with reputed national teams, such as, Argentine and Brazil, and
Joaquin Rocamora, today’s coach of CB Elche (women) and former coach of the
U-17 Spanish national team (women) and of the Comunitat Valenciana team
(women). We selected both people to explain the economic issues which they have
to deal with day per day and to expound the differences between Spanish leagues
and the best leagues (France and Germany). It is necessary to emphasize that CB
Elche, with one of the lowest budgets of the entire women's first league, takes up the
second place of the classification.
Taking into account the executives area, we opted to interview the presidents of
Sacyr, main sponsor of the Spanish Handball Federation and the company which
has the naming rights of the Spanish men's leagues (Liga Sacyr ASOBAL and Copa
del Rey) and Iberdrola, the same as Sacyr but with the women's leagues. Although it
was not possible to interview the president of Sacyr (Manuel Manrique Cecilia), we
got its director of communications, Pedro Alonso Ruiz. We made the interview by
Zoom due to the coronavirus protocol of the company. From Iberdrola, we did not get
any answer. With both interviews we tried to find out the reasons and advantages
and disadvantages of sponsoring Spanish handball.
Getting inside of the economists group, we chose distincts professionals, for
example: Antonio Miguel Carmona Sancipriano and Jano Garcia. We only got an
answer from Carmona. So, we went to Madrid to make the interview. Carmona is
one of the most reputed economists of our country, he is a Doctor in Economic
Sciences and he has participated in Bill Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s presidential
campaigns. He also took part in the general Assembly of Atletico de Madrid football
club. He has been a fundamental source with the purpose of understanding the
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present context of the sport economy, focused on the handball scene. In the report
he talked about the capability of survival in this sport and suggested that it’s directly
related with showing it on TV and popularice on schools. Carmona, as the other
interviewees, claimed handball’s regression is associated with the lack of visibility.
Finally, writing about journalists sources, we determined to interview Luis Miguel
Lopez. He worked for 30 years at RTVE (national public Spanish channel) and he is
the current narrator of Gol Television (national Spanish channel) for Liga Sacyr
ASOBAL games. Additionally, he was the general manager of BM Ciudad Real and
BM Atletico de Madrid. The interview was made by Zoom because of the Covid-19
recommendation of the interviewee. Lopez, told us that the structures during the
boom years in the Spanish handball were old-fashioned and not well founded. As a
result, at the beginning of the real estate bubble, many clubs, such as those
mentioned above (BM Ciudad Real and BM Atletico de Madrid), disappeared or were
at risk of doing so. Since then, Spanish handball has been going through its own
particular exodus in which both players and coaches have had to emigrate in order
to make a living from this sport.
Secondly, writing about the specific strengths and weaknesses points of our
project:
On the one hand, the greatest strength of our report are the interviewees. We have
been able to interview eminent figures from the economy, business and handball.
We have also been able, thanks to these sources, to give, from our point of view, a
good portrait of what is happening in the world of handball and how the economic
situation affects it in particular. At the same time, another of the project's strong
points is the synthesis capacity that we have had by creating the final product. The
recorded material allowed us to present a report of more than 45 minutes, so we
have put much effort synthesizing properly all the information.
On the other hand, one of the most significant weaknesses has been the
representation of women in the project. It has to be said that we have done our
best to have more female players and coaches, but we could only include Lysa
Tchapchet. We thought of Montse Puche, head coach of BM Morvedre, but it was not
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possible to interview her because she was fired from the club 3 days before agreeing
the time and place of the interview. Then, we did not have an answer from her to
make the interview. It should be underlined that she was the only female coach, with
Cristina Cabeza, Balonmano Alcobendas manager, in Liga Guerreras Iberdrola.
Moreover, another source of information that we wanted to have was Francisco
Blázquez, president of the Spanish Handball Federation, but he was not able to be
interviewed because of his serious health condition related to Covid-19. In addition,
another improvable matter is the location of some interviews, for example, in the
conversation with Tchapchet and Rocamora, as well as with Garcia, we could not go
to the court game due to the training of other teams of the club, so we made the
interviews in the video room or in the press room. We also had problems with the
Carmona´s interview, the camera was almost broken and the spotlight reflected
behind him. But we could not change the room where we were because of the rules
of CEU San Pablo University (Madrid).
To sum up, Punto Cero is an illustrated sport report associated with handball which
aims to show the difficulties that professional people have to deal with in order to
enjoy and earn a living from their passion. Spanish handball needs the support of
public institutions, players, coaches, executives, social media, citizens, etc to make it
great again. This experience was fantastic, we have learnt many things about this
sport and our future profession, we have met famous people, but above all, we had
fun together, we have enjoyed a lot the trips that we made. We will never forget this
excellent adventure. Finally, we would not like to finish the brief without thanking
Rafael Mora Sesma and Amador Iranzo Montés because of their support and help to
make this report possible. [-]
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Treball Final de Grau en Periodisme. Codi: PE0932. Curs acadèmic: 2020/2021
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