Granada 74 President’s Principled Hunger Strike
By: Bob | July 25th, 2007
It is always admirable when people take a stand for issues they believe in and when they are willing to risk their lives for a noble cause. Carlos Marsa, the president of the Spanish football Club Granada 74, is putting his mouth where his money is. He is staging a hunger strike because the local council is not allowing his club to share the city’s stadium with two other clubs.
“People may not like what I’m doing but the methods we’ve used up to now haven’t worked,” Marsa told a news conference on Wednesday.
“I’m not hurting anyone, only myself…. If I have to go I will go straight upstairs. I’m 59 years old, not 18 …”
It is almost easy to be sympathetic to Marsa’s struggles until you learn a little more about the story. You see, the reason why Grenada 74 are looking for a stadium to play in is because Marsa sold their previous stadium and used the proceeds to buy Grenada 74’s way into the second division from the lowly depths of the Andalucian third division. In the process the club leaped ahead of 400 or so clubs in Spain, a move that has evidently left some people feeling queasier than a club president on a hunger strike.
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