Barca president set to resign: report

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

MADRID (AFP) — The under-fire president of Spanish football club Barcelona, Juan Laporta, will resign from his post on Thursday after he narrowly survived a weekend confidence vote, Catalan daily Sport reported on its website Tuesday.

Laporta has been forced into this position by his management committee who are due to hold an emergency meeting on Thursday following two years of turbulence where the club failed to win any major titles, it claimed.

Laporta survived a confidence vote on Sunday even though less than half of all supporters who participated backed him.

The 45-year-old got the backing of just 37.75 percent of the 39,389 supporters who took part in the vote while 60.60 percent voted against him staying on until his current mandate at the Spanish...

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