Ten things you don’t know about Intercity, Barcelona’s rival in the Copa del Rey

It is not very common for a club that has only been in existence for five years to reach the elite. The case of Intercity It is especially striking, its structure, its organization, has little to do with what we usually find in a modest club. For him FCBarcelona andIn the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, they have a great opportunity to continue making history in Spanish football. We are going to get closer to find out more details about this atypical club and hitherto unknown to the general public, because there are several aspects that you probably did not know about the people of Alicante.

1. traded. There are many big European clubs that are stepping on the parquet, but in Spain they were the first. It happened on October 29, 2021, four years after its creation.
2. Since then, its shares have experienced constant ups and downs, the last of which is very positive, as they have risen to the end of 2022 with a value of 0.42 euros per title from 0.09 euros. And all this after learning about his donor couple with Barcelona.
3. The road to here has not been easy. In the first fourteen months on the stock exchange, especially in the BME growth, smaller than the Continuous Market, shares plummeted to 86 percent.
4. The origin of Intercity We find it in the GCD Sant Joan, a club founded in 1929 that transformed from head to toe a group of investors led by Salvador Martí, the current president, and Javier Mira.
5. Martí and Mira had founded earlier, FacePhi, a facial recognition company and attracted new investors. Currently, some 1,100 shareholders, almost all of whom are minorities, make up the share mass.
6. An important moment in its short history took place when the company Alpha Blue Ocean put all its efforts for a capital increase of 4.5 million. In addition, they raised more than a million with ingenious formulas thanks to a crowdfunding campaign on the Fellow Funders platform.
7. The former player of Atletico Madrid, Juanfran Torres, He is the sports vice president and majority owner of the club. In his hands lies the responsibility for the professionalization of the club.
8. The club has a football school at its base in San Juan de Alicante and its commitment to the quarry is complemented by a subsidiary that plays in the Second RFEF. Currently, the first team occupies 16th place in Group 2 of the Primera RFEF, one point away from relegation.
9. We talked about it a lot Intercity as a company because it attracts a lot of attention because a case like his doesn’t happen often in our sport, but the sporting successes are there: nothing more and nothing less than four promotions in six years, a meteoric rise that puts him on the gates of the professional football.
10. By the way, the meIntercity CF, who already faced the Barcelona subsidiary in the league this year, met another illustrious blaugrana. It happened three years ago when they had a place to compete in the Third Division and they made a bid for the spot that became vacant in Group III of Second Division B, the missing Reus Deportiu. The people of Alicante deposited the 400,000 euros as a deposit to choose the place, but in the end the RFEF awarded it to Andorra the Gerard Pique.