What is Grupo Orlegi, who does it belong to and what teams does it own?

Atlas It has remained one of the best teams in Liga MX in recent years, with an extremely solid project and well supported by its owners: Orlegi group. Along with the Rojinegros there is also Saintspart of this timeshare that has been responsible for adequately solving the problems of each of its clubs to position them as strong contenders for the title.

But to these two great teams has been added the purchase in this month of June 2022 of the sporty gionone of the historical figures of Spanish football now present in the category of the Second Division.

The word time share It has not been well received in the Mexican environment. After the idea of ​​eradicating this concept of national football, Alejandro Irarragorri came up with an extremely attractive proposal to add to the Atlas on your payroll and MX competition He did not hesitate to disregard his regulations to allow two clubs to belong to the same company.

It is well known that the Orlegi group has gained considerable power in Mexican football, as it has resolved in favor of the Mexican Football Federation the issue of broadcasting rights that it had also bid for Mobile America, directed by Carlos Slim and Arturo Elías Ayub. Now it is the Oregi Group itself that promoted the arrival of Diego Cocca al Tri to the 2026 World Cup.

Therefore below GOAL We tell you more about this association:

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Orlegi group is a company with offices in various states of the Mexican Republic and countries such as the United States, Colombia and Scotland, among others. It has two business branches: Orlegi Sports & Entertainmentfocused on sports and Orlegi affairs for the development of business projects. In the first they, apparently, enter Atlas and saints as their strongest teams.

They used to have tampico madero in the MX Expansion Competition, but they recently announced that they will leave the club because they failed to meet their business expectations, in addition to structural problems in their stadium that are difficult to solve.

Although Alejandro Irarragorri is the director of Grupo Orlegi and president of Sporting de Giijón, he has also delegated certain responsibilities to other characters. In the field of sports, Jose Ristra is the chairman of AtlasMeanwhile in Saints it is Dante Elizalde.