Athletic Club: "Our path, the socio model, is unique among the footballing elite" (J. Berasategi)

"Being different does not make us any better or worse. Because the point is not to be different, but to be what we are, what we want to be. We know that our identity makes us different, but because of this our path, the Athletic Club model, is unique among the footballing elite," said Jon Berasategi, the general manager of Athletic Club (LaLiga Santanger), to News Tank Football on 09/04/2018.

Jon Berasategi and Athletic Club, an associate member club of the ECA, will be present in Split (CRO) for a conference on the structure of football clubs held by their supporters, titled "'Socio' Membership Structure: From Strategy to Implementation, Management, and Practice", organised by the ECA in partnership with its member club HNK Hajduk Split (Prva HNL, CRO), on Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11/04/2018. News Tank Football is a media partner of the event and will be present on site to cover the various discussions.

The Bilbao-based club currently has 44,452 "socio" members (as of 30/06/2017). "The 'sentimiento Athletic' is a feeling of belonging to the Club. It is a feeling of identification…