FC Barcelona: former president Joan Laporta (2003-2010) announces he will run again on 18/07/2015

Joan Laporta announced his candidacy for the FC Barcelona (Liga BBVA) presidential elections, on 16/06/2015. A member of the Catalonian assembly since 2010, he served as the president of the Spanish club between 2003 and 2010.

The FC Barcelona presidential elections will take place on Saturday 18/07/2015. They follow the term resignation of Josep Maria Bartomeu, the current president, on 09/06/2015. Josep Maria Bartomeu announced on 07/01/2015 that the elections for president, initially scheduled for the end of the 2015-16 season, would be brought forward to the end of the 2014-15 season.

"A model based on Cruyff, La Masia, Catalonia and UNICEF" (Joan Laporta, on 16/06/2015)

• "As you know, I will be a candidate for the FC Barcelona presidential elections. I have put myself forward to help make FC Barcelona a club for everyone again.
• I have more experience. I have my faults, most of you already know about them, but I have kept the same principles.
• Those principles are those same ones that belong to the idea of 'Mes que un club.' (More than a club). It is a model based on (Johan…