Nota de Prensa
MON 24.04.2017
On Monday 24 April, LaLiga welcomed the visit of a delegation from Japan's J.League. LaLiga president Javier Tebas met with a group of Japanese representatives, including Hiromi Hara, the J.League's vice-president, Takeyuki Oya, its international marketing director, Akane Suzuki, the person in charge of international relations and Yoshinori Aokage, head of Economic Control of the clubs.
In September 2016, Alfredo Lorenzo, LaLiga's director of integrity and security, and Esperanza Bernal-Quiros, LaLiga's head of compliance, took part in a seminar on integrity organised by the Japanese league, the Japan Football Association and the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. The meeting served to put the foundations in place to arrange future collaborative events between both organisations. The aim is to start exchanging information, so that LaLiga can help football development in Japan, and to sign a Memorandum of Understanding between LaLiga and the Japanese league at the end of the present campaign. The agreement will strengthen ties between the two bodies and foster an increasingly collaborative working relationship.
Melcior Soler, the director of LaLiga's audiovisual department, was entrusted with welcoming the Japanese delegation to LaLiga headquarters in Madrid and explaining the targets that his division has achieved, as well as the strategy that is being followed. They also had a meeting with Lorenzo who described the different projects that are underway in the integrity and security department and the breakthroughs made in recent years. The internationalisation process that LaLiga is currently immersed in was also mentioned with the delegation from the J.League, while Vicente Casado, LaLiga's managing director of international development, was also involved in proceedings. LaLiga's representatives also explained their strategies and projects linked to development and support within women's football, before moving on to the effectiveness of LaLiga's financial control system and topics related to the competition itself and refereeing.
LaLiga, which boasts a Japanese company among its sponsors – Mazda –, has been trying to bolster its relationship with Japan for some years now, as shown by the Japanese league's visit to LaLiga headquarters in Madrid in October 2014. Furthermore, last December, LaLiga's contribution to the successful liaison between Japan and Spain was recognised through receiving the 2016 Spain-Japan Contribution Award from Spain's Chamber of Commerce in Japan.
LaLiga is once again proving that it is at the forefront of management in various fields and is taking further steps forward as part of its collaborative strategy with other leagues and international football associations to boost the game's development the world over. The connection is yet another step forward within LaLiga's process of internationalisation, which already includes several agreements with leagues in countries such as Nigeria, Colombia, Honduras and Ecuador.
© LALIGA - 2017