The ice hockey team of Vitoria resorts to Lanbide to find a goalkeeper before the small market. Salary: 1,000 euros gross per monthThe team of Bipolo poses, before his fans, in the prolegomena of a game last season."Ice hockey goalie is needed. National or foreign, with verstable experience and willingness to reside in Vitoria. One-year contract, at a rate of 1,000 gross euros per month ". The offer has been available in Lanbide. The Basque employment service has been the last resort to which the ice hockey team of Vitoria, Bipolo, has been led, given the limitations of a market that have made it impossible for a goalkeeper to sign guarantees to shore up the squad for the next season. A search that continues without giving results. No candidate seems to fit the profile. Water, for now, more than ice.None of those interested in the offer meet the profile demandedGood and cheap are the requirements that Bipolo has set for its new incorporation. They can do without the bonito. The market is not like for demands in a sport modality that, although it is only by the lack of spaces to play it, is very minority in Spain. "There are a lot of players and they know each other, so it's not hard to find them, but there are fewer goalkeepers and the good guys, who have agents, are unreachable for a modest club like ours," explains Xabier Ruiz, one of the responsible of the entity, which plays in the top national category and aspires this year to fight for the League or the Copa del Rey.Ambition despite the crisisIf the crisis has taken its toll on football and other major sports, whose leagues have been reduced even in some cases, ice hockey is no exception. To the point that the maximum competition is disputed only by six teams, two of them Basque: Txuri Urdin from San Sebastian and Bipolo. The Vitoria club, however, is the example that can also grow in full recession.The Bipolo is a newly created club that wanted to rescue the tradition that hockey has always had in the Alava capital. After the disappearance of the historic Gasteiz in 2008, the city was orphaned as a team, although part of its former players continued to practice skating on the new ice rink of the Sports City Baskonia. It was his dedication and hobby that allowed to promote a new project.After a trial season, the entity has marked this year as the goal of the fight for one of the two championships at stake: the League or the Cup. It aims to take advantage of the fact that the crisis also affects the rest of the clubs to grow in the sporty flat. Never a club in Vitoria has won any title and to achieve it would open the doors of Europe for the first time. The support of the fans seems guaranteed. Last season there was even a need to expand the stands in certain matches.The template counts, in fact, with two goalkeepers, but the jump of quality that the Bipolo tries requires of a more professional dedication. "We want the new incorporation to train tomorrow and afternoon," explains Ruiz, who hopes to close the signing before the start of the season on September 15. Accustomed to the astronomical figures that are handled in sports such as football, a gross salary of 1,000 euros per month may seem scarce for the dedication required. It is not, however, in a modality in which a club rarely approaches the 100,000 euros budget. The players, in addition, charge even less than the goalkeepers. It is about paying for the transfer and residence outside the home.The full scourge of the economic crisis, more than one candidate would stick by being a mileurist ice hockey goalie. The problem lies in the specialization of the position. So much so, that the search through Lanbide has been, for now, unsuccessful. Some candidates decided to subscribe to it, but none met the conditions. In the club of Vitoria, however, do not despair, if only for the options that represent other markets. Sport, not in vain, has been one of the sectors in which internationalization has been best applied, which business gurus demand as a tool in the face of recession. "Right now, big goalkeepers are in vogue in Russia, so the short ones are looking for a place in other leagues," says Ruiz.The modalityCompetition. The division of honor is formed by six clubs: Barcelona, Bipolo, Txuri-Urdin, Jaca, Puigcerd� and Majadahonda.Template. In the absence of the incorporation of the new goalkeeper, the Vitorian team is made up of nine players today: Betr�n, Angles, Hern�ndez and Zemchenko (Jaca); Brabo (Puigcerd�); and the brothers Gavilanes, Gracia and Mu�oz.Season. The League will begin on September 15. The preseason of the Bipolo starts this Wednesday.The new goalkeeper will be the professional reference of a team that has propped up with players from outside Vitoria to aspire to more ambitious sports. Those of house will continue being the ideal complement of the group, although their dedication is smaller. They do not charge for it either. "They play what they like and they do it without having to put a piece of their money. They are paid the displacements, the insurance, the card, the material ... ", reveals Ruiz. It's what the non-professional sport has. Practicing it requires a double effort and finding someone willing, sometimes, is impossible mission. Especially, if he's ice hockey goalie.https://www.hockeynews.xyz/2019/02/diary-of-as-america-607-el-dorado-in.html
