Businessman Carles Vilarrubí, pillar of the creation of Catalunya Ràdio and former vp of Barça, dies at 71 | News from Catalonia | EUROtoday

Carles Vilarrubí, businessman and former president of FC Barcelona, ​​died this morning on the age of 71. The membership confirmed this in an announcement through which it regretted the loss of life of the person who was institutional vp of the entity from July 1, 2010 to October 1, 2017. He held the place of the Barça membership on the boards of Sandro Rosell and Josep Maria Bartomeu.

Vilarrubí had an vital function within the enterprise world and within the political sphere. Closely linked to the beginnings of Convergència i Unió (CiU), he participated within the beginning of Catalunya Ràdio when Jordi Pujol was on the head of the Generalitat. He served as common secretary and deputy director of the general public broadcaster between 1983 and 1986.

Before becoming a member of Pujol’s entourage, he was a member of the Unió Democràtica de Catalunya from 1974 till the merger of each events, positioning himself as a consensus determine till the 1980 parliamentary elections.

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, has highlighted the “significant presence in Catalan economic and social life” of the businessman. Illa has praised his “important communication legacy” due to his promotion of Catalan radio with the founding of the general public station and Rac1.

The president of Foment del Treball, Josep Sánchez Llibre, who had recognized Vilarrubí for 40 years, has additionally evoked him as a “person of consensus” and an “honest and multifaceted” entrepreneur. “I knew that his health was delicate,” he stated, including in statements to 3CatInfo that he realized of his loss of life this morning. Llibre has outlined Vilarrubí as a “great businessman and a good friend”, linked to Foment after the settlement signed between the Catalan employers’ affiliation and the Catalan Academy of Gastronomy to internationalize gastronomy.

The businessman and former vp was till now investigated by the National Court within the Pujol case for funds to 2 corporations owned by Jordi Pujol Ferrussola between 2004 and 2012.

Another notable episode was his resignation on October 1, 2017 after President Bartomeu and the boys’s first staff gamers skipped the board of administrators’ settlement to not play the match towards Las Palmas. When Bartomeu knowledgeable the squad that the match was not being performed, the gamers stated that they didn’t agree as a result of the League would deduct a minimal of six factors from them (they have been leaders), and at last they opted to play behind closed doorways.

He was the husband of the president of Coca Cola Europacific Parterns, Sol Daurella, an organization that manufactures, bottles and distributes the well-known model in 28 nations in Europe, in addition to Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands and Indonesia. He was awarded the Creu de Sant Jordi by the Generalitat in 2015. He has presided over the Catalan Academy of Gastronomy and Nutrition since 2016.

In addition to being a connoisseur, Vilarrubí was enthusiastic about ice hockey resulting from his shut relationship in his youth with Puigcerdà, the capital of Cerdanya, a area of the Catalan Pyrenees. In the Nineteen Seventies he served as a area hockey goalkeeper for the Atlètic Terrassa Hockey Club, a proven fact that catapulted him to the FC Barcelona staff, which he lastly left resulting from a sequence of accidents.