Gorica faces uncertain times after relegation from the First Telemach League: rumours of the American investor’s farewell are getting louder in Primorska
When it became clear a few months ago that Gorica would attract a foreign investor, George Juncaj from the United States was not the only one willing to invest in the club from Nova Gorica. The Gorizia board also had an offer on the table from a business consortium from Switzerland, but the ideas and concepts presented by George Juncaj were clearly more tempting. And at first, it really seemed like a success story was beginning to be written. The new business partner of the former Slovenian champion has covered the debts from the past and at the same time provided enough money for some winter reinforcements. After all, the legendary Edy Reja came on the bench quite quickly and it really seemed that Gorica was on the way to better times.
Just half a year after the tectonic shifts in the Sports Park in Novogorje, the whole story has already turned into a dead end. First and foremost because of what happens on the pitch, which is the most important thing anyway. Gorica continued to have poor results in the spring, but finally got burnt in the additional qualifiers, in which Aluminij secured a place among the elite.
How to raise enough money?
What a return to
2. SNL
means for Gorica will be interesting to see. Rumours are growing louder in Primorska that George Juncaj is not surprised by the excessive desire for second league football. He is said to be openly flirting with an early departure from Nova Gorica. That this would plunge Gorizia back into the dark ages, there is no doubt. In this case, reality will become quite black and, first and foremost, harsh. Fatal for Gorizia too?
It probably won’t go that far, after all, playing in 2. SNL is infinitely cheaper than playing in
Telemach First League
. If Gorica is left to its own devices again, the club’s new management ( Hari Arcon was succeeded by local businessman Uroš Blažica as president last October) will be seriously tested. In an environment that is not, by any chance, as conducive to investing in football today as it used to be, he will have to somehow raise enough money to survive.
This text was automatically translated using AI.
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