Jaén, Feb 17 (EFE).-He has just won the Spanish Futsal Cup. Its budget reaches 1.3 million euros. Of these, 500,000 euros are provided by the Provincial Council, with its label ‘Jaén, Paraíso Interior’. It has a new headquarters. It occupies two commercial warehouses in a polygon of the city. A club on the rise. 6,500 fans fill the Olivo Arena.
In 2015 it was a miracle, in 2018 the reality and this 2023 the confirmation that Jaén Paraíso Interior Futsal is already a big club by already having three Spanish Cups in its showcases, three runners-up in the Copa del Rey (2018, 2019 and 2020) and three second places in the Super Cup (2016 and 2019).
This sporting growth is coupled with the spectacular social and economic dimension that the entity has acquired, which has become the flag of a province and a city, whose soccer team, Real Jaén, plays in the fifth national category (Third Federation ).
He has achieved all this since his return to the First Division of Futsal, in the 2013/2014 season, and also from playing in a pavilion with 1,200 spectators, La Salobreja, which was inaugurated in 1975 with the last edition of the Cup of the basketball Generalissimo with a Real Madrid-Estudiantes match and the farewell from the benches of the legendary Pedro Ferrándiz, to one of 6,500 fans, the Olivo Arena, where he has played since July 1, 2021.
The key person behind the fact that the Jaén Paraíso Interior FS brand has also become an economic exponent is Nicolás Sabariego, who joined the club in 2011 and who, as the entity’s general manager, has created a professionalized structure in all positions.
The club is a claim for the institutions and commercial companies of the city, the province and the Andalusian community. It has a budget of 1.3 million euros this season, of which some 500,000 are provided by the Provincial Council, with the brand ‘Jaén, Paraíso Interior’, to later have economic contributions from the City Council, the Junta de Andalucía, entities banks and companies from various sectors of Jaén society.
Nicolás Sabariego, who is also in charge of the sports field, was forceful in the celebrations for the Spanish Cup title. “Here all the sponsors add up, those who contribute more and those who offer less money, because each one, within their possibilities, supports the growth of Jaén Paraíso Interior”, he highlighted from the balcony of the Town Hall before a devoted fans.
Jaén Paraíso Interior also has the honor of being the futsal club in Europe with the most subscribers, with 5,300 this season -it had a thousand in the old La Salobreja pavilion- and this is due to having a new facility that It allows us to have that social mass and an expansion throughout the province.
Another key to the fact that the club, founded on July 31, 1987, has crossed the sports field is the sale of products: t-shirts, tracksuits, sweatshirts, scarves, pants, pens, mobile chargers, watches, notebooks, among many other products. .
All this is sold in a new headquarters built a year and a half ago and that occupies two commercial warehouses in a polygon of the city. There he has sold more than fifteen thousand yellow shirts in a facility that has offices, a large press room and a gym has been built for the players of the first team and lower categories to exercise,
Jaén Paraíso Interior wishes to continue with this expansion that has allowed it to win the same Spanish Cups in the last nine years as great teams and clubs such as Barça and Movistar Inter and to be an example for others seeking titles and even They have a bigger budget than the people from Jaén, such as Mallorca Palma Futsal or Viña Albali Valdepeñas FS.