A modest Basque handball club distributes 153 million of the second: “We did not want that number and look”

If the main objective of a small town club is to serve its community, the Basauri Handball Team has fulfilled this December 22 with that role to the fullest. This handball club in the Biscayan town has distributed around 153 million euros, corresponding to 123 series of the number 72.119, awarded with the second prize of the extraordinary draw of the Christmas Lottery.

“Us we didn’t want that number and look … “, he explains to ‘El Periódico de España’ Jose Angel Garcia, president of the Biscayan entity. This year the club celebrates its 35th anniversary and they appeared at the Lottery administration looking for a number that would make reference to that anniversary: ​​”One that ended in 35, or that had 86, which is the year of foundation, even 21, for the year in which we are. But there weren’t any. So we took the first one we saw. “

15,000 euros per ballot

And the first number they saw turned out to be the second prize from the Jackpot. The club bought 123 of 172 series, “We only buy the ones we sell”, and with them he prepared participations of three euros, of which 60 cents are donations for the club and 2.40 euros for the lottery. They have sold about 10,000 ballots in total. Each of them carries a prize of 15.000 euros.

“I don’t know how many people have touched it, but think that people usually buy two, three, six… It has been very distributed and almost all of them have been bought by residents of Basauri, which is the best of all. I’ve been bouncing all morning, my hair still looks like spikes. So many people are calling me that I have not even been able to leave the house, “explains José Ángel on the other end of the phone.

The Basauri Handball Team It is a classic club in this municipality that borders the southern border with Bilbao. Founded in 1986, it has around 500 partners and a school where more than 150 children practice handball. In total, it has about 300 players in all its categories, from pre-baby to senior, both boys and girls. The absolute teams play in Second (them) and First (them) National.

100,000 euros budget

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The club itself will also get a good pinch, since it reserved a handful of ballots, “now I don’t know if two or three tenths, something like that.” Each tenth is awarded with 125.000 euros before taxes, which will mean an injection of capital money for a sports entity that manages an annual budget of about 100,000 euros.

What will they do with so much money? “Well, I have no idea, really. Now we have to meet the board of directors and think about that. Let’s see what we do, how we organize ourselves … I don’t know. But hey, goddamn problem.”