{"id":488647,"date":"2026-03-18T15:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488647"},"modified":"2026-03-18T15:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:44:13","slug":"barca-basketball-sisco-pujol-appointed-section-lead-as-cubells-steps-aside-future-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/barca-basketball-sisco-pujol-appointed-section-lead-as-cubells-steps-aside-future-uncertain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bar\u00e7a Basketball: Sisco Pujol appointed section lead as Cubells steps aside, future uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1518\" data-end=\"1757\">FC Barcelona released a statement on Wednesday detailing the internal \u201ccohabitation\u201d framework involving <strong data-start=\"1623\" data-end=\"1639\">Joan Laporta<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1644\" data-end=\"1658\">Rafa Yuste<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"1665\" data-end=\"1682\">Josep Cubells<\/strong> set to act as vice president and secretary, handling institutional duties.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1759\" data-end=\"2071\">As a result, Cubells will no longer oversee the <strong data-start=\"1807\" data-end=\"1829\">basketball section<\/strong>, a role that will be taken over by <strong data-start=\"1865\" data-end=\"1880\">Sisco Pujol<\/strong> on an interim basis until <strong data-start=\"1907\" data-end=\"1924\">June 30, 2026<\/strong>. The club adds that, until the new board takes office (scheduled for <strong data-start=\"1994\" data-end=\"2010\">July 1, 2026<\/strong>), responsibility will rest with <strong data-start=\"2043\" data-end=\"2070\">Francesc Pujol i Sabat\u00e9<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2073\" data-end=\"2383\">According to journalist Marc Mundet and as reported\/confirmed by Mundo Deportivo, the expectation is that Cubells may not return to the basketball department after that date. The piece notes Pujol, 60, has previously served as a board member at Hiopos Lleida and as president of Club Deportivo EFAC Almacelles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The club outlines the structure through June 30, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[305,199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-488647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acb","category-euroleague"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/DE9_1373.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488647"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488647"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488647"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}