{"id":499188,"date":"2026-06-01T11:48:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=499188"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:48:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:48:47","slug":"real-madrid-enrique-riquelme-promises-investment-in-basketball-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/real-madrid-enrique-riquelme-promises-investment-in-basketball-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid, Enrique Riquelme promises investment in basketball section"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\"><strong>Enrique Riquelme<\/strong>, candidate for the <strong>Real Madrid<\/strong> presidency, has also addressed the future of the club\u2019s basketball section ahead of the elections. According to <em>Sport24<\/em>, he wants to strengthen the basketball project alongside the football team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isSelectedEnd\">Riquelme has promised a new <strong>15,000-seat arena<\/strong> in the Valdebebas area. His plan is clear: Real Madrid should remain in <strong>EuroLeague<\/strong>, focus on revenue growth and avoid cutting the basketball budget.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFlorentino P\u00e9rez talks about selling to foreign funds. I will never sell anything that belongs to the club,\u201d Riquelme said. He also added: \u201cNo one is bigger than Real Madrid. Florentino was a great president, but that does not give him the right to sell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The presidential candidate wants a new 15,000-seat arena and says Real Madrid should remain in EuroLeague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":498245,"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":[34,82],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-499188","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\/05\/ASRge5eK.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499188","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=499188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499188"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=499188"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=499188"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=499188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}