Miguel Ángel Gil Marín

Miguel Ángel Gil Marín (born 1963) is a Spanish sports executive and stockbreeder, CEO of Atlético de Madrid since 1993. He also is the main shareholder of the football team.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Gil and the second or maternal family name is Marín.
Miguel Ángel Gil Marín
Born1963
Madrid, Spain
NationalitySpanish
OccupationSports executive · stockbreeder

Biography

Born in 1963 in Madrid,[1] he is the second son of Jesús Gil y Gil, former President of Atlético Madrid (1987–2003) and Mayor of Marbella (1991–2002), and María Ángeles Marín Cobo.[2][3] Graduated as veterinarian,[3] his father gave him control over the Valdeolivas property in Arenas de San Pedro near the Sierra de Gredos, known as location for horse breeding.[4] In time, Gil Marín developed a business conglomerate dedicated to horse and bull breeding as well as hunting activities,[4] with businesses in both Valdeolivas (10 km2) and the Finca El Arco (2.5 km2) in the province of Toledo.[5]

His father also introduced him to administration of the Atlético de Madrid football team, with Gil Marín becoming the CEO in 1993.[5] Since 2004, as Jesús Gil died, he also became the owner of the majority of shares along Enrique Cerezo, who became Chairman of the company.[5] As the conversion from football club into a Sociedad Anónima Deportiva (SAD) in the 1990s was ruled as a case of embezzlement ("unlawful appropiation") by justice (although the Supreme Court suspended the two-year prison sentence to Gil Marín and Cerezo as well as the restitution of shares in 2004 on the basis of the extinction of the charges after 5 years), the property over the shares remains controversial.[6]

Gil Marín lives in the exclusive La Finca in Pozuelo de Alarcón; as of 2019, his fortune was estimated as the 192nd in Spain.[7]

Awards

References
  1. Borasteros, Daniel (29 December 2004). "El club dejaría el estadio por 100 hectáreas". El País.
  2. Bercovitz, Vera (2012-02-20). "a familia y tal y tal: cuando los hijos de Jesús Gil y Gil hablaron de su herencia". Vanity Fair.
  3. Pina, Marina (12 May 2019). "La familia de Jesús Gil, unida y embargada 15 años después de su muerte". El Mundo.
  4. Paniagua, Mayka (18 May 2018). "Miguel Ángel Gil maneja un imperio de caballos, toros y camisetas rojiblancas". La Información.
  5. "Cerezo y Gil Marín, entre las 200 mayores fortunas de España". Mundo Deportivo. 31 January 2019.
  6. Seguín, Bécquer (28 December 2016). "Los múltiples crímenes de Jesús Gil". CTXT.
  7. "Miguel Ángel Gil Marín y familia". El Mundo. 30 January 2019.
  8. Rodríguez, Rubén (30 December 2010). "Gil Marín, elegido el mejor gestor deportivo del año 2010 por los 'Globe Soccer Awards'". El Confidencial.
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