Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, inimitable president of Betis, dies. A president that is difficult to forget for Real Betis.
Under his mandate they played two Copa del Rey finals, one won against Osasuna in 2005, another lost in 1997 against FC Barcelona. The club remembers a unique president, who built as much as he destroyed, but always felt the wild and noisy way in Jesús del Poder, Real Balompié. The Betic, along with Augusto César Lendoiro, José María Caneda, Joan Gaspart and JesúS Gil, filled hours of television and radio around football news.