Barcelona Sporting Club
He was elected President of the Barcelona Sporting Club soccer team from Guayaquil for the 2007-2011 period. In the 2008 season Maruri led the team to a 5th place in the Ecuadorian Serie A. In the 2009 season was the worst of all, lots of wrong decisions and lack of leadership from Maruri, Barcelona barely escaped a relegation to the Ecuadorian Serie B, which would have been the clubs first relegation in history. In the 2010 season, Maruri led the team to a berth in Copa Sudamericana, but where eliminated in the second round and a 4th overall in the Ecuadorian Serie A.
Do to the lack of a Ecuadorian Serie A title and after Maruri announced Barcelona's total debt of more than 17 million, fans started to create Facebook, twitter pages and writing banners with "LARGATE MARURI"(English:Leave Maruri) and bringing it to Barcelona's home stadium, Estadio Monumental. In December 22, 2010 Maruri resigned the presidency of Barcelona after a surprise press conference along side his family and fellow friends. Maruri stated that he was leaving Barcelona do to "Family issues", then Maruri started crying and said,"We were born to be champions, I'm not the man who abandons his ship in a horrible thunderstorm and is about to be sunken underwater, I know better days will come for Barcelona".
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