Former Real Madrid player Antonio Martín is the new President of the Spanish League. Martín has been unanimously elected today in the clubs Assembly held in Barcelona. Aged 52, Martín, the younger brother of the late Fernando Martín played in Estudiantes, Pepperdine (NCAA) and Real Madrid and was a member of Spain's National Team.

After retirement, he was the Director of Real Madrid basketball section (2005-2009) and acted as consultant to the League in matters related to international TV rights. Martín becomes the seventh President of the ACB since League inception in 1982, after Antoni Novoa, Mariano Jacquotot, Juan Fernandez, Evaristo del Rio, Eduard Portela and Fransciso Roca, who left poffice last November.

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