Meridia Private Equity, an investment fund created in 2006 by Javier Faus, a former manager of FC Barcelona, has acquired a significant minority stake in Fútbol Emotion, a Spanish chain of football stores, to help it to expand in Spain and abroad. Founded in 2002, Fútbol Emotion has just opened the largest football store in Madrid, building up to a network of 18 points of sale in Spain. It also has an international online store that is regarded as the third-largest of the kind in Southern Europe. According to CMD Sport, it wants to have about five physical stores in France, Italy and other parts of Southern Europe by 2022.

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