“…Spain, suffered one of the biggest economic crises of the last decades, like many countries worldwide, caused by the collapse of the housing bubble in the United States, affecting a large number of sectors and industries, including sports (Andreff, 2007;Benito, Solana, Moreno, 2012;Jurak, Andreff, Popović, Jakšić, Bednarik, 2014). This crisis had a direct influence on sports income, as well as on the decreasing GDP of many countries (Coşkuner, Gacar, Coban, and Devecioğlu, 2011;Cainarean, Veverita, and Veverita, 2011).…”