Flat Earth FC President Speaks About The Club

Story By: Alex Cope, Sub EditorJoseph GolderAgencyGolder’s News And Sport

The ex-top flight footballer who is the president Flat Earth FC – the world’s first club dedicated to putting across the flat earth conspiracy theory – has spoken about his thinking behind the club.

Javi Poves, 32, played in Spain’s top flight for Sporting de Gijon in 2010 and was a youth prospect at Atletico Madrid before he quit football in 2011 citing the “money and corruption” in professional football as his reasons for leaving the sport.

He became club president of lower league Madrid side Mostoles Balompie in 2016 and the club have now risen to Spain’s fourth-tier. However, before their debut in the league this season Poves has renamed the club Flat Earth FC and he plans to use the club to promote the flat earth theory.

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He told Marca at the time: “A football club should be an instrument, a club is to be used and at Flat Earth FC we want to convey that there are a lot of people who don’t believe in what they have instilled from us from a young age.”

Poves has know explained his beliefs to the Huffington Post, saying: “Water doesn’t curve, there are no experiments which have managed to do it in large quantities, never mind make it stay. From there you start to realise that the heliocentric model is very crazy.”

The heliocentric model is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the centre of the Solar System.

When asked about his hopes for the club, he said: “If the question is if Javi Poves is going to become a millionaire with this, then the answer is no. I want to strengthen this, I couldn’t care less about the money. If at some time money comes to me it’s for using. “

Speaking about changing the name of the club, Poves said: “We are a young team and we don’t have a fan base. Mostoles (the area of Madrid where the club is based) has to understand that it’s a global question, not regional. If someone feels hurt, I’ll tell them that I feel hurt because of the policies we suffer.”

He added: “There are lots of Medieval maps which talk about lands beyond the ice. It hasn’t been proven but I believe in it. There are European and South American players and a singer among those who have contacted me.”

Huffington Post report he wants to unite all flat earth believers around the football club.

Believers in the flat-Earth conspiracy claim that NASA and other government agencies are conspiring to male the public believe the Earth is spherical when it is actually flat.

Poves describes NASA as the “largest marketing company every created along with Disney” and claims “it is not possible to leave here (Earth) because combustion engines stop combusting at an altitude of around 100 kilometres.”

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