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Andbank, Albert Llovera’s new sponsor until 2022

The bank will make its début as the exclusive banking sector sponsor of the Andorran driver in this year’s Dakar Rally, which is due to begin on 5 January in the Saudi city of Jeddah.
From today until 20 January Albert Llovera will exhibit his official car in the CCA shopping centre in Andorra la Vella.

Monday, 23 December, 2019

Today Andbank unveiled the agreement whereby the entity will sponsor Andorran driver Albert Llovera throughout the 2020, 2021 and 2022 seasons. The first competition to reflect this partnership will be the 2020 Dakar Rally, during which Llovera is set to form part of the Rooy Team in the truck category.

The presentation of this agreement also served to launch the exhibition featuring Llovera’s official car, which will be on display until 20 January in the CCA shopping centre in Avinguda Meritxell in Andorra la Vella, and it was attended by the driver himself, Alain Cabanes, Andorra la Vella’s Councillor of Youth, Citizen Participation and Sports, Anna Olsina, Andbank’s Business Director and Josep Mª Cabanes Sots, Managing Director of Banca País.

Albert Llovera (Andorra, 1966) returns to the Dakar Rally comes after a two-year absence. It will be the sixth time he has competed in the race, after taking part in the categories for cars (2007 and 2014) and buggies (2015) and the two occasions on which he completed the route at the wheel of a truck. This year Llovera will drive one of the three trucks belonging to the Dutch Rooy contingent, the official Iveco team, the vehicle with the greatest chance of success of all those he has ever driven.

During today’s presentation Llovera thanked Andbank for “allowing us to renew this
partnership and work together once again. I’m really looking forward to the Dakar, despite being the
third driver in the team, and I know I need to stay alert in case there are any withdrawals or
incidents”.

Anna Olsina, Andbank’s General Business Director, stated that “Andbank’s sponsorship of Albert over the next three seasons reflects our commitment to Andorran sport and its international scope, but it also has a special nature, reflecting deep-rooted values in our entity such as perseverance and teamwork, which are essential in competitive events as demanding as the Dakar Rally. We also share Albert’s ambition to make a positive contribution to society, in his case in his role as a UNICEF ambassador”.

Alain Cabanes, Andorra la Vella’s Minister of Youth, Citizen Participation and
Sports, declared that “our institution also sponsors
Albert because he is a leading figure and an excellent example to our parish.
We all wish him great success and luck in his upcoming adventure”.

Albert Llovera is one of the most emblematic sportspeople and personalities in Andorra, not only because of his successful racing career, which dates back to 1987, but also due to his history of perseverance. With his new agreement with Andbank, which resumes the one the driver and entity maintained between 1999 and 2005, giving rise to sporting achievements such as a second place in the Catalan Rally Championship, victory in the Catalan Car Racing Championship and seventh place in the Rally of Finland, Llovera will not only race with the Andbank logo on his vehicle and equipment but also give talks and take part in several of the bank’s campaigns.

In addition to its support for Albert Llovera, Andbank also partners Andorran sport by means of agreements with the Andorran Olympic Committee, the cross-country skiing team of the Andorran Ski Federation, the Andorran Swimming Federation and the popular La Purito Andorra cycling race.