Pedro Largo Carazo from Madurga and Largo Gestores from Soria: “We provide services and trust”
Pedro Largo Carazo is graduate in Economic Sciences, Economic Analysis and Quantitative Economics, and since 2008 he has been an administrative manager at Madurga and Largo Gestores. In 1988, Pedro began a long football career that began at CD Carabanchel and continued in different clubs until 2008, the year in which he changed the football fields for labor, fiscal and accounting management.
How do you go from being a footballer to an administrative manager? Tell us about this interesting 360-degree turn in your profession.
At home they always made it clear to me that studies came first and until I finished my economics degree, they didn't let me go out and play soccer outside of Madrid (which I am very grateful for now).
I have transferred these values to my life and for that reason I have tried to train myself throughout my sporting career because by training 2 or 3 hours a day, I had a lot of time for training.
When I turned 30 I started to worry about “the day after” and in 2004, together with a partner, I opened a consultancy in El Ejido (team where I was playing in the second division). In 2006 I took the Administrative Manager exam and passed.
With the necessary training and degree, María Jesús Madurga -Administrative Manager in Soria- offered me the possibility of working with her in what was GESTORÍA MADURGA and when I retired in 2008, I came to work in Soria in what is currently GESTORÍA MADURGA Y LARGO.
You offer a very interesting service for the representation of professional footballers, what does this service consist of, and what does it provide to those who hire it? Does it represent an important percentage in your professional portfolio?
The representation of footballers is a very complex business. Fundamentally, it is about helping footballers to develop their sporting career successfully.
We consider that we must treat and care for the footballers who trust us as we would have liked to be treated when we were playing and above all with the perspective that experience gives you.
For this reason we care, not only about the players' football career, but also about their training as people and the complementary aspects that concern them on a daily basis because we are clear that a small percentage of the players we treat will reach professional football, but all of them will have a "day after" football and must be prepared for it.
From the agency we take care of all the complementary aspects of football that the players need (tax matters, advice regarding their assets...).
What benefit does the real estate agency service bring to a management company? Do the properties come to you through the agency's own clients?What value does this service provide to your clients?
The real estate agency service, like the insurance brokerage that we also have, are businesses that complement the activity of the agency and that generate synergies with it.
The properties come to us mainly through our regular clients, although since we have been working for so long, many external clients also leave us their properties to sell or rent.
For our clients, what we provide are additional services and confidence to treat them.
In the agency we are characterized by providing a service of the highest quality and we transfer that to complementary services such as real estate and insurance.
What do you think of the new quotas for self-employed workers? Do you think this system benefits self-employed people with low incomes?
The self-employed with incomes below the Minimum Interprofessional Wage have had a hard time since now they are going to have to be registered and pay the self-employed fee no matter what. For the rest, I understand that it is logical to pay contributions based on real income.
The law on business creation and growth has been in force for some time now, have you noticed the increase in the creation of companies due to the benefits it entails?
Not at the moment. The law is from September 2022 and the pandemic and its consequences are still very recent. We do not see excessive enthusiasm for the creation of new companies in Soria, at least for the moment.
What would you say is the potential client in your consultancy? What would you say you are specialized in?
Our clients are very varied and in general have enormous potential because all of them have had the courage to undertake and work hard to move their businesses forward and maintain them in very special circumstances that none of them could have foreseen (I am referring to the pandemic).
We are specialized in tax and labor advice for self-employed workers and companies, in the processing of inheritances, in addition to all procedures with vehicles.
It's been a year since the labor reform came into force, how has this first year of changes in your consultancy gone?
It has been truly crazy, but not only because of the labor reform, but also because of the constant regulatory changes and the countless laws that have been enacted in recent years.The changes are constant and require a titanic effort to keep up to date.
Regarding the labor reform, I consider that it has meant a makeup in terms of the photograph that can be taken from the labor market at a given time (I am referring to the consideration of discontinuous permanent workers as unemployed), but it has not meant a substantial modification in hiring either at a quantitative or qualitative level.
There are sectors such as hospitality or construction - among others - that should have different regulations due to the specific nature of these sectors.
