47Secondly, the one-off occurrence of behaviour extraneous to market logic, like sponsorship, is insufficient to call into question either the economic nature of the activity in question, which has already been recognised with regard to the practice of football by professional clubs (see, to that effect, judgment of 26 January 2005, Piau v Commission, T‑193/02, EU:T:2005:22, paragraph 69) or the use of a private operator in a market economy as a reference framework when assessing the existence of an advantage. As the Commission submits, the existence of the measure at issue at most attests to the fact that investment behaviour extraneous to market logic – assuming it were established – did not obviate the applicant’s need to resort to a State guarantee in order to increase its capital.
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