There was never a secret president. After the unacceptable kiss he gave Jenni Hermoso after Spain won the Women’s World Cup, that’s not common sense at all. To arrive Luis Rubiales five years ago at the pinnacle of Spanish football Defeating Juan Luis Larrea, who received 56 votes after receiving 80 votes, ended the internship that led to the departure of Ángel Villar, who had been in absolute power for almost 30 years (1988-2017), to the judicial process – operation Soulé, up to a trial. corruption- opened the door for him. This is where the former president of the AFE (Spanish Footballers Association) head of the FEF (Spanish Football Federation) comes in.
Since then, this former professional player has lived on, who moved from Guadix to Alicante through Mallorca, Lleida, Xerez or Levante in May 2018 and is almost always in the Second Division. noise laden. On arrival and just 48 hours before the start of the 2018 World Cup in Russia, selector abandoned Julen Lopetegui After announcing that they had signed Madrid as a new coach.
Rubiales sacked the coach harshly, and Spain went to the World Cup with Fernando Hierro, who as the federation’s sporting director was forced to leave the team and wear the coach’s sweatpants from one day to the next.
Giving the Super Cup to Saudi Arabia
rubies living in conflict. And already, de facto, from the first day he became president of the FEF. Sports conflict (goodbye shaky Lopetegui, disagreements with Luis Enrique after the World Cup in Qatar, the ’15 players’ rebellion’ a year before Spain planted their second star in Sydney) and of course persistent institutional conflict.
They dialectical fights javier thebesLaLiga’s chairman pins it down as they face two completely opposite sports management models. And added to that are management and diplomatic conflicts, as evidenced by the awarding of the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia through the Kosmos chaired by Gerard Piqué.
These leaked voices revealed the complicity between the leader who was born in the Canary Islands and grew up in Motril (Granada) and the Barça player of the time. “Back, congratulations. And I’m not talking about yesterday’s great game or your goal. It’s past 12 o’clock and the deal with Saudi Arabia is already solid. A hug, thank you for everything and anything you need is here for you,” he said. Rubiales in September 2019 Pique after closing deal with one million dollar commission for ex-azulgrana to combine the business with the new Arab headquarters of the Super Cup.
Victim of a “stage hunt”
Settled in institutional strife (he is not known to have had any contact with Thebes nor with David Aganzo, the current president of AFE), he is also talented Eliminate variables that include your salary so that it is not linked to a so-called personal interest in Madrid and Barça’s reaching the Super Cup final. He lives in the noise and faces it.
“The only thing I’m afraid of is they put cocaine in my car.He came to confession a little over a year ago when he accused Rubiales of being the victim of “a crafted hunt, falsification of the truth”, the result of a “mafia” stealing information and conversations from his private cell phone while defending himself. against the charges brought against him.
Re-elected until 2024
“I am a brave man“Later, lasting nearly two and a half hours before the press, he said: “You cannot lack the courage to be in my position in the Federation. I knew powerful people would attack me, but I didn’t know they would get information on my phone.” The candidate running to the polls after Iker Casillas’ resignation.
Constant arguments, voices, threats, troubles and as he himself explained a year ago, he didn’t “have a quiet week” in that chair that Villar has been in for almost three decades because I’ve accumulated more than 25 complaints from a continuous campaign of erosion, wear and tear. and total loss of reputation.” And even family feuds, because his uncle Juan, who was the chief of staff, accused him before the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor. Parties with the girls in charge of the federationsomething that is immediately rejected by this entity.
Rubiales has always survived. Now, this unacceptable kiss to Jenni Hermoso puts her in another sensitive situation.