There has never been a secret president. She wasn’t too cautious after the improbable kiss she gave Jenni Hermoso after Spain won the Women’s World Cup. A kiss for which She badly apologized and had to resign. To arrive Luis Rubiales He rose to the top of Spanish football five years ago by getting 80 votes, beating Juan Luis Larrea who got 56 votes. Angel Villar, Erdogan, who remained in power with an absolutist air for nearly 30 years (1988-2017), until the Soulé operation, a judicial process, opened the door for him to a corruption case. 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, who has almost always played in the Second Division, has lived in noise, moving from Guadix through Mallorca, Lleida, Xerez or Levante to Alicante in May 2018. He gave up on the coach as soon as he arrived just 48 hours before the start of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Julen Lopetegui After announcing to Madrid that they had signed him as a new manager.
rubiales He dismissed the coach harshly and Spain participated in the World Cup as follows: Ferdinand Demir, The person who has to put aside the federation sports director outfit and wear the trainer’s sweatpants every day.
Giving the Super Cup to Saudi Arabia
Rubiales live in conflict. And already practically from the first day he became the head of the FEF. Sports clashes (a shocking farewell to Lopetegui, disagreements with Luis Enrique after the World Cup in Qatar, the ’15 players’ revolt’ a year before Spain planted their second star in Sydney) and, of course, persistent corporate conflicts.
His dialectical quarrels Xavier Thebes, LaLiga’s president fixes it as they are faced with two completely opposite models of sports management. There are also administrative and diplomatic conflicts that arose when the Spanish Super Cup was awarded to Saudi Arabia through the Kosmos company, which assumed the presidency. gerard
These leaked audio recordings 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 already past 12 o’clock and the deal with Saudi Arabia is already solid. I hug you, thank you for everything and I’m here for anything you need.” In September 2019, after closing a deal to Piqué that included a million-dollar commission for former Azulgrana to link the business to the Super Bowl’s new Arab headquarters.
Victim of the “stage hunt”
Being involved in the institutional conflict (he is not known to have ever connected with Thebes or the AFE’s current president, David Aganzo), he also has the ability to eliminate variables including his salary so that it is not linked to so-called self-interest. Madrid and Barça will reach the final of the Super Cup. He lived in the noise and faced it.
“The only thing I’m afraid of is they put cocaine in my car,” Rubiales admitted a little over a year ago, describing that he had fallen victim to “a prepared hunt, a distortion of the truth.” While defending himself against the accusations brought against him regarding the agreement with Saudi Arabia, he claimed that he had stolen information and conversations from his private mobile phone.
re-elected until 2024
“I consider myself a brave man,” he said at the nearly two-and-a-half hour press conference. “You can’t lack the courage to be in my position in the Federation,” said the Federation president, whose term expires in 2013. I knew powerful people would attack me, but I didn’t know they would get information on my phone. He was re-elected in September 2020 as he was the only candidate to run since 2024 after Iker Casillas resigned from going to the polls.
Constant arguments, voices, threats, troubles, and as he himself explained a year ago, he didn’t have a “quiet week” in the chair that Villar had sat in for almost three decades “because I’ve consistently accumulated more than 25 complaints of erosion, wear and tear, and utter disgrace.” campaign”. And there were even family quarrels when his uncle Juan, the chief of staff, reported him before the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor for parties with girls in charge of the Federation, which was immediately denied by this organization.
Rubiales, who boasted of his indestructible demeanor. always managed to survive. But his time is over.
Source: Informacion
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