The Government will intervene in the FEF to hold elections in September | The truth

Pedro Rocha, former interim president of the FEF and the only candidate for the presidency, will not be suspended this Thursday by the CSD board of directors, but he will not be the successor of Luis Rubiales at the head of the federative body. The Government's intervention has the approval of FIFA, so that a committee for normalization, supervision and representation of the FEF is created, similar to the one established in Italy when the case of sports corruption broke out in the transalpine country in 2006. for influence in the appointment of referees and for illegal betting.

«It is unthinkable that the representative of Spanish football for the Euro Cup or for the Olympic Games could be a person investigated in a criminal case and under suspicion by the TAD for alleged disciplinary infractions classified as very serious. As a country, we cannot allow this to happen,” proclaimed last week the Secretary of State for Sports, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, in the face of the latest scandal that shakes the FEF and the lack of control that affects Spanish football.

“The Government will act with rigor and seriousness, within the law, in line with the seriousness of the events,” the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Pilar Alegría, insisted on Wednesday on the eve of the meeting of the board of directors of the CSD to vote on whether or not to provisionally suspend Rocha. The man from Extremadura threatened to denounce Rodríguez Uribes and the TAD for prevarication if he was suspended by the CSD or disqualified by the sports court.

The new supervisory body of the FEF, supervised by the Government itself, would be made up of three people: a former international soccer player and probably also a former coach – the Executive will propose the position to Vicente del Bosque -, a representative of women's soccer and a lawyer specializing in sports law. They would be the ones who would pilot the FEF until after the European Championship in Germany and the Olympic Games, so that elections could be held in September, which must be called by Rocha and the managing commission, which would be provisional and would become the board of directors.

After Rocha was charged in the 'Brody operation' for alleged corruption in the FEF during Rubiales' administration and the TAD opened a file against him for a very serious infraction, the CSD, although it did not suspend him, has already definitively stopped the Extremaduran's aspirations for the federative presidency. The CSD board of directors provisionally suspended Ángel Villar in 2017 when the then president of the FEF was in provisional prison and, although it will not adopt the same measure with respect to Pedro Rocha, it has opened the door to a federative intervention and the call for new elections, now without the candidacy of the considered dolphin of Rubiales.

With 77% support

Apart from Rocha, filed by the TAD for not having called elections in six months and having assumed functions that did not correspond to him as interim president of the FEF, such as the renewal of the contract of the coach, Luis de la Fuente, the manager was not provisionally suspended either. of the FEF. All the members of said commission, previously chaired by Pedro Rocha himself and currently by Rafael del Amo, were also subject to disciplinary proceedings for very serious misconduct, for having exceeded their duties.

Rocha does not currently have any managerial position, after having also resigned as president of the Extremadura Football Federation to run for election to the FEF, whose general assembly supported him with 107 endorsements (77% of the census) to be the sole candidate, since that neither Carlos Herrera nor Eva Parera achieved the required minimum of 21. Against Pedro Rocha, Carlos Herrera only achieved five endorsements, from Betis, Villarreal, Getafe, Rayo Vallecano and Ponferradina.

“I'm still waiting for all the others who promised their endorsement and who are now whistling, hiding, doubting, cowering, afraid, due to the pressure from Tebas and Rocha,” the journalist recently stated, when, with the Extremadura native cornered by sports justice and ordinary, nine territorial presidents have already distanced themselves from the only candidate to occupy the position of Rubiales and have placed themselves in the hands of the CSD in the face of the intervention of the FEF by the Government.