Pedro Rocha, recently proclaimed president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and accused in Operation Brodie, fired Albert Luque, sports director, and Rubén Rivera, marketing director, on Monday afternoon, according to reports Relief and this newspaper has confirmed. For both, the prosecutor requests a year and a half in prison for alleged coercion of international player Jennifer Hermoso. For Luis Rubiales the prison request is three years. According to the prosecution’s accusation, once the non-consensual kiss of former president Luis Rubiales to Hermoso occurred and “given the personal and professional consequences that could result, the accused [Rubiales]by himself and in connivance with the rest of the accused [Luque y Rivera]”, began to exert constant and repeated acts of pressure directly on the player Jennifer Hermoso and through her family and friends with the aim of publicly justifying and approving the kiss that Luis Rubiales gave her against her will.” Luque and Rivera would have exerted the alleged coercion during the trip to Ibiza in which the players celebrated the title of world champions achieved in Sydney a few days before.
Both leaders had already been removed from their positions, but Rocha did not dare to fire them before so that they would not accuse him of exceeding his duties, which is why the Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) opened a file against him for very serious misconduct. which is still pending to be resolved by filing or a provisional suspension by the Higher Sports Council (CSD) or a definitive one by the sports court itself. With the dismissal of Luque, the Spanish team will go to the Eurocup without a sports director. Coach Luis de la Fuente is not worried about attending the big European football event in Germany without the figure of a sports director because he considers that all the logistics work has already been done
The purge that began on Monday also took out Pedro González Segura, director of the RFEF’s legal services, and José Javier Jiménez, known as Jot, both detained within the framework of the aforementioned Operation Brodie, which investigates irregularities in the federation’s contracts during Rubiales’ mandate and in which alleged crimes of unfair administration, money laundering, corruption in business and belonging to criminal organization. Both González Segura and Jota are involved in the alleged irregular awards to the construction company Gruconsa of the renovation of the La Cartuja stadium and the remodeling of the federative headquarters of the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas. At Gruconsa, Ángel González Segura, brother of the former federation leader, works as zone delegate. Rocha, who is also being investigated in the case, has not applied the presumption of innocence that he does grant to those fired.
Representation
The purge initiated by Rocha, who is in Bangkok to attend the 74th FIFA Congress, will continue in the coming days. As president, he is the highest representative of the RFEF before international institutions. He remains to see what will happen when the Higher Sports Council finishes outlining the Normalization, Representation and Supervision commission chaired by Vicente del Bosque and was presented with great fanfare by the Minister of Culture and Sports Pilar Alegría. Until now, the only known appointment to make up the aforementioned commission is that of Del Bosque. The intention of Alegría and the president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, is that the former 2010 world champion selector will represent Spain both in the boxes of the Euro Cup as well as the Paris Olympic Games, which will be held next. “With the creation of this Commission, the CSD preserves the general interest, in order to restore the reputation, good name and image of Spanish football and complete the electoral process with a renewed Assembly for the period 2024-2028,” he assured. Uribes. For now, Rocha is the one who continues to represent Spanish football.
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