Last Saturday the appointment of Reyes Bellver became official as the new Women’s Soccer Director of the RFEF. A position that is an electric chair because five people have held that position in the last six years: Lola Martelli, Iñaki Mikeo, María Tato, … Ana Álvarez and Markel Zubizarreta.
Who is Reyes Bellver? Sevillana, more bética than Gordillo, has developed his work in the world of sports law. In 2023 she was appointed referee of the Arbitral Sports Court (TAS), for years she has been president of the Madrid Sports Law Association and has always had an exceptional professional relationship with expert lawyers in sports law around the world. Among them Emilio García Silvero, current legal head of FIFA.
In 2011 Reyes Bellver met Gorka Villar, when the son of the former president of the RFEF began working as a legal director for the South American Confederation of Football. He accompanied him in Sport Advisers, a firm owned by Gorka specialized in consulting and legal advice in the international sports field. Remember that the son of Ángel María Villar is one of the defendants in the Soule case, the first related to the RFEF that was denounced. A case that is in the courts pending oral trial.
The car reports that at least since 2009, former president Villar, in collusion with his son, would have imposed some of the rival teams of the Spanish team to play friendly matches. They would have done it with the detriment of the Federation and in order to benefit Gorka Villar, through the Sport Advisers company, by obtaining contracts from the federations benefited from these meetings.
Reyes Bellver, so close to Gorka Villar, begins his ‘reign’ in a week curdled with judicial proceedings against leaders and former RFEF leaders. Yesterday, the trial of Jenni Hermoso opened, we also expect the Supreme Court’s judgment on the disqualification of Rafael Louzán and in a few days the trial of the Haiti case also begins.
What is a reality is that the new head of female federative football has been lately in all sauces. She presented a candidacy with María Teixidor to preside over League F and has been vice president of the Futpro majority union. In fact, just a few days ago he was present at the signing of the second collective agreement of women’s football with Amanda Gutiérrez, president of the union, and was part of the missing mixed commission (formed by the CSD, the RFEF and Futpro), devised by The then Secretary of State Victor Francos for the impulse of Spanish women’s football. She has also worked as a lawyer and advising on several players signings.
Bellver has three hot potatoes in which he will have to demonstrate his ability (or not) of resolution and professionalism. The first, the payment of 2.5 million agreed according to the collaboration agreement between the RFEF and the F. League is something that is stuck and that, given the critical economic situation of the F League,, it requires an urgent solution. Why is it stuck? Simply because the RFEF wants to give the money directly to the clubs, not to the F League and that this is only the payment gateway. The second is if Reyes Bellver, who has professionally been on the side of the players in the conflict of 15, will respect now and support Montse’s decision I took out of the calls to historical and emblematic figures such as Jenni Hermoso and Irene Paredes.
Bellver’s third and last open war is something that nobody remembers, read amateur women’s football. Some managers of the F League, former managers of the Women’s Soccer Club associations, ‘have forgotten’ of non -professional teams, although they presume the growth of licenses. But that is a false step because it is a growth without foundations, without plan, which would need much more attention and a strategic ‘ad hoc’ project to be real and sustainable over time.
Good luck kings, you will need it.
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