Rafael Louzán took a crowd bath in his first assembly as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation and the consequent sentence of seven years of disqualification to hold public office that had imposed the National Court of Pontevedra. “Thank you all for your trust, there are situations that you have to live that are not easy, time has proved us right,” the Galician leader started. Behind him, Javier Tebas, with the label that distinguishes him as vice president of the entity. The image of Thebes, while the treasurer Eduardo Bandrés explained the details of the accounts, was the meridian example of the contrasts of the alliance between the League and the Federation. Bandrés, in an assembly chaired by Rubiales, was very
This first Assembly of Louzán, convened in an extraordinary way, 12 less than that of 2024, and also approved the 378,512 euros gross that the president will charge. Louzán has maintained the 50% reduction that established his predecessor, the disabled Pedro Rocha, compared to the 736,000 that Luis Rubiales received.
The Assembly had a marked economic character and Louzán announced a cut promoted by UEFA with respect to a game of 10,000 million euros for non -professional football. From now on that money will stop professional clubs, which made some of the assembly members representing amateur football twist. “We have to look for income,” said Louzán, who pointed to the centralized marketing of the television rights of the Copa del Rey through LaLiga, who left Rubiales accessed the presidency.
Under the mandate of Louzán, as was in Rubiales, it is also essential amateur. Under the title “Who wins with the internationalization of the Spanish Super Cup?”, A video was presented in which curiously, the name of the country that tries to bleach its image through millionaire investments in the large Sports events. Louzán himself also referred to “that country” in a later intervention. The feeling that the omission was transmitted was that of not highlighting Saudi Arabia after the harassment and the exit of the Yeda stadium that put Louzán in a tighten and profile of the seriousness of what happened.
Another point of the agenda was the modification of statutes. During the electoral campaign and if the Supreme Court ratified the disqualification sentence, Louzán’s advisors advised him to modify article 19.4 that prevented access to the governing bodies to any person uninhabited for public office. Before knowing the failure of the Supreme, there were presidents of territorials who told him it was better not to make that change “because it was something ugly.” Absolved in the crime of prevarication, this change is no longer necessary, although it can be addressed in the future, as Louzán suggested.
The statutory changes that the assembly members approved have to do with the Code of Good Governance that recently approved the Higher Sports Council (CSD) and some points of the Sports Law, including the one that prevents active athletes from entering commercial relations with the Federation as happened in the case of Piqué and the Arabia Super Cup. In reference to good governance, Louzán launched a barrage to the president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, at the expense of the Code of Good Governance promoted by the government agency. “I give advice that I don’t have. 45 days ago we have contacted the CSD and we have not had communication yet, ”Louzán snapped.
The Galician leader wanted to highlight the change he intends to undertake in federative structures and management through a Manida phrase over the years. “Here you say a lot about ‘This is always done so’. From now on they will be done otherwise. ” Among the novelties presented for more transparent management, the creation of three committees for the economic procedure manual that avoids what happened with some contracts and concessions during the previous times was approved. The new general director Manuel Lalinde presented a first committee to approve expenses of between 20,000 euros and 250,000 composed of house technicians, another of 250,000 euros to 1,000,000 euros formed with a mixture of house technicians and members of the Board Directive and a third for expenses greater than 1,000,000 euros.
The latter replaces the former Economic Commission that Pedro Rocha presided and that cost him the imputation in Operation Brodie when he presided over the commission because under his direction the contracts were signed to take the Super Cup of Spain to Saudi Arabia and for the Remodeling of the Cartuja Stadium with the Gruconsa company, in which a brother of the Director of the RFEF Legal Services worked. Cases like this are the ones that Louzán intends to avoid, to which a territorial baron predicts a lasting presidency “if he does not make the mistakes of his predecessors.”
