After changing the scores at the last moment Maria Tato, director of the Spanish candidacy, was charged yesterday. However, as it was slid from the Royal Spanish Football Federation since the scandal jumped on Monday, the scaling that leaves Vigo without World Cup is maintained. In the penultimate classification that was developed, according to the documentation to which the world had access, the Galician city occupied the eleventh place ahead of San Sebastián, but in the last and final one, carried out a day later, as Tato said in an internal report to explain the last minute score change, the anoeta stadium rose in five points. This maneuver left Vigo out when passing to the twelfth position. The candidacy of Spain presented nine venues and 11 stadiums (Madrid and Barcelona contribute two).
The Secretary General of the RFEF, Álvaro de Miguel, and the general director, Manuel Lalinde were those in charge, after reading the aforementioned report commissioned to Tato ,. Both ruled out that Rafael Louzán, current federative president, had something to see in the variation of the scores, as reported by the mayor of Vigo, the socialist Abel Caballero. They also warned that the “Federation will do everything possible because Vigo and Valencia are included” and that “there are headquarters that are now within the candidacy, but they can be out in the future if FIFA believes it convenient.”
According to the report prepared by Tato, the criteria for carrying the baremations were based on those marked by FIFA for other sporting events, such as the 2027 Women’s World Cup, and were adjusted with the contributions of the members of the World Cup Executive Committee, as well as the Supervision, Standardization and Representation Commission of the Higher Sports Council, and of the government agency itself. Specifically, the report details that the following objective criteria were applied: technical project, operability, financial structure and provision of cities.
Always referring to the aforementioned report by Tato, by Miguel and Lalinde they assured that the scores were given by the ceased leader and the other two members of the candidacy commission, former player Fernando Sanz and Jorge Mowinckel, then director of International Relations of the RFEF. Both were fired by Louzán earlier this year.
Tato says that it was Jorge Mowinkel who proposed to raise in five points the assessment of the Anoeta stadium, Mowinkel would have detected that both the Donostiarra stadium and Cornellà had not obtained the maximum score of 20 because they had been framed within the stadiums that needed a minimum intervention to increase the capacity. According to Tato, Mowinkel argued that both the Royal Society stadium and that of Espanyol only needed to make small touch -ups to adapt to the event, so 20 points should be granted to both enclosures. Although the proposal was from Mowinkel, the decision, according to Tato, was collegiate by the three members of the candidacy commission.
“The members of the Committee scored 20 points to the Cornellà-El Prat stadiums and Anoeta Reale Aren Value it with 20 points, ”says the report. This contradicts the versions of Fernando Sanz and Mowinkel, who from the beginning unmotive of the elaboration of that last classification that unraveled Vigo.
At the moment, the olivic city, like Valencia, is still out of the nine venues and nine stages presented by Spain and approved by FIFA despite the little rigor and ignorance to score María Tato and Fernando Sanz that betrayed the audios revealed by the world. At the meeting held on June 25 to score the Spanish cities candidates to host the Maria Tato World Cup came to say: “Let’s go there. We are going to put values in Excel to see what we have left. The first test of the 800 we will do until we fit the result.”
Expressions of this type are those that argue in the Federation to justify the cessation of Tato before the question of why they dispense with it if their work is given good and the sciences he collected, according to De Miguel and Lalinde, with Fernando Sanz and Jorge Mowinkel. “It is a matter of image,” they point out in Las Rozas. The former director made his position available to Rafael Louzán, but finally remembered her cessation after a long meeting.
After the explanations given, he is about to see if Abel Caballero decides to prosecute the choice of venues after proclaiming: “I will do everything the law allows me to defend my city.” One of the reasons that wielded the mayor of Vigo was that his candidacy had low score in the financing section. “Vigo has zero debts and more than 140 million euros saved to finance the headquarters,” said Abel Caballero. In the Federation they explain that the Vigo score is low in the financing section because in their specifications they were left without answering several questions about this matter.
