Felipe Sánchez temporarily assumes the Integrity responsibilities of the RFEF

2023-09-25 19:12:48

The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) announced this Monday that Felipe Sánchez Pedreño temporarily assumes the responsibilities of Integrity and Child Protection of the organization, after having dispensed with Miguel García Caba to carry out that position.

Sánchez Pedreño, responsible for the Global Training and Awareness Program aimed at protecting Spanish football in the RFEF, will be the new person responsible for Integrity until the completion of the electoral process that must be carried out after the resignation as president of Luis Rubiales.

Last week the RFEF confirmed that it had decided to dispense with the services of Andrew Fields as secretary general and Miguel García Caba as director of Integrity, after the claims made by the players of the senior team for the areas headed by both to be restructured, as well as the women’s football organizational chart, the presidential cabinet and the communication and marketing area.

Camps’ functions in the representative sphere as secretary of the governing and representative bodies have been assumed by the director of the presidential cabinet, Elvira Andresand the executives Alfredo OlivaresDirector of Competitions.

After the resignation of Luis Rubiales on the 10th, the RFEF board, chaired on an interim basis by Pedro Rocha Since FIFA temporarily suspended the first, it was established as a management board until elections were held. The organization has requested the Higher Sports Council (CSD) hold them in the first quarter of 2024.

Luis Rubiales resigned on Sunday, August 10 after being temporarily suspended by FIFA for his behavior in the final of the Women’s World Cup on August 20, in which Spain won the title, and being investigated by the National Court for crimes of sexual assault and coercion against the player Jenni Hermoso, after the complaint that the Prosecutor’s Office filed against her for the kiss she gave the soccer player during the medal ceremony after the World Cup final in Sydney.

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Rubiales testified before Judge Francisco de Jorge on the 15th, denying all the accusations against him and this Monday a brother and a friend of Jenni Hermoso did so, who ratified her statement when she formalized her complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office and assured that It was not a consensual act and he was pressured to publicly justify what happened.

On the 28th, some RFEF charges are summoned to testify.