2023-08-25 00:45:16
Luis Rubiales lost allies yesterday in view of the extraordinary assembly that is being held this morning, where he will assume the seriousness of his behavior by kissing Jenni Hermoso on the mouth, show his repentance and present his resignation as president of the Spanish Football Federation. The five professional teams from Euskadi -Athletic, Real Sociedad, Alavés, Eibar and Amorebieta-, the Basque, Alava and Gipuzkoan Federations condemned the attitude of the federation leader and announced that they will not attend the Las Rozas conclave.
The Biscayan territorial will not be present either, but “for personal reasons”, as its president, Iñaki Gómez Mardones, explained to this newspaper. The leader participated in a videoconference in the morning with his colleagues from the other two territories and refused to join the common text that they prepared condemning. “Rubiales’ behavior is not acceptable. A president should never act like this, but I am not the one to tell him that he must resign ». At this point, Mardones wanted to highlight that he “in five years he has done impeccable management.”
The Basque teams were showing their rejection of Rubiales’ behavior during the day. The president of Athletic, as EL CORREO has learned, will not be in Madrid today. Nor those of Alavés, Eibar and Real. Jokin Aperribay, head of the Gipuzkoan team, was forceful in his condemnation. “He should have resigned,” he said before stating that he was still “horrified” by the kiss to the soccer player and confirming that he will not attend the assembly. “They have summoned her to be applauded.”
The group from Vitoria made its decision public in a brief statement in which the word Rubiales does not appear nor does it mention the case. The president of Eibar, Amaia Gorostiza, opined that Rubiales’ actions “is very serious and must have consequences.” And she regretted that she has managed to keep “a historical event of this magnitude in the background. It cannot represent Spanish sport worldwide », she concluded.
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has Basque football in the Federation assembly. Those of Athletic, Real Sociedad, Alavés, Eibar and Amorebieta; Basque Federation, Zierbena (representing futsal), Santutxu (regional soccer), a player from Bizkerre (women’s soccer) and Gaizka Garitano (representing the coaches).
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The Basque Federation, chaired by Javier Landeta, justified his absence this morning in Madrid because “due to the seriousness of the events and the subsequent management of events”, and threatened to leave the board of directors if the leader does not heed the general clamor that leave your post. He will wait, he says in a statement, “for what happens in the next few hours” and then “a decision will be made on the continuity of our president” in the federal government.
The Álava and Gipuzkoan territories, for their part, literally shared the resounding message of the Basque Federation that puts the majority of football in the autonomous community against the former Levante footballer. The representatives of the three organisms also feel annoyed with Hispaniola. They participated on Monday in a videoconference with presidents of the other territories. “There it was not agreed to request an extraordinary assembly” for today, one of the participants points out to this newspaper. The Federation, however, later indicated that it was convened at the request of the territorial ones. “That has not sat well,” settles the same source.
The assembly is made up of 140 members. Rubiales, the presidents of the 19 regional federations, the representatives of clubs -from the First Division are Athletic, Barça, Betis, Getafe, Mallorca, Osasuna, Real Sociedad, Villarreal, Cadiz, Elche and Rayo Vallecano-, players, referees, coaches… They choose and can remove the president. Euskadi is the only community in the State that has three territorial federations and one regional federation, all four of which are represented on the board.
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