The RFEF fires its communications director despite opposition from the players

2023-09-29 20:28:54

This Friday, the president of the management of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) informed the person who was the organization’s communications director of his dismissal. Pablo García-Cuervo. A cessation that occurs as a consequence of the structural changes promised in the RFEF and that it is carried out despite the express opposition from the players internationals directed by Luis de la Fuente.

Her dismissal, reported by ‘El Mundo’ and confirmed by this newspaper, is the third that has occurred since Rocha took the reins of the RFEF, after the resignation of Rubiales, and responds to the demands of the international players, reflected in the ‘Pact of Oliva’, of changes occurring in the communications department.

Before García-Cuervo, Rubiales’ general secretary and right-hand man, Andreu Camps, was dismissed; and the person responsible for integrity, Miguel García Caba. This same Friday it had become known that the former communications director had been called to testify as a witness in the National audience for the Rubiales casealong with the coach Luis de la Fuente and four other federation employees.

The possible dismissal of García-Cuervo has been on the table for several weeks, as he is ultimately responsible for the entity’s communication and, therefore, for Jenni Hermoso’s statements about Rubiales’ kiss that the RFEF sent to Efe the same night. of the facts and that the soccer player claims not to have spoken.

Aware of the possibility of his dismissal, heavyweights from the senior men’s team had approached Rocha, through some of the captains, to ask him to save García-Cuervo from burning, since he was a person of the greatest confidence in the locker room. The pressure from the internationals, however, has not been enough to save his head.

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The Asturian journalist had five years working at the RFEFin which he entered with Rubiales to be the press chief of the Spanish team, replacing Paloma Antoranz, a member of the Federation who went on to be in charge (still does) of the communication of the lower teams.

In December 2021, Rubiales decided to remove the person who was communications director, Marisa Gonzalez, appointing her director of the corporate social responsibility department. García-Cuervo was then promoted to the position that he has been holding until this Friday, when Rocha informed him of his dismissal.