The TAD delays the Government’s plans to disqualify Rubiales

2023-08-29 00:09:29

Updated Tuesday, August 29, 2023 – 00:09

The seven members of the court need more time to decide whether to initiate the file for “very serious misconduct” necessary to remove the president suspended by FIFA

The president of the CSD, Víctor Francos.EFERFEF The territorial presidents request the resignation of Luis Rubiales Rubiales Case The Prosecutor of the National Court opens an investigation and asks Jenni Hermoso if she wants to join the complaint

“You should have left on Friday.” This is how forceful the president of the Superior Sports Council (CSD), Victor Francosif it came across Luis Rubiales. His decision to become president has complicated the entire process. He forces the Government to force his disqualification and the RFEF to erase his imprint quickly, two processes that are not easy as was demonstrated this Monday. The bureaucracy and the guarantees that must be met have made it more difficult than desired to separate Rubiales from Spanish football.

The “provisional suspension” for 90 days from FIFA It is still the only measure that separates the Granada from the Federation because the CSD continues to hope that the Administrative Court of Sport (TAD) rule on the complaint that he raised. The urgency with which the Government wanted to act ran into the times of the seven jurists – four appointed at the proposal of the CSD itself and another three from the sports federations – who had to decide whether to open a file on Rubiales for “very serious misconduct.” They need this to be the typification that is applied by the kiss to Jenni Beautiful and to the touching of genitals in the box to be able to disable it. However, in yesterday’s telematic meeting of the administrative body, they should not have seen with such clarity the legal foundations that the CSD raised. Although they brought up their usual meeting from Wednesday to Monday, they arrived at midnight without resolution and with the need for more documentation on which to lean. That forced Víctor Francos to appear in the middle of the afternoon with very little to say. There was no ‘punishment’ to announce..

The president of the CSD appeared before the press without knowing if the agreement of the territorial barons of the RFEF, which arrived at eleven o’clock at night, was “up to the demands of society and Spanish football.” And he also had no news of what the TAD’s decision would be. «I don’t know any members, I haven’t talked to anyone, I don’t know if they are deliberating or not, just that they are meeting. I can only say that if they initiate the file for a very serious misconduct, the CSD will act», he sentenced. Although the wish would have been to be able to act this Monday, in the Government they are clear that they must be cautious. The resolution of the TAD can be appealed by Rubiales in the contentious-administrative court and nobody wants to give him the chance to be a martyr.

Nor did Franco know if the disqualification of the Government would be joined by the disapproval of the Federation or if there would be a restructuring of the selections after the images in the Assembly. Vice President Yolanda Díaz had requested the dismissal of Jorge Vilda and Luis de la Fuente, but the socialist wanted to be cautious. «There has never been a government that decides the coaches. What I can say as Víctor Francos is that I don’t like applause. I did not like what was said in the Assembly or what was applauded. But the consequences have to be said by the Federation », he clarified.

Nor does he agree with the leader of Sumar about the slowness of the CSD to remove Rubiales. “We have to be very rigorous. It is not fair to say that we have acted later than FIFA. They are a private organization and we are a rule of law. FIFA could have acted on Tuesday, why not? For responsibility as the Government of Spain, “said the president of the CSD.

In what was blunt was the damage to the image of football caused by Rubiales’s kiss and the management of the crisis it generated. In contact with FIFA, the president of the CSD sees problems for the Spanish candidacy, with Portugal and Morocco, for the 2030 World Cup: «I don’t like to cheat. Two weeks ago we were better offbut we are a stubborn government ».