Florentino and Laporta leave the Federation Management Commission

Florentino Pérez and Joan Laporta have left the Management Board of the Spanish Football Federation, as El Confidencial reported and this newspaper has been able to confirm.. Both sent a letter of resignation (very similar) in which they stated that they did so “so as not to interfere in the election process” that will take place in a few months..

Sources consulted affirm that the decision of the presidents of Real Madrid and Barcelona was formalized a few days ago, and these same sources confirm that the reason, however, is the complaint that Miguel Galán, president of CENAFE (National Center for the Training of Coaches of Soccer), against all the members of that Management Board, chaired by Pedro Rocha. A complaint accusing them of prevarication for not having called elections immediately after the resignation of Luis Rubiales on September 10.

According to article 38.1 of the Statutes of the Federation, “if the President ceases for reasons other than the conclusion of his term, the Board of Directors will be constituted as the Management Commission and will call elections to fill the position; whoever is elected will occupy the position by time equal to the time remaining to be fulfilled by the person replaced, the rule provided for in article 23.2 of this ordinance also being applicable in this regard.”. As is public, Pedro Rocha, with the help of the Higher Sports Council, did not call those elections (which would have been held with the current Assembly) and obtained permission from the Government to call complete elections (for Assembly and presidency) in the first quarter Next year.

This compromise is not worth it to Galán and he continues his fight in the courts, starting with the TAD (Sports Arbitration Court), to which the CSD sent the complaint from the president of CENAFE. The TAD has not yet resolved, but in anticipation of some legal problem, the presidents of the two most important clubs in Spain have decided to leave the Management Commission, where they had been since 2018 (Florentino) and 2021 (Laporta).