Blondes? Who is Rubiales?: this is how the national team tries to forget its former president
Normally, taxi drivers are a good thermometer to know what is happening in a city. The taxi drivers. Two of them did not know who was playing today in Los Cármenes. Another was also confused: “When does Spain play here?”
A look at the airport, after 1:30 p.m., gave another idea that people were a little confused about the game.. While the bus waited at a side door of the airfield, there were almost more Civil Guards than fans. From the plane, which moved a lot on landing, turning some of the stomach upside down, an expedition got off where the nerves are still on edge, and where everyone looks askance at the person next to them.. Pedro Rocha, the current president, was not in charge, on whose figure everyone's eyes now rest to know what direction he is going to take, whether the one established by the statutes or the one requested by the Government, who knows if incompatible with respect to that internal regulation. The president did not travel with the absolute team and did so by car to Jaén, where the under-21 team played. Today he will be in Granada.
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Given the resignation of Rubiales on a Sunday night, without prior notice (although there are voices that maintain that there were people in the Federation who did know), they have chosen to pretend that Rubiales does not exist. They don't go so far as to use that thing about Rajoy – “that person you're talking to me about” – but the strategy is to never talk about him again, about that kind of ghost that nevertheless flies over everything that happens. «There must be some knives there…». The phrase is uttered by a travel veteran with the team looking towards the bench, where several members of the expedition, much smaller than usual, are chatting.. There is hardly any news from Rubiales's entourage, although some walk around Granada with the fly behind their ear.
The best example of this interest in ignoring the very existence of Rubiales was Luis de la Fuente's press conference.. As it could not be otherwise, there was interest in knowing what the coach thought about the matter, but there was no way. There were half a dozen questions to Luis de la Fuente about Luis Rubiales and his resignation. The journalists tried to push the envelope to try to ask questions that would not be easy to escape.. What do you think of the resignation? Does it affect the team? What did you think when you found out? And so a good time in the press room. The only striking thing is that he said he had not spoken with the president who appointed him to office, a detail, by the way, that bothered him a lot (that someone reminded him that it was the president who appointed him).
THE SIXTH QUESTION
It was the sixth question about Rubiales that unleashed tension in the room. They told him that if he had spoken to the man who had placed him in the position where he is now. «I have been in the house for 11 years, I am now starting year 12. I've been there for more years than Rubiales. Nobody has given me anything, let's be clear, what I have I have earned.. I am a grateful man to all the people who have helped me, but that's it,” and at the journalist's insistence, he was curt: “No, I didn't talk to him.”. Now, in theory, with the FIFA suspension over and with him gone, he could now. But not.
At that moment, the press officer of the Spanish team spoke: «Six questions about the resignation of Luis Rubiales have been answered.. The coach has already said what he had to say and if anyone has any more questions, that do not have to do with the resignation, please go ahead.. Because he has already answered six questions about Rubiales in the run-up to a match.. The silence could be cut. There were more questions about other aspects. Inconsequential.
The objective, then, is not to talk about Rubiales again, who by the way is from Motril, province of Granada. A city that is going to fill the stadium tonight even if the taxi drivers are going to something else. Perhaps because of the memory of Sabina in the bullring.