Other teams were interested in the square but the RFEF but relying on Article 194 of its Regulations, it gave priority to the applicants from the same federation as Reus and the finalists were Andorra and Hospitalet, which finally fell for refusing to pay Reus’ unpaid debt, which amounted to almost half million euros.
With the place already won, Piqué asked Rubiales for an easy group. “If you can avoid putting us in the group with the Catalans, better. The 4 in the group are always the highest level.” The leader reminded him that the criterion was territoriality and the defense answered. “I can imagine, but being in the bottom of the world, like the Balearic Islands, I imagine that placing ourselves in one group or another does not change much. Also, if you make subgroups of 10, the most normal thing is that there are 10 Catalans, so we could get out of there and go to other subgroups”. Rubiales told him that he would take it into account before an insistent Piqué. “Catalonia is the most screwed-up region, that’s why I told you that since you’re not even in Spain, so to speak, you have the freedom to send us to fuck off. But the one in La Rioja, Navarra, Aragón or the Basque Country is more than acceptable. That would be the best area for us,” he said.
