“Whoever becomes president of the RFEF comes out, I want them to have understood the message”

MADRID, 24 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), Víctor Francos, is clear that he should not “say who should be the president of the RFEF”, but he did assure that whoever is elected in a “transparent process” must have ” understood the message” after everything that has happened in recent months and that the winner “will have the respect of the Government of Spain.”

“It is not good for the Government to come in and say who should be president of the RFEF, it is not good for it to act for the benefit or detriment of someone. What I want is for it to be a transparent, clean process and for whoever comes out who has understood the message, for the good of the person themselves,” said Víctor Francos in ‘El Larguero’ on the SER network.

The leader stressed that Pedro Rocha has not “told” him if he is leaving, he has not told me nor has he “asked” him. “He is an affable person, deeply educated, and with me, everything he has told me he has fulfilled, but it is not my role to say whether or not I would like him to appear,” he indicated.

Francos acknowledged that “for many people it would be strange” if Rocha, a person close to Luis Rubiales, could be elected, but he also stressed that there are “democratic procedures.” “Whoever presents and wins will have the respect of the Government of Spain,” he said.

Asked if he believes that Pedro Rocha is going to run, the president of the CSD did not hide that “if they ask you and you say neither yes nor no, you are thinking about it”, while he confirmed that “some outsiders” of The RFEF told him that they wanted to “present themselves.” “I have told them that they had every right in the world to have the same rules of the game. What we are not going to allow are dark things or strange processes,” concluded Francos, who hopes that “if everything goes” as they hope, “between 15 February and the end of March” there will be a new president of the RFEF. “Yes, I have been honest with Pedro Rocha and I have told him that it would seem like a mistake to delay this,” he added.

The leader also confirmed that he has “no news” from either FIFA or the Sports Administrative Tribunal (TAD) about Luis Rubiales, currently suspended by the governing body of world football and that when this suspension ends, if he is not disqualified, ” “it could be disqualified” by the TAD, which still has an “open procedure.” “If he decides that it is serious, (the disqualification) can range from one month to two years,” he explained.

“I’m surprised,” he replied about the fact that he had no news from the TAD in this regard. “I send them polite messages. In a case with such clearly defined facts, in which the parties have given their opinion in public and even the person affected has resigned, it never ceases to surprise me that Rubiales has been harsher with himself than the TAD himself. “, confessed Francos, who made it clear that the former president of the RFEF could run for the federative elections “if no cause of incompatibility or ineligibility is underway.”

On the other hand, after the signing this Monday of the Joint Commission to promote women’s football, he expressed that he is “much less worried” than when he had to go to Oliva (Valencia) to measure the conflict with the internationals, but that he continues ” busy with the changes and the need to make structural modifications in some things in Spanish football that have to continue their path regardless of whether the ‘Oliva Pact’ is a reality today.

Francos highlighted that in the negotiations “there were commitments for structural changes” and that the RFEF must comply with “agreements on professionalization, technicalization or logistical means.” “On the part of the Government we have committed to sending us contributions on the development of issues on equality in the Sports Law that can prevent things from happening such as a Government being left without instruments on an issue as serious as the one we are experiencing,” he added.

“WE ARE VERY CLEAR THAT THE WORLD CUP FINAL SHOULD BE IN SPAIN”

Regarding the 2030 World Cup that Spain will organize together with Portugal and Morocco, the president of the CSD ruled out giving an opinion on which stadium should host the final, but he did remark that the Government is “very clear” that it should be in Spain and that it is therefore that “he is going to fight” and what he is going to “defend.”

“It is what was agreed before Morocco entered the candidacy. I understand that they want it to be in Casablanca, but it will be in Spain, there are immovable things in a candidacy that has been working for two years,” said the president, who declared that they are “fighting to have between nine and eleven headquarters.” “With 11 we are happier than with 10,” he said, confirming his words in an interview in ‘La Voz de Galicia’ that one will be in that community due to its “closeness to Portugal” and for a “series of elements that make quite undisputed that a headquarters is there”.

2023-10-23 23:11:03
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