MADRID, 11 Abr. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the Higher Sports Council (CSD), José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, said that “it would not be responsible” for him to say whether Pedro Rocha can stand for election to the presidency of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) if the Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) opens a file, and insisted that this decision is “sovereign”, and that “the CSD does not tell the TAD what to do.”
Pending the decision of the TAD on the possible opening of a file against the former president of the Management Board of the RFEF, Rodríguez Uribes did not want to anticipate what would happen in the event that Rocha were charged, and has stressed respect for the sovereignty of both the TAD and the federation’s own Assembly that will elect its new head.
“The CSD is going to be absolutely neutral. My obligation is to always be neutral as when Spanish teams play against each other. Let the best win, let them compete in a good fight. Our position is to set the rules… From there, let them play and let them compete, and let the best win,” he said after attending the COE to present journalist Alfredo Relaño’s book ‘366 stories and more from the Olympic Games that you should know’.
Uribes expressed his desire that in the RFEF, and in the rest of the sports federations that are also immersed in electoral processes, “people who have a vocation for public service” and “doing things well” who work “for the general interest” win. and that there is never any suspicion of lack of cleanliness”.
“If there are one, two or three candidates, it is a sovereign decision of the Assembly and we cannot say what they should do and how many endorse and who not. We have set the standard and if there is any type of decision this afternoon by the TAD, it is also a sovereign decision in this sense. The CSD does not tell the TAD what to do. Therefore, when we have everything starting tomorrow, we will see what the situation is and we will always work appropriately,” he indicated.
In this sense, the president of the CSD declared that he has “scrupulous respect” for the decision that the TAD may adopt. “We cannot advance anything. Beyond that, beyond legal, if it seems moral to me that it be presented…? I should not make moral judgments in my role,” he insisted.
“DECISIONS ARE AUTONOMOUS”
Rodríguez Uribes once again insisted on the need for the RFEF to “constructively get out of this ‘impasse’ as soon as possible, and for Spanish football to be what it should be”, recalling the successes of the Spanish teams in the Champions League and the titles recently achieved by the women’s team.
“That is our sport, that is our football, and that is what we have to begin to make visible with the help of everyone, but, in any case, those two decisions are autonomous, sovereign,” he stressed.
Uribes stressed that “the rule of law is working.” “There has been an action in the RFEF by the Civil Guard, through the UCO, by a judge from the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office. It is a process that has begun and it is a context, which we obviously do not like. The law must prevail, the laws, that is the true relevance of things,” he said.
In his opinion, there are “suspicions” that “things were done wrong.” “An electoral process has begun that FIFA has endorsed and that we also consider to be a path that must be opened in compliance with the rules, with transparency. We have to move forward so that in the end the Spanish Football Federation, facing the Eurocup and the Olympic Games will be strengthened and regenerated,” said Rodríguez Uribes.
2024-04-11 14:07:31
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