In September 2020, this newspaper held a meeting with the president of the Higher Sports Council at the time, Irene Lozano. Just a few months after the first wave of the coronavirus, the leader expressed her dissatisfaction with the permanent conflict between the president of the Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, and the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas. She had had to deal with them a lot, in endless meetings to try to resume the championship, stopped by the pandemic. An entente was reached, the so-called Viana pact, but what Lozano could never understand were the ways in which they treated each other and the ways of verbalizing her dissensions both in public and in private. Some niceties considered in the government leadership as more typical of past times and that did not match the values that sport should transmit in modern times.
Lozano made a banner against homophobia in the world of soccer and met two managers who metaphorically challenged each other to go to the playground as if they were children. Yesterday Lozano herself, now director of Casa Árabe, called for Rubiales' dismissal in a tweet and stated that the CSD can do it.
Months later, in August 2021, in Tokyo, where he traveled to the Olympic soccer final, Rubiales, who was photographed with the Olympic canoeing runners-up, wasted no time in censuring Thebes, then because of Messi's departure from the League. These episodes are worth to verify that certain attitudes of Rubiales have been disgusting in the heights for a long time.
The one who was a left back as a footballer took the federative chair in May 2018 and his stage can be classified as a move.
His declared desire to ventilate a Federation long dominated by an Ángel Villar who left office amid corruption cases has been denied by different issues that have put him on the waterline. One of those who raised the most dust was that of his agreement with Gerard Piqué to take the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia. The audios between the two leaked through El Confidencial revealed a million-dollar deal for moving the tournament to an undemocratic country and put on the table a relationship between the leader and the then defense. Rubi and Geri and alleged commissions involved in a case that is in court.
Rubiales has also had a dispute with his uncle, Juan Rubiales, fired by the Federation for leaking information as chief of staff and who accused the president of staging orgies and paying for them with federal money. The dismissal was considered admissible by justice. In this swampy terrain Rubiales has been moving, who received 371,000 euros for the charge in 2022. He is now on the ropes for his kiss to Jennifer Hermoso. And it is that within women's football the president has starred in more than one controversial episode. Or do you not remember how he did not deliver the medals of the Spanish Super Cup to the Barça players?
