The referees continue the strike

The new meeting held this Tuesday between representatives of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the Professional Women's Football League (LPFF) to call off the referees' strike that prevented the dispute on the first day of the League ended without an agreement between the parts.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
14 September 2022 Wednesday 09:02
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The referees continue the strike

The new meeting held this Tuesday between representatives of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and the Professional Women's Football League (LPFF) to call off the referees' strike that prevented the dispute on the first day of the League ended without an agreement between the parts. Pablo Vilches, general director of the F League, assured that the "'no' was resounding." “There has been no agreement. We thought that yesterday there had been a rapprochement, but no”, he expressed after the meeting held at the federation's headquarters, La Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas.

The positions between both parties remain distant by not agreeing on the economic amounts that the referees should receive. The LPFF proposes 25,000 euros per year for female referees while the collegiate ask for an amount close to 50,000 euros, a figure that represents a sixth of what First Division referees receive and a third of what Second Men's referees receive.

This strike also threatens the Copa de la Reina matches between Real Unión de Tenerife-Levante Las Planas (today, 8:00 p.m.) and Bizkerre-Alhama (tomorrow, 7:00 p.m.) and those who do not The appointed referees will attend.

Neither of the two top leaders of both organizations, Beatriz Álvarez Mesa and Luis Rubiales, were present at the meeting this Tuesday at the Ciudad del Fútbol in Las Rozas. At that negotiating table was Yolanda Parga, responsible for women's arbitration; Ana Álvarez, director of women's football; Miguel María García Caba, deputy secretary, and Pedro González, from the legal department, on behalf of the RFEF; and Pablo Vilches, CEO of the Women's League, and Santiago Nebot and Irene Aguiar, from the competition's legal services.

This meeting took place one day after another that took place in the Higher Sports Council, in which the top leader of the CSD José Manuel Franco, the general director Albert Soler and the cabinet director Juan María Fernández Carnicer were present.

The situation of persistent blockade between both parties has led the CSD to intercede again to exercise its role as mediator. Shortly after learning that no agreement had been reached at the morning meeting in Las Rozas, he called the representatives of the F League and the RFEF to a meeting at the CSD headquarters, just like yesterday afternoon , at 5:00 p.m., to "seek an urgent and permanent agreement for a peaceful start to professional women's competition."