In addition to the worries that dragged from the preseason, Zinedine Zidane asked these days about Dani Carvajal . The right back is one of those harmed by the penultimate awkward episode of Spanish football. He and five other First Division players , including Dani Parejo , the Valencia captain, will not be able to debut in the championship this weekend due to bureaucratic problems. All of them saw in the last game of the previous tournament a fifth yellow that in theory separated them from the start of the new season. However, at the end of July, the Delegate Commission of the Royal Spanish Football Federation approved a series of regulatory changes among which the pardon of the players sanctioned for the first day by accumulation of cards stood out. The body chaired by Luis Rubiales announced with its usual communicative vigor a striking modification very well received, logically, by all affected clubs.

However, the change cannot be effective as it has not been processed within the appropriate deadlines. The teams involved have asked LaLiga and the Federation about the matter all week, without obtaining any positive response. Both point to the Higher Sports Council , last instance that must approve any type of regulatory variation in the regulations of any federation. A rather cumbersome process that does not depend on a firm without more, but takes time, as with any new law that is passed in other public areas.

The list of 'pardoned without forgiveness'

  • Real Madrid : Carvajal
  • Real Sociedad : Llorente and Elustondo
  • Valencia : Parejo and Gayà
  • Getafe : Maksimovic
  • Oviedo : Jimmy
  • Las Palmas : Lemos
  • Deportivo : Pedro

The CSD was suddenly marked yesterday as guilty of this bureaucratic slump that is going to leave Real Madrid, for example, without its right side in the league premiere in Vigo next Saturday. Or the Real Sociedad, without its two head offices: Elustondo and Llorente . But the government agency headed by María José Rienda defended itself with solid arguments, directly showing the legal requirements that a change of regulation requires. It is not anything. The whim of Rubiales or another Federation president is not enough. «If they wanted the pardon to be effective at this beginning of the season, they should have proposed it a long time ago , not two weeks after the start of LaLiga ...», CSD sources point out, while remembering that the modifications to the regulations , however small, a collegial body made up of members of different organizations (representatives of the General State Administration, the Autonomous Communities, Local Entities, Federations, the Legal Service of the State State...).

Reports are made, the legality of the proposed change is analyzed, there are meetings, signatures ... Bureaucracy, in short, that takes time. Yesterday, before the calls of the injured clubs, the Federation and LaLiga took the opportunity to throw the tackle to the head once again , engaged as they are in the constant combat that grips Spanish football. In the CSD they look towards both. The Rubiales-led entity is questioning to propose (and publicize) a measure of impossible compliance at the only moment that is in force (the first day of the League). And the one governed by Javier Thebes reminds him that he is still waiting for his report on the matter in question.

Therefore, the pardon will be of no use, and will be already at the beginning of the 2020/21 season when the players enter clean , without dragging penalties for yellow accumulation.

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