"Say you did it to yourself on the street."

Laura is 15 years old and until a couple of months ago she played soccer in the

Móstoles URJC

female cadet

.

Until one day she injured her foot while training and her mother decided to take her to the hospital.

That's where her little nightmare began, the family says.

A story similar to the one told by several footballers from the Community of Madrid in recent times.

This weekend, grassroots and amateur football from the capital returns to the scene after

Filomena's

passage

with the

fields still recovering from snow, ice and dirt and with a tense controversy surrounding the health insurance of the

Madrid Federation

which increases parental concern.

Laura

, our protagonist, was injured in a sports venue in the province, so health care must be provided by the Federation's insurance.

Surely last summer he changed companies, abandoning the traditional

Mupresfe

that covers all Spanish football and is the only community to hire a different coverage.

And it is at this point, in parallel to the complaints and incidents that are claimed, when the controversy has grown between sides and candidates to govern soccer in the region, with February 9 as the date of the elections to his presidency.

A discussion in which the young soccer players are in the middle. "The girl was in pain and the mother took her to the hospital. Nobody had told her to go somewhere in particular," Javier, Laura's father, explains to this newspaper. angry with one of the theories that responded to him in the club: "I called the club and they told me that if I went to social security, I had to say that I had done it on the street."

The other version reasons it

Alfredo Gonzalez

, president of the

Móstoles URJC

and vice president of the Madrid Federation who until recently presided

Paco Diez

, now a candidate: "If you go to Social Security then you will have to say that it has been done in the park, because the Federation has insurance and you must inform the person who is paying it."

Meanwhile, Javier, the father, denounces that "it seems that they were not insured." Those responsible for the Federation argue for the impossibility of processing the coverage of all footballers at the exact moment of the start of training.

"He

Móstoles URJC

, for example, it has a thousand players and it is impossible to enter a thousand licenses at the same time, so we start training and we do not have the insurance, "explains González." Between which one signs, the mother, the father ... We have had cases that without a license they have been treated "

A paracetamol

The reality is that in the first months of this strange season there have been several complaints from parents and footballers in the capital, who now with the storm in memory do not forget the need for consistent health insurance.

A Flabio, a kid from Racing Villaverde, his kneecap came off in training.

Given the delay of the ambulance, his technicians ended up calling 112 and took him to the hospital, where they prescribed "paracetamol every eight hours" and sent him home.

One day, with extreme pain, he ended up undergoing emergency surgery. In El Escorial they report that no one answers the emergency telephone number and several footballers over 35 years of age claim that they no longer do electrocardiograms, "only the basic examination", and that performing ultrasounds is "impossible" due to the bureaucracy of petitions: "You have to wait a long time."

Some protests also denounced by Jesús Peramos, president of the Association in Defense of Soccer of Madrid and candidate for the presidency of the Federation.

The issue of ambulances is "the one that bothers the most", several officials complain that they are hired "only by the hour" and that they are not fully active on weekends, but in the Federation they insist that they have an active "Service of Emergency Coordination, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. "

Rayo Vallecano Foundation,

Nerea Fernández broke her crusader on November 15 and when she went to the emergency room for insurance they did an ultrasound and gave her an appointment with the traumatologist, asking for an MRI that she had to pay for.

"I paid for it out of pocket, he treated me and sent me to rehab," she explains.

"So three or four times with three different doctors. As of January 23, I still don't know if they are operating on me or not. I am tired of the insurance doing nothing, of paying for everything myself and of being unemployed for three months." On the phone, the Federation recognizes that "it may happen that something does not work" and assures that "we have improved in care centers, we have 36 rehabilitation centers when there used to be one, the premium is cheaper ...", lists González, an expert in the insurance world for more than two decades and a driver of the change of insurer.

'Soule case'

According to those responsible for football in Madrid,

Mupresfe

, mutual of Spanish soccer since 1948 and investigated in the

Soule case

, has had a profit of 600,000 euros a year thanks to the Community clubs and "they owe the clubs 1.3 million euros", "it is a monopoly and when you leave it goes for you".

From the old mutual, which is considering suing the Federation for irregularities in contracting insurance, those responsible are accused of "cheating and threatening football in Madrid", while González focuses his criticism on Rubiales: "For him it has been a stab, a decision that has broken molds, "he says.

In short, sides, politics and elections.

And in the middle, again, the Madrid children.

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