• Arabia.The Government endorses the new Super Cup

The Spanish Super Cup will be held in the city of Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), 90 kilometers from Mecca, between January 8 and 12 of next year. The Federation, as this newspaper has been telling, will enter a figure close to 40 million euros for each of the three years it has signed , for a total of 120. The novelty is that, according to federated sources, women have revealed they will have a "total" freedom of access to the stadium. They can go with the clothes they want and be in the areas of the stadium they want.

The Federation has wanted to highlight this point since, in the Italian Super Cup , held in January this year, women were able to access the stadium, but only to a stand specially designated for them. "On this occasion it will not be like this," insists from Las Rozas, who also stress that the Federation will guard the creation of the first "entirely female" competition in Arabia, and that, finally, "all the money the Federation will earn with this will be destined to women's football and modest football "(once the emoluments of the four participants, Barcelona, ​​Real Madrid, Atlético de Madrid and Valencia) have been discounted.

It was this Monday, just after the general elections, when the body chaired by Luis Rubiales has decided to make public what was an open secret. Interference and / or request of the Government? Not according to the Federation, which links it more to the draw where the semifinals will be decided. By the way, the television rights of the competition have not yet been put to the contest.

"Football can be a tool for change, and we use it to try to change things. It is clear that 'we do not go there for' , but since we go, we want to make changes," explain federative sources, unable, logically, to deny that the main motivation to take the tournament to a country where human rights are not respected and where there is obvious sexual discrimination is economic. There were several more offers (China and Qatar among them), but the one who paid the most was Saudi Arabia.

The decision contravenes the recommendation made by UEFA three weeks ago, in which, without imposing anything, it suggested to all its member Federations that they should not take competitions or matches to countries where women's rights were not respected. "There were two options to that: the blockade or try to improve things in those countries. We are going to play and in those games women will have total freedom of access," insist these same sources, aware of the criticisms that await .

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