The pacts reached in the meeting between Irene Lozano , Javier Tebas and Luis Rubialesthey are already black on white in the last Royal Decree 15/2020, on urgent measures to support the economy and employment. The Higher Sports Council (CSD) has been in a great hurry, although some of the measures, such as the creation of a foundation to manage the audiovisual rights of the sports federations with less weight, did not deserve such speed, as they are, today, economically intangible content. However, it is a way of making agreements law, of marking the ground and subjecting the interlocutors of sport, especially the president of the League, who is the one who loses the most in this truce, given the starting point. The weakness of his position, since he needs the Government for the competition to end, was possibly key in this unthinkable agreement months ago.

The management of the audiovisual rights of other federations was granted to the League by Royal Decree 5/2015, which regulated the centralized sale of television rights and reinforced the position of Thebes and his body. In return, they received money from soccer. While many federations accepted because it supposed an income that they did not have before, the fact generated suspicions in other organizations, such as the soccer Federation, then chaired by Ángel Villar , the Spanish Olympic Committee or the Spanish Soccer Association, of which he was at the Rubiales command. Those sensitivities were transferred, through the so-called 'anti-Thebes' clause, to the draft of the draft sports law promoted by the former Secretary of State, María José Rienda , in an article whose content was similar to that now modified in the additional provision fifth of Royal Decree 15/2020.

If the federations cannot manage their rights by themselves, they will fall to the Spain Global Sports Foundation, whose constitution is regulated in article 26 of the last Royal Decree. It does not seem that this was so urgent. Both the Federation and the League will form part of the foundation and will be chaired by the Secretary of State.

In addition, the Royal Decree modifies the amounts established by the previous one in the distribution of some items of television rights, mainly those received by the CSD and the Federation, the two interlocutors together with the Liga del Palacio de Viana. Rubiales' body goes from 1% to 2%, which represents an injection of some 17 million euros, key for an entity that also looks to the future with uncertainty. Intended for the development of modest football, the Government reserves, according to the RT, the ability to audit its use and destiny. In other words, it practically gives you the treatment of a public subsidy. For the Federation it is a fundamental income in order to fulfill the commitments made to support clubs in the crisis caused by the pandemic, and more in the face of an uncertain future for their competitions, Cup and Super Cup, committed to Saudi Arabia.

The CSD, for its part, will receive 1.5% more, which will allow it to help federated sports, in the short and medium-term future of budget shortages. As President Pedro Sánchez often says ductilely, you have to "mobilize" funds, because creating them out of nothing is impossible. A part has mobilized them from professional football, to which the previous PP government granted the grace of an ad hoc Royal Decree against the criteria of many jurists, as it is a private activity. Now that he is in a weak position, the debt is collected.

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