• Aganzo: Investigate possible corruption in the AFE

The turbulent situation that the Spanish Footballers Association (AFE) is going through seems to have reacted to those seeking an alternative to its questioning president, David Aganzo . Several First and Second captains have started a movement for a change in the union leadership and the name chosen is that of Fernando Morientes. As EL MUNDO has confirmed, the former Real Madrid player does not rule out taking the step forward.

"It is not a thing that I have looked for. It is a pleasant surprise, that they call you colleagues, former colleagues, coaches ... I am proud that the values ​​that I have sown over time represent many of them," he stated in The Partizado de Cope the 44-year-old former striker, who played for Albacete, Liverpool, Monaco and Real Madrid, among other teams.

"What I have heard, the internal problems that have been going out with the AFE worker ... These are things that damage his image. What I knew as AFE is not what I see. Disunited footballers . I am still an affiliate and I do not like it and I am saddened by the image that is being given, "reasoned Morientes, who is also a collaborator of EL MUNDO.

This week, the Marca newspaper reported on the letter from an AFE employee who accused Aganzo of the commission of an alleged bribery crime . Furthermore, a part of the union leadership has filed a complaint against the president himself for the possible commission of a continued crime of unfair administration, another of bribery and another of revelation of secrets. All this instability has led to the search for an alternative in Morientes.

Aganzo himself tried to justify the accusations that Antonio Sánchez Chueca imputed both to him and to his general secretary, Diego Rivas. "I have rendered accounts of all my management with transparency and honesty, and a support in the last Assembly of 98%. I represent a union with more than forty years of history and close to fifty workers, and it does not guide us any another objective that is not the full and unwavering defense of the rights of the more than ten thousand soccer players that, like you, make up AFE, "the president said in a statement.

"If it is not with the approval of the players, I would not even think about it. I am turning my head," Morientes announced. For the latest information, Aganzo is not planning to resign ; the term remains until the summer of 2021. He has convened a Board of Directors for Friday, to appoint two new vice-presidents after the departure of Juan Mata and David de Gea.

"What the footballers want is a change now. I perceive that the image that is being given of the union does not represent them," continued Morientes, who confessed that he has never had a union streak: "But football has given me everything and if the footballer calls me ... It's hard for me to look the other way . I want to seriously consider it. "

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