The Prosecutor's Office opens an investigation for the alleged irregularities of Luis Rubiales at the head of the Federation
There were opportunities before, but public opinion met
Miguel Ángel Galán
seven years ago, embracing the Syrian
Osama Abdul Mohsen
and his two children, taking a mass bath.
Days before Mohsen had fled the war in his country with his son
Zaid
, he had been tripped by the journalist
Petra László
on the Hungarian border with Serbia and the video of the aggression had gone viral in half the world, with all that it implies .
Millions of people then learned about his story and learned, for example, that he had coached in the Syrian Premier League.
It was then that Galán called him to offer him a new life: he was going to work at his coaches' academy, the Official School of Football and Futsal Coaches (Cenafe), and would live with his children near his headquarters, in Getafe. .
It was then that Galán appeared before the cameras, at the height of the media boom in history, as the benefactor of the refugee family.
Months later Mohsen was fired by Cenafe, his rental contract ended and he left disenchanted to live in Turkey.
By then, public opinion already knew about Galán and so on until this Thursday.
Galán is the complainant who has made the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor open an investigation into the alleged irregularities committed by Luis Rubiales at the head of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in the continuation of a kind of tradition in the body.
It was already Galán who sued the former president,
Ángel María Villar
, on up to four occasions, the last for the 'Soule case' that landed him in jail.
It was already Galán who denounced, in another order of gravity, several former players, from
Zinedine Zidane
to
Fernando Torres
, for acting as coaches without having the appropriate qualifications.
"I'm not looking to be acclaimed"
Candidate for the presidency of the RFEF and later of the Madrid Football Federation, Galán has always exercised opposition at various levels in Spanish football based on steps through the courts and public actions such as the hiring of the Syrian Osama Abdul Mohsen.
"I'm not looking to be acclaimed. My ego is more than covered in CENAFE. I'm looking to help the neighbors of modest football. I'm a manager and I want to help. My legal battles have their explanation", he commented to 'Marca' in an interview granted last year happened shortly before denouncing, in 'Confilegal', that he had received death threats.
The outcome of the file opened to the current president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, is uncertain, but its beginning is well known.
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