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Surely when you read this, no matter how early in the morning it is, several employees of the Federation and LaLiga have been awake for a long time analyzing the ammunition with which the war between both organizations and those who preside over them is renewed every morning,

on one side and

on the other.

Information and leaks are mixed until they are diluted in a magma with a rotten smell that, with regard to the Spanish team, is marking this concentration, no matter how much the body tries to separate the team from everything that is happening.

It happens that, in these times, it is impossible to isolate any group, sprinkled, like all, by the publications that are happening.

It reaches the players and the coaching staff, even if they are entrenched in the luxurious Mandarin Oriental in Geneva, on the shores of Lake Leman.

In the concentration hotels in Spain, the team and the most direct collaborators of the players occupy one floor, while the rest of the expedition, including the president and his entourage, are on another, always attentive to the new publications, which this week They have reached the team for the first time, since

.

Does this situation affect the players?

“We have an important match against Switzerland and we try to isolate ourselves as much as possible.

We come here and try to be on the sidelines, although the repercussion is great for being the president.

, "said the captain,

, who spoke for the second time in a week.

"They told me that you missed me," he joked.

It can only be one

The fact is that the situation is becoming increasingly ugly.

There is a feeling on both sides that, this time, there can only be one left.

Either Thebes or Rubiales.

Or that both fall.

After fighting more or less ephemeral battles such as the League match in the United States, the schedules for Fridays and Mondays or the percentage of the pools, the cruelty, wild, that can be sensed after the audios of one and the other side makes it clear that this needs an end.

No one dares to say when that end will be, since the fronts are multiple.

Because, aside from the strategy of attrition that some and others put in place through the media, with leaks here and there, the truth is that the legal mess deserves a review.

Without going any further, Luis Rubiales declares this Thursday here in Switzerland about a lawsuit filed by Javier Tebas in which he accuses him of slander during a UEFA meeting.

Apart from this, his uncle and former right-hand man,

, has initiated two other legal actions against the Federation, one for harassment (

) and the other for coercion.

In addition, there is a complaint from

, president of AFE, before the Civil Guard for having been spied on, and another from the eccentric union Manos Limpias in the Madrid Courts.

But he still has two more leaks.

On the one hand, the ongoing investigation by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (which could end up in the Investigating Court number 4 of Majadahonda if it admits another complaint of

, president of CENAFE) and, on the other, the study by the CSD (Superior Sports Council) of two complaints, one again from the AFE for the alleged espionage of its president, and another, of course, from Miguel Galán, who makes complaints like someone who drinks coffee.

If something worries the Federation, where they maintain that they have nothing to hide and that all the investigations under way will come to nothing, it is these procedures of a government body such as the CSD, since the disqualification can come from there.

In fact, these days in the Federation they relate the fact that the CSD is a government body with the publication of the conversations via WhatsApp between Rubiales and the Prime Minister,

.

The Federation also defends itself in many other ways.

In the first place, he has denounced the president's uncle for obtaining information "illegally" and also for "revealing secrets", since they consider that it is Juan Rubiales who is allied with Tebas and who has passed

everything published to

In addition, they argue that they

and that they are open to giving any explanation that is required of them.

On Tuesday, the Federation published a ruling by the TSJM in which they were right in the case they opened against the decision of the TAD (Sports Arbitration Court) in 2020 not to allow the elections where Rubiales wanted to renew his mandate.

On the other shore of this war is LaLiga.

Javier Tebas has filed a lawsuit against Miguel García Caba, the Federation employee whom he accuses of recording and leaking part of that recording to OK Diario with the instigation and approval, always according to his version, of Rubiales.

The president of the employers intends with this initiative that the entire recording comes to light, where, he says, García Caba explains irregular actions by the president of the Federation.

Like Rubiales, Tebas has his circle of trust and several LaLiga workers dedicated body and soul to scrutinizing everything related to these matters to continue fueling the fire.

And it is in this environment of pens that record, of leaks that are cut off and whispers that slip in that the national team is played tonight, against Switzerland,

stay alive in the League of Nations.

A defeat would make things even worse.

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