The 'death' of the International Doge, of the help of Courtois, Iglesias and DjMariio to "the war" with Rubiales: "You cannot demand 20,000 euros of minimum wage"

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In

, the esports team

and the football club

, from

, announced a historic agreement to become "the infinite club".

That's how they described it.

A movement that made Dux Gaming, where

are co-owners , the first

organization that entered the shareholding of a football board.

Two years later,

.

The International Dux of Madrid, which was promoted to the First RFEF in the 2020-2021 season and remained in it during 21-22, has been "

" by the sole judge of the

for not being able to cope to the

required by the RFEF for the new season.

These are: the

that comply with the general regulations of the new First RFEF or, if they do not have them, a

to compensate the rest of the teams.

In that "general regulation" of the new First RFEF is the problem for the Dux, a healthy club and in which its players were paid daily and without problem until the end of last year.

For the 2022-2023 academic year, the RFEF forces the Dux and the rest of the teams to have 18 professional cards with a

, a capital increase that the board has not been able to assume.

The Doge had one of the lowest budgets in the category, with

for the best paid and 600-800 for the least, a scale that is far from what the RFEF is now asking for.

"It

, because we are a humble club and sportingly we had done well," explains

, team coach, to EL MUNDO.

"They have always paid us daily, that we must give importance to that because in amateur football, which is in the end what this category still is, it does not happen everywhere.

.. It makes me angry for the kids who are now left lying around."

Santaelena puts the focus on the "exaggerated ceiling for such humble teams" that the Federation puts.

"

.

These are things that upset me.

The conditions set by the Federation are very high for the club in a non-professional league.

The referees are not professionals either.

Last year this happened to Extremadura and now to us.

You can't put that salary cap on this category.

I hope it doesn't happen to anyone else."

The role of Courtois and Borja Iglesias

But, "can't professional soccer players with millionaire salaries like Courtois or Iglesias do something?", the reader will ask.

And the reality is that not too much.

The Real Madrid goalkeeper and the Betis striker are co-owners of the electronic sports team, where they support the club with their image and opinion in decision-making, but

, since the shareholders that Dux Gaming owns is minimal.

When Dux Gaming and Internacional de Madrid announced their collaboration, it was defined in the name, shield and colors of Dux, but the

continued to be held by

(current president),

(vice president) and

, who have the majority shareholding.

The three, with the British Newman,

, as president, created the team in 2002.

The Newman–Rubiales War

As this newspaper has been able to learn, from the footballers' environment they have tried to mediate to find new investors who would deal with the season's budgets, but they encountered various problems.

One of them is the

, president of the RFEF.

"They are at war," say various sources.

The president of the International Doge has been one of those who has been most against that minimum salary of 20,000 euros for footballers.

"

. It is not legal. The League imposes a minimum salary for Second, but you enter between five and seven million in your account. They give us about 200,000 euros a year", he assured

a few days ago.

Added to these criticisms is the fact that Newman is the spokesman for the newly created

, currently made up of

.

An invention that is not to the liking of the RFEF, although all have registered without problems except the Doge.

As if that were not enough, Newman put his

, in his case for renting a luxury home in Madrid's Plaza de España.

In addition, he also denounced the president of the Federation for an alleged

by "imposing some requirements to participate in the First RFEF while these are pending approval by the CSD".

A situation that leaves the International Doge of Madrid

, with great

.

It could administratively descend to the Second RFEF, to the Preferential or disappear, depending on the next events and the lawsuits against the RFEF.

In addition, it does not have the

and social support that a club of this category should have.

And that is where another problem lies.

It is a nomadic organization, without stability or base in an area of ​​the Community.

He started playing in

in the early 2000s, then he went to

, then to

and later to

, the last headquarters before moving to

in 2020. There it has not found the necessary financial support either and has even received a small rejection from the town.

An unexpected ending for "the infinite club".

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