Orfeo Suarez Madrid
Madrid
Updated Thursday, April 4, 2024-23:25
The Sports Administrative Court (TAD) began to deliberate but postponed any decision regarding
Pedro Rocha
and the rest of the members of the Federation Management Commission that he headed before resigning to be a candidate, with the possibility of disqualification that in the environment of the Government they want. If it occurs, it would clear up the remains of 'Rubialism' in a very uncertain electoral horizon, deactivating part of the territorial power, although not all, with candidates who are an unknown and a call for elections possibly useless, given the chain of pending appeals.
If Rocha is finally disqualified and with him the members of the Management Commission, this would also block several 'barons', among which is at least one who had considered presenting himself, such as the Andalusian
Pablo Lozano
. On the other hand, it would not prevent
Salvador Gomar
, president of the Valencian territorial organization, from doing so, as he does not appear on the body. A Manager should be re-established, chaired, according to the statutes, by the highest-ranking member of the Federation's board of directors who has not been subject to the sanction.
If Rocha is not disqualified, he could run in the May 6 elections, as is his intention, although the electoral process would be challenged by
Miguel Galán
, as he has already stated, and possibly by other pre-candidates who have appeared. For now it is the journalist
Carlos Herrera
, who yesterday reaffirmed his intention in his program at Cope,
Eva Parera
and
Javier González
, waiting for the decision of other people who have not yet expressed themselves publicly, such as
Gerardo González
, former secretary general of the organization and candidate in 2004, and
Javier Lozano
, president of the LNFS.
The reason for the more than foreseeable challenge to the process is that elections were not called to replace members of the Assembly who had lost their seats, such as former coach
Luis Enrique
. A good part of them correspond to the player quota. The complete Assembly has 140 members and, currently, it has 98, a fact that also complicates the achievement of endorsements, 15% of the census. With the current one, there would be 15. Rocha has them guaranteed. For the rest it is a mystery, so everything indicates that a good part of the pre-candidates will choose to attend the elections that the new president must call in July, already with a renewed and complete Assembly, to be held in September, after the Euro Cup. and the Paris Games. Then 21 guarantees would be necessary.
Carlos Herrera reaffirms himself
«I am going to show up to clean up, to regenerate, so that the future of football is in the news for its successes and not for the shenanigans. My intention is to create a transparency and good governance commission as soon as I arrive at the Federation, to dust off all the pending issues," said the communicator in his Herrera program on COPE. Herrera has already been able to press representatives of the football groups represented in the Assembly, the same as other pre-candidates have done.
The Government observes the process with concern, given that, in addition to the image of the country that is projected through football, there is a key strategic project, such as the 2030 World Cup, pending the distribution of venues and matches. A weak position of the Federation, such as the current one, is dangerous. The same thing happens with Gianni Infantino's FIFA, which has sent some of his executives to Madrid to meet with the Higher Sports Council. Among them, his legal manager,
Emilio García Silvero
, whom some would see as the ideal candidate.