LAS ROZAS (MADRID), 20 Apr. (SportsFinding) –
The president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, stated this Wednesday that “little or none of the information” that has come out about the operation of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia “is true”, and defended that “a clear, clean, transparent, honest and, above all, beneficial management for Spanish football” has been carried out.
“Little or none of this information is true. A clear, clean, transparent, honest and, above all, beneficial management for Spanish football has been carried out. I have been in the RFEF for 4 years and I have suffered many attacks, I have not had a single week where there are no continuous attacks, complaints or request for disqualifications against me and this institution, but certain limits are being exceeded,” said Rubiales at a press conference at the Ciudad del Fútbol de Las Rozas (Madrid) together with the federative general secretary, Andrew Camps.
The leader showed “great indignation at all the falsehoods that are being spread and significant anger because priority is being given to falsehoods and not to the real problem” which is that they have “illegally stolen information and that it will be necessary to see if is it real or not?
Rubiales indicated that he had not gone out “before” to give explanations until he had permission from Saudi Arabia “to be able to speak with some freedom about a contract subject to confidentiality.” In this sense, in relation to the information about the contract, he warned that it is already “outdated” and is not the “current” one.
In addition, he assured that it was said “very clearly that the economic relationship” would not be with the RFEF but with Kosmos and that the institution “neither has paid nor will pay a single euro of commission for this operation”, which has given “400 million for Spanish football, not 240, with 50 percent for participants and 50 or a little more for modest football”.
For this reason, he asserted that the agreement is “legal” and that it seems that “everyone already agrees” and that there was also no “conflict of interest” and that this proposal from Saudi Arabia passed “the three filters” that they have for these issues in the RFEF and that the Ethics Commission gave its approval and that “he proposed to go”.