MADRID, 17 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Association of Spanish Soccer Players (AFE) explained this Monday that its rejection of the modification that the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has made in the regulations that govern the operation of the different Mixed Commissions that its opposition is to “the limitation” so that footballers who “have not deposited their contract or economic pact” within the established deadlines and who in no case intend to “favor any submerged economy” can access.
After the statement issued this Sunday by the RFEF in which it denied that it was going to eliminate the Mixed Commissions, criticizing the union’s actions and stressing that it had approved “functioning rules” to give “greater strength” to these organizations, the association responded to explain “the reason for his rejection” of this modification made “unilaterally”.
“The change that AFE opposes is the limitation of access to the Mixed Commission to footballers who have not deposited their contract or economic pact through the ‘Fenix Portal’ (federate portal) within 15 days of signing the contract or the economic pact or during the first 15 days of each season,” said the union chaired by David Aganzo.
This considers that “in no case should the club’s or the footballer’s failure to register the contract or economic agreement mean that a Mixed Commission fails to analyze the existing debts of the clubs with their footballers” and that, “on the contrary of what the RFEF indicates”, he does not want footballers “to have contracts not communicated to the RFEF” nor does he intend to “favor any underground economy”, as the federative entity had accused him.
In this sense, AFE pointed out that it is “rather the opposite” and that it understands that with this measure “the RFEF is promoting the existence of economic relations between clubs/soccer players that remain totally opaque to control and established mechanisms, promoting thus unfair competition between clubs”.
“If this measure is maintained, commitments and payments will not come to light that we understand should emerge if you want to have a real vision of the clubs’ accounts, since any player who has not been able to register his contract within the deadlines established by the RFEF will not contribute it to the Mixed Commission, knowing that their claim will not be able to prosper,” he added.
The union is “completely in favor of the existence of economic control and that systems are articulated so that there is more transparency in the relations between clubs and players”, but warns that it should not “restrict the rights of soccer players”. , recalling that until the 22-23 season “any claim before a Mixed Commission was accepted if the club’s commitment to pay the amounts claimed was signed.” “From now on, it will be required, in addition to the above, that the contract has been previously deposited with the RFEF within the periods indicated above,” he remarked.
“From AFE we want to emphasize that the Mixed Commissions, as indicated in the RFEF’s own statutes, are joint bodies that have always made their decisions collegiately by agreement between the two parties that made them up. The introduction of any modification in matters related to the Mixed Commissions, it should have been previously negotiated with the representatives of the soccer players in them and not be imposed by the RFEF unilaterally,” the association stressed.
“IT IS CREDITED THAT AFE DOES NOT LIE”
AFE also clarified the internal communication that its affiliates had sent and described as “false” from the RFEF, affirming that it said “literally” that the modification by the RFEF of the regulations for the operation of the Mixed Commissions “establishes that the The footballers must deposit their contract on their Fenix platform during the first 15 days of each season or up to 15 days after signing it”, and that not doing so, “complaints to the clubs cannot be approved through the Mixed Commissions”.
“The regulation published by the RFEF establishes that the claims may only deal with amounts owed to the footballers, as a consequence of their relationship with the claimed club/SAD, which have not prescribed and which derive from a contract or agreement deposited by the /the footballer himself/herself in the RFEF through the Fenix Portal or, if they have not done so voluntarily and within the term, the contract or pact deposited by the club will be taken into consideration for the purposes of issuing the corresponding licence”, cited the union.
This also detailed what it dictates about the deadlines. “The footballers may deposit the contract or economic agreement during the first 15 days of each season or up to 15 days after signing the contract or agreement if the date thereof is later. This same period will apply for novations or modifications of previous contracts or agreements,” he said.
“In view of all this, it is proven that AFE is not lying and its only interest is the defense of the rights of soccer players, and that it deserves greater respect from an institution like the RFEF,” the AFE said.