Javier Tebas said yesterday in an institutional act that “he still does not sleep until all the official competitions are over.” And his sentence is totally credible. The scenes recently starred by various pillars of Seville, Jovic or Semedo, skipping the health protocols, are putting at risk the health of their peers and the viability of being able to end the season as desired. For this reason, The president of LaLiga has returned to the charge today through various international media, as stated L 'Equip: “If they don't stop going to barbecues … We hope we don't get to this extreme.” His words have set off alarms.
Some players have taken them directly as a threat rather than a proposal should they be needed. However, from the Association of Spanish Footballers they do not give more importance to this opinion. In fact, they are aware that these isolated episodes should not reoccur. Even so, AS has consulted several First and Second captains who have regularly participated in telematic meetings during this confinement with the union, some of them very actively. And they are clear, like the rest of their colleagues, that concentrations are already a discarded alternative. As AS has learned, on May 29, LaLiga and AFE left the issue settled after LaLiga came to raise concentrations for several weeks at the beginning of the crisis and AFE proposed that, at most, it be a week before soccer restarted.
Another thing is that the clubs, in a timely manner, decide how they have done many other times to concentrate their teams before any important match or in the face of the final matches that remain to be played. They must reach agreements with their templates. But a general rule will not be given for now. Much less unilaterally. For the mergers to be back on the table to discuss it, LaLiga and AFE should resume those negotiations again. And right now that is more than unlikely. The points to be addressed now are others and are more focused on sanitary measures, protocols, contracts beyond June 30 … What both institutions insist is that the players must set an example because there is a lot at stake and they are social models. And, from there, the desire is that they expose themselves much less on social networks so as not to create justified controversies or confusion. In the different talks that take place throughout the season in the locker room, all the professionals of the 42 clubs receive detailed information to regulate their appearances in their official profiles. LaLiga and AFE value the behavior of the vast majority of footballers and hope that there will be no more cases of indiscipline so that these isolated chapters are not reputed or, above all, become older.