The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, has not given a statement this Thursday before the instructor of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in the framework of the file opened by the suspended match between Deportivo and Fuenlabrada, andn the one who was going to give explanations at the request of the Madrid club.
Sources close to the case have confirmed to Efe that the instructor was unable to question the head of LaLiga.
The instructor of the RFEF file had accessed Javier Tebas' witness after receiving a letter from Fuenlabrada on Tuesday requesting that a statement be taken from him.
Yes The doctor, the coach, several players and other members of the Fuenlabrada were interrogated, as well as the agent of midfielder Hugo Fraile, Rodrigo Fernández Lovelle.
This confirmed that the footballers of the Madrid team learned of the positives of the squad in coronavirus at snack time on July 20 at the hotel in A Coruña.
Fernández Lovelle explained to Efe that the instructor questioned him for about fifteen minutes and, without giving details of his testimony, confirmed that he related what he had already stated in the interviews that he previously granted to different media.
“Rest assured everyone who told the whole truth, I already know that someone had doubts,” said the representative, qWho confirmed to the instructor that the Fuenlabrada footballers learned of the cases of COVID-19 on the expedition when they were having a snack at the team's concentration hotel in the Galician city on the day of the suspended match with Deportivo.
Lovelle indicated that at the time, when asked about his client, he provided this information “naturally because he did not give it any importance” since, he maintains, “like” he knew “everyone” and, in fact, he specifies, this was also indicated by the captains of the fuenlabreño team in statements to journalists.
In the open file, the instructor agreed to one of Deportivo's requests, that the AFE union report, anonymously, if it received complaints from a Fuenlabrada footballer in relation to the breach of sanitary protocols by the Madrid club.