Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga, spoke at the ADEA Forum in Zaragoza about the work of the employers to manage the effect of the pandemic on First and Second Division clubs. In it he spoke about the hope that the public will return to the stadiums in the last days and also about the pressure to end last season without relegation.
Return of the public to the stadiums: “All the clubs are prepared to see the public tomorrow. We have a very exhaustive protocol. We solve the problem of crowds before entering. We have been puzzled lately. In Badajoz there were 7,000 spectators, there are concerts … The CSD is the one that decides when it enters The public. It is something that must be resolved. There must be different views regarding the third wave. Now we must put the variable of rates of hospitalized, ICU beds and not only infected. The rate of danger is reduced by the vaccine We must take that into account as well. We must see these other indices that are falling. We do not want to fill the stadiums, we want to start with 10 or 20%. We have to try to mitigate the losses. Within the CSD there is a working group on this. I hope that in the last days there will be. “
AFE Elections: “The count of the AFE elections for a Netflix series is very good. I don't know if it is comedy or suspense.”
Last season: “Last year, due to the situation that some clubs were in the classification, they said that LaLiga had to be considered canceled and that it was not possible to go down or go up. Others, who were almost to enter Europe, because they wanted to play and they COVID did not matter. Others that could not be lowered, but could be raised. The LaLiga Delegate Committee made the decision to end the season. If anyone wanted to make another approach, then they should get eleven signatures as support and vote in the Assembly. Nobody succeeded. “
Test: “To date we have an average of 140,000 PCRs and 5,672 serological tests. We have made a map of immunity in football. We have had cases of players who have had the virus twice, Carrasco for example. In total there were three cases. There are companies that are asking us for data, because football is multiracial, to see how it affects different people. They are very large numbers to make a stadium. We have detected 670 positives in LaLiga, of which 327 are players. categories there are about a thousand players, since 32% have passed the COVID. All the clubs have had positive results, but in drips “.
Contagion: “We have only had three outbreaks: Fuenlabrada, Mirandés and Granada, which was medium, but we had to take measures. With the Fuenlabrada game we realized that the protocol had to change. The only place where the players were together was the locker room and there the outbreak occurred. It was a time when aerosols were not discussed. From that moment on, the health ministries began to speak that it was also transmitted by aerosols. Most of the Spanish teams did not use the locker rooms. in European competitions in August. In the case of Granada, they used UEFA protocol and shared a dressing room. “
Changing rooms: “At the beginning of the season we had a problem because the coaches wanted to use them. The coaching college called us, Zidane called us … We had to explain to them that it was impossible, that it would generate a problem.”
Diakhaby and the position of LaLiga: “I recommend that if you are convinced then that you go to the end, it is your right. A job has been done on the sound of the stadium and lip reading. The result is that Cala did not say so. We already have a second report that It confirms that this insult is not heard. “
Sale of audiovisual rights: “We are not facing a negotiation itself, it is a contest. We are going to be very disruptive. Yesterday they told me that they had never seen what we are going to propose. Interested operators will bid on the packages that interest them. raise is that there will be up to four packages. We are still working on this matter. “
Technological and digital background: “We have put all the technological fund to provide services to third parties. We have had several meetings. There is an interest, even interesting operations. There is not a day that we do not have a meeting about this.”
Club ownership: “I do not see that Valladolid is going to sell the club, quite the opposite. People always listen, but there is no will. I do not think that Ronaldo or Ángel Torres are going to sell Valladolid and Getafe. There is no race to sell clubs in Spain, on the contrary, rather to buy “.
Future source of income: “Quantitatively it will continue to be important for audiovisuals. Although in the future it will be mainly OTT. That allows a revolution in the relationship with the fans. We are far above the sports industry, including the North American one, because of how we were working on it. We use artificial intelligence to set the match schedules thanks to all the data we have on the number of spectators that go to the stadiums and their audiences on television. All this you can know how many people will go to the stadiums and how many people They will see you on television 30 days in advance and with a margin of error of 2%. With that, you can optimize the schedules. “