AFE requests a line of communication with the Ministry, CSD, FEF and LaLiga and protection against ERTES

David Aganzo, as president of the Association of Spanish Soccer Players, has sent different letters to José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes (minister of Culture and Sports), Irene Lozano (president of the Superior Council of Sports), Luis Rubiales (president of the Royal Spanish Federation of Soccer) and Javier Tebas (president of LaLiga), in which it requests to open a line of fluid communication with all of them so that the union is informed at all times of issues that may currently affect the soccer team.

AFE has reported this movement in a statement:

“Before the State of Alarm declared throughout the country and Royal Decree-Law 8/2020, of March 17, in which extraordinary urgent measures are approved to face the economic and social impact of COVID-19, the president of AFE states in the first place that a State of Alarm does not mean a State of Illegality.

David Aganzo has informed in these letters that AFE has sent its more than 10,000 affiliates a letter to explain in detail the measures implemented by the Government and to have clear concepts and different ERTES, asking its four interlocutors to take extreme measures to defend the rights of footballers.

AFE also calls for the collective labor rights to be guaranteed in a State of Law in which we are, transmitting that the union will denounce any situation that perverts what is exposed in the text of the aforementioned Royal Decree.

Our association wants to have information on the position that the Ministry of Culture and Sports, CSD, RFEF and LaLiga will adopt in order to carry out a collaboration strategy in which the rights of the footballers as workers are respected at all times, avoiding making decisions that may be irreversible in different directions. “