Juan Carlos I paralyzes the biography written by Carlos Herrera with new information about 23-F: “It will come out when the King wants”

The biography of Juan Carlos Iwhich he prepared and almost finished more than two years ago Carlos Herreraremains “frozen” at the Random House publishing house waiting for the King Emeritus to give the green light to the publication of the book.

The Andalusian journalist spent a year and a half visiting the previous head of state in the Zarzuela palace, before his expatriation to the United Arab Emirates, and his biographer and friend also traveled there twice to complete the final details.

However, the father of Felipe VI still corrects and adds to the book, including private documentation about the attempted coup d'état of February 23, 1981, but for the moment the previous monarch does not want to give the green light to the publication of what seems to be his definitive story, the one he wants to be told, perhaps waiting for his return to Spain to be resolved or for the serious crisis created by Jaime del Burgo's revelations about his alleged relationship with Queen Letizia. Carlos Herrera assures that the book will come out “whenever the King wants.”

The radio operator has other dreams in mind, such as his candidacy for the presidency of the Spanish Football Federation, in the most turbulent moment of that national sport, after the Rubiales scandal. The COPE star wants to mark a new time, different ways, eradicate corruption, modernize management, and turn around the current situation.

Rubiales' successor at the head of the Federation, hand in hand with Cristina Tárrega's husband and facing… Íker Casillas?

To begin with, in order to run, Herrera must sell the shares he has in a football club, which make his presidency incompatible. In any case, he already has a highly qualified management team planned, which comes from different professional fields. Next to Herrera is the former soccer player Mommy Quevedo, married to the presenter Cristina Tarrega. The opening of candidatures will open in less than a month, when the corresponding decree is published that puts an end to the current provisional nature.

However, qualified sources from the football field see the triumph of the radio journalist as “complicated”, although “not impossible”, because they consider that world to be “very endogenous”, “immobile” and “closed”. On the other hand, Herrera could face candidates as charismatic as Iker Casillas, who has many sympathies inside and outside the sports field.