No news from Iker, Rubiales to be re-elected by acclamation

There is no news about Iker Casillas' candidacy for the Federation since March 9, the day he visited the CSD to protest the electoral progress. Three months have passed and Luis Rubiales has taken advantage to curdle the electoral call, which will be formal in the coming days. Elections will be held within 80 days once the deadlines begin. No news from Casillas, Luis Rubiales will be re-elected by acclamation in the last days of August.

On March 7, the CSD authorized the electoral advance in the Federation (RFEF). Only 24 hours later, Casillas began to consider resigning from presenting himself as an alternative. Until then, he had maintained the illusion, but on March 8, Iker already recognized the possibility of a withdrawal. As of today, Luis Rubiales has prepared the electoral call, which he will do in the next few days, and it would be a surprise if Iker attended the elections. The legal deadlines, the coronavirus, which has prevented him from campaigning, the difficulty of reversing the Assembly and the Electoral Regulation itself leave him with very little margin.

Casillas will end his contract with Porto on the 30th. It will be time to officially announce his retirement as an active player and surely also to formalize his resignation from the elections of the Royal Spanish Football Federation. In case anyone thinks, Iker was never a bluff at the RFEF. There is reliable evidence. For example, the fact of putting yourself in the hands of specialists who led several presidents of the Government to victory, advisers to the PSOE for more signs. One of them accompanied him on his first visit to Irene Lozano, just 24 hours after Pedro Sánchez appointed her president of the Superior Sports Council (CSD)

Rubiales, who reached the presidency in troubled times, after the arrest by the Civil Guard of the previous president, Ángel Villar, is emerging as the sole candidate for reelection. Villar only had to win two elections to accumulate 29 years of president. In reality the difficult thing is to win the first ones, as Rubiales also did against Larrea. From there, you are either very clumsy or, if you are in sports politics, you have to win. Not only was Rubiales going to be re-elected by acclamation, so were Infantino in FIFA, Ceferin in UEFA … Once you manage the 'party apparatus' it is no longer difficult to win, it is difficult to be a candidate. Rubiales takes advantage, legitimately, of an Electoral Regulation of the federative field that clearly harms the applicants and benefits the holders of the place. Yes to that we add the work capacity of the president of the RFEF and his political abilityRubiales can aspire to be longer than Villar.

The balance of the two years that Rubiales has led the RFEF will be made when the elections are called. In summary, it could be said that it has been successful with decisions such as the new format of the Cup, it has made cash with the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia and it has reinforced the position of the RFEF in UEFA; by cons, He has had no luck with the management of the National Team bench nor with the participation of Spain in the World Cup in Russia and in the League of Nations. Luis Enrique is the only coach of the 59 countries in Europe who does not speak to the press (at least with the press that covers the Selection).