Rubiales sets August 17 to be reelected in the RFEF

The Board of Directors of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) will call this Wednesday elections for the presidency of the body for next August 17, if there are no challenges and the Superior Sports Council (CSD) approves it. Both conditions seem safe because no more candidates are expected., making it difficult to challenge, and because The RFEF, like other Olympic federations have done, has previously agreed on the deadlines for the elections with the CSD.

Rubiales will present his candidacy on Friday of this week, and then he will resign to be reelected on Monday, August 17, according to the draft electoral calendar to which this newspaper has had access and which will be approved tomorrow at the RFEF Board. In the unlikely, if not almost impossible, case that the CSD does not consider August, a month traditionally unsuitable for being a vacation period, the entire process would be delayed by a month and the elections would be on September 17. If an alternative candidate to Rubiales appeared, for which there is a legal deadline until August 4, and decided to contest, the elections would have to be delayed until Monday, August 31, as this newspaper advanced yesterday.

Casillas' candidacy is in hibernation. The man who was captain of Real Madrid expressed his intention to attend the elections, but it has been exactly 90 days since he spoke. 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, I had kept the illusion, but last March 8 Iker already recognized the possibility of a withdrawal. Today, Luis Rubiales has prepared the electoral call, which will be made official in 24 hours, and Iker attending the elections would be a surprise as if it were snowing tonight in Los Monegros. 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.

Without Boxes, Rubiales has free way to be reelected by acclamation by an Assembly that will also be renewed. But there could still be surprises, because although Iker Casillas is not expected, andThis does not mean that some last minute brave cannot appear. In the opposition to Rubiales, work is being done in this direction, but to Matataballo, without time and without a program..