The president of LaLiga participates in the presentation of the III ISDE Sports Convention, to be held in May in Madrid
MADRID, 16 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, stated that the LaLiga Impulso project with the CVC venture capital fund was “necessary” to “catch up” in the sports industry, at the presentation of the third edition of the ISDE Sports Convention ( ISC), the International Conference of reference for law and the sports industry that will be held next May in Madrid.
“We are at a transcendental moment in LaLiga. After the centralized sale of television rights and economic control, the most important moment for the organization is the agreement that we have promoted with CVC. This operation represents an economic injection of 2,000 million euros to 37 clubs”, he highlighted.
Javier Tebas participated in the round table ‘Football: Current aspects of sports law and management’ at the ISDE headquarters in Madrid together with the coordinator of the book with the same name Felipe Toranzo, managing partner at FT Executive Search; Manuel Quintanar, former Director of Integrity at LaLiga; and Juan de Dios Crespo, CEO of RH&C Sports Lawyers, also co-authors of the work.
Javier Tebas warned that if the Spanish League wants to “compete” it must grow more internationally, an aspect that LaLiga Impulso will strengthen with the creation of, among other measures, club academies around the world.
“This project allows to advance 15 or 20 years what the clubs would have done organically. Would Rayo build a new stadium if it did not have 35 million from the Impulse Plan? I would not see it alive. This project was necessary to catch up in the sports industry and get closer to the Premier League. If we hadn’t done it, our industry would decrease. It’s the most important that the Spanish League undertakes,” he stressed.
“THE SUPERLIGA IS NOT GOING TO SUCCESS ECONOMICALLY”
The initiative of the European Super League, promoted by the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Pérez, defined it as the “ideological weapon” of the big clubs that consider that they should rule in world football.
“The three castaways carry the flag alive to give the feeling of a false unity. It is false because there you can see how Juventus is doing and how Barça is doing. Madrid is going to take over Mbappé and Haaland and the others are half-ruined. What come Mbappé is great news for LaLiga”, he said.
In Spain, it is not possible to organize, according to him, a “private competition” as Real Madrid intends with the Super League because by law there can only be one federation and one professional league. “The damage that it would cause to LaLiga is 1,900 million less revenue per season. Spanish football would change radically. The Superliga is not going to succeed economically. The model that was sold will not exist because no English club is going to enter,” he stressed. .
The recent Spanish Super Cup played in Saudi Arabia, and organized by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), “is profitable” for the football industry and called the biannual World Cup that FIFA intends to be “extremely horny”. “It will give more money. Yes, but the clubs will pay the players,” he said before pointing out that the Miami game “is not a dream” but will be a “reality at some point.”
SÁNCHEZ PUIG: “THE ISC IS THE REFERENCE IN LAW”
The CEO of ISDE, Juan José Sánchez Puig, described Javier Tebas’ management since he arrived at LaLiga in 2013 as “masterful”. “Javier has given us an example of what it means to speak digitally, of fighting for equality between all the clubs and knowing how to project an image of unity in Spanish football, without exclusions, at an international level”, he commented.
Sánchez Puig highlighted LaLiga’s commitment to the ISC, which “is a reality and has become the reference event for sports law and management”, and in which the main national and international experts will discuss the digital transition , sports betting legislation, promotion of women’s sports and, among other topics, organization of major sporting events.
The partner of FT Executive Search, Felipe Toranzo, reviewed the topics of the book that he has coordinated: conversion of clubs into SADs and their valuation, sale and purchase and investments in entities, talent management, the impact of COVID on footballer contracts and the integration of women’s rights in the new Sports Law in parliament.
“This book constitutes a buying guide on assessment processes, club management and leadership models, and highlights the important work carried out by LaLiga and the CSD in establishing economic control processes. I hope you find this book , as Del Bosque says in the prologue, opportune, illustrative and becomes a reference for the studio,” Toranzo pointed out.
The former Director of Integrity of LaLiga Manuel Quintanar recalled that the football club employers were “pioneers” in establishing a stable police link and lamented that piracy is one of the “major enemies” of sports broadcasting rights and, especially, of the football.
“The Anti-Doping Law, in general terms, is good. It seems to me to be progress and it will allow the Anti-Doping Agency to be more useful, effective and adapt to international regulations. My experience is having been with our hands tied with the old legislation “, indicated the former president of the then Spanish Agency for the Protection of Health in Sport (AEPSAD).
JUAN DE DIOS CRESPO: “THE SUPER LEAGUE IS LEGAL”
For the CEO of RH&C Sports Lawyers, Juan de Dios Crespo, the Superliga is “legal as long as it is ‘superligando'”. “There has been a question that has not been asked. Can I be in the League and the federation without fulfilling the objectives of both? Are you in or out? What you want is to have the best of each world without having the obligations of every world, and the Superliga is legal, but superliguee. Unfortunately it’s going to be a tough fight,” he predicted.
Crespo explained the differences between ‘transsexual’, which is the one who “changes sex” to normally obtain a benefit in sports, and ‘transgender’ as in the case of the South African athlete Caster Semenya. “Cut off the feet of Michael Phelps, who is 56, because he has a natural advantage. Caster is a woman. Do not come to lower that testosterone without knowing if it is good for your health,” she requested.
This round table was held within the framework of the third edition of the ISDE Sports Convention (ISC), the first international sports congress organized by a university academic institution, the Higher Institute of Law and Economics (ISDE), in collaboration with LaLiga.
Aimed at senior representatives and managers of sports law companies, Marketing and Communication directors and, among others, students specializing in Sports Law, ISC 2022 is organized in a hybrid mode, face-to-face and streaming, and will be the first major international legal- in a year in which the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing and the first World Cup in autumn in Qatar are being held, and in which Madrid will be the international epicenter of sport with the celebration of the World Capital of Sport.
MORE THAN 600 CONGRESSES FROM 40 COUNTRIES
Nearly 600 congressmen from more than 40 countries participated in the previous edition of the international legal and sports industry reference meeting, a sector that contributes 3.3 percent of GDP and more than 414,000 jobs to the Spanish economy, held in 2019 before the suspension of the activity in 2020 due to COVID-19.
In addition, the ISC awards were given to the three-time world boxing champion, Joana Pastrana; the president of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario, and the former Olympic badminton champion Carolina Marín.