The AFE will denounce the clubs that train at Christmas

The Spanish Association of Soccer Players (AFE) warned this Wednesday that it will “denounce” those First Iberdrola clubs that fail to comply with the provisions of the Collective Agreement regarding the rest of the soccer players during the Christmas period, and remarked that he has already contacted those affected to assure them that they are “protected.”

The union indicated that it had had “knowledge that several clubs of the First Iberdrola female have the intention of setting training sessions during certain days of next Christmas” and recalled that this is prohibited by the Collective Agreement in Article 11, relative to 'Other days of rest and leave '. This indicates that matches of any kind of official competition cannot be played “in the periods included from December 23 to January 3 of each season of the Agreement, both dates inclusive” and that during the Christmas period, ” the rest may not be in any case less than five consecutive days “.

In addition, matches cannot be held “nor will any of the activities referred to in article 8 of this Agreement be scheduled on December 24, 25 and 31 and January 1” of each season of its validity. “The AFE has sent a letter to the affected soccer players in which it remembers that they are protected and have the right, as the agreement establishes, to a break that certain clubs now want to violate,” said the presiding body David aganzo.

The union made it clear that “in the event of any violation” of what is established in the Collective Agreement, “it will denounce, on behalf of the affected soccer players, those clubs that do not comply with the provisions” in the document.