We are facing a key moment in the future of Spanish women’s football. As the Sports world This week could be key on the future and the agreement on the Statutes of future professional women’s football.
It is the text that will regulate the female professional competition and whose final text is only pending the text agreed by the CSD and that it has presented to the parties. On the one hand the 12 clubs of the Association of Professional Clubs and on the other hand a group of clubs headed by Real Madrid, Barcelona and Athletic Club de Bilbao.
A text where the last fringes related to the commercial exploitation of the rights of the clubs are resolved. Especially because of the demands from the white group to be able to individually exploit these rights. Especially in those derived from audiovisual broadcasting.
Once this definitive consensus is reached and on which they have been negotiating for months, it will be when the Statutes are approved by the CSD Board of Directors.
The moment this occurs is when the presidential elections will be called and where everything indicates that it will be a woman who presides over it. María Teixidor, Former director of the Barça club, will be among the candidates.
AFE is considering actions if there is no agreement in mid-November
An agreement of the Statutes of which the union is very pending AFE and the footballers. At the moment, and as this newspaper has learned, they have been given until mid-November. If by then there was no solution in this regard, the players would consider more drastic measures to pressure and reach an agreement. Because this professional league is fundamental in the renegotiation of the female collective agreement.
There is already an agreement between the clubs and players for the holidays
First division footballers who already know what their Christmas vacation dates will be. As the Sports World has known, the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) On October 19, it convened the Joint Committee for Women’s Football to apply the Collective Agreement to comply with the provisions of article 11, in relation to the 5 additional consecutive days of vacation that must be agreed upon in said Committee.
Before this meeting, the union consulted the players of the 16 Spanish women’s soccer teams to find out their position regarding the Christmas holidays.
Proposal that your own AFE at the meeting eleven days ago he transferred the employers, who in turn presented a different proposal. After weeks of negotiations, the employers have accepted the proposal made by AFE and the soccer players will have nine days of vacation. Specifically, it is the vacation period that will include from December 24, 2021 to January 1, 2022, both included. During those days there may be neither official competition nor training. They will be of total rest.
A vacation that will take place between days 15 and 16 of the league championship. It will be on December 22 when the last day of the season will be played in the highest category of women’s football. A competition that will not return until January 9 of the new year.
In this way, the teams will also have five or six days to prepare this new day after the vacation return that will allow the players to enjoy the dates of Christmas Eve and Christmas as well as the end of the year in 2021 and the new year’s day in 2022. The union does not hide their satisfaction for having managed to reach this agreement that is part of the first existing collective agreement in the history of Spanish women’s football.
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