The CAS proposes to disqualify the presidents of Territorials and that of Rioja is “calm”

The Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) proposes the disqualification for two months for the presidents of regional soccer federations, including Jacinto Alonso, who in 2017 signed a letter of support to the former president of the Spanish Federation, Ángel María Villar, as recently published by the Iusport web portal.

This medium, like AS, have had access to the case instructor's file and its resolution, although this is not yet public. It also indicates that, in February 2017, a total of 16 territorial federations signed a letter in which they supported Angel María Villar, who was then immersed in the electoral process of the institution.

A football coach denounced this letter to the CAS, considering that it went against the neutrality that the presidents of regional federations should have in this process. The CAS upheld the claim and affected, in a first case, the obligation of neutrality of the presidents of territorial federations, for which a sanction of disqualification was proposed to a minimum, that would be two months.

The same investigator of the file explained that, in this case, dismissal could also have been proposed, although he believed it excessive, or only a public reprimand, which he believed insufficient. Iusport adds that the file for those who signed that letter “expired” in July 2019, after which another similar one was initiated, with the same sanction proposal as then, which would be the one that the CAS will publish shortly.

The president of the Rioja Football Federation, Jacinto Alonso, assured this Tuesday that he is “calm” because he has not done “anything”. before the possibility of being disqualified two months to exercise his position. Alonso, after visiting the Pradoviejo sports facilities in Logroño on Tuesday, said that he did not sign that letter or publish it on the Riojan Federation website, as other territorial ones did.

In addition, he recalled that this issue “is out of date” and “was also appealed to the Constitutional Court, which has admitted it.” Alonso said that he feels “helpless” in the face of what has been published. “If someone is able to bring my signature on that letter or finds where my Federation published it, I resign,” he said.

“I am calm because I have not done anything”, he stressed, “and I am focused on things that are on the front page, such as returning to activity and training for children.”