The General Assembly of the RFEF has not approved the calendar for the 2021-2022 season because it has collided with LaLiga again in its preparation. The employer's association had agreed with the AFE footballers union and sent a proposal which seems that the RFEF itself does not agree and a consensus is being sought. Last season there was also a LaLiga-RFEF conflict for this reason and the matter reached the CSD, who had to act as an intermediary.
The calendar has been a source of problems lately for LaLiga and the RFEF. In recent campaigns they have collided, on previous occasions it was solved with some retouching of the employer's proposal, but last season the conflict had to be resolved with the intervention of the Higher Sports Council. This year, he has crashed again at that point and could go back to the CSD. “We are waiting for the CSD to decide between the positions of LaLiga and the RFEF. It dictates the calendar. There are some differences regarding the schedule and the draw. For the RFEF to be able to make the draw, it is essential that LaLiga send us the conditions. We do not have a calendar or conditions. When we have it, because it is its competence, the RFEF will carry out the draw for the calendar, “said Andreu Camps, Secretary General during the Assembly.
The First Division is scheduled to start on August 15. As Thebes and Aganzo had agreed, this year the players will once again have more Christmas vacation time. The start of the holidays will be on December 21-22 and not on December 24. In addition, They agreed that the first day after said break, which would be already on the 31st or in the new year, be matches between teams of geographical proximity. That is, between clubs in the same Community or nearby that involve short journeys for the players.
Until there is an agreement, none of the calendars of the different categories and divisions of Spanish football cannot be drawn.José Manuel Franco, president of the CSD, who will have to settle this conflict, already left a detail in his speech in the Assembly: “I consider myself a person who seeks consensus. What is born of the agreement creates certainty and sport needs it now more never”.
In addition to the calendar, Rubiales also mentioned LaLiga in one of the points of the Assembly that he called negative: “We have gone from having 31 conflicts in the courts to having 112. There are people who take things through criminal proceedings when they shouldn't be. On top of that, they have satellite associations that lend themselves to this. We have even found writings from lawyers from these associations that They work in LaLiga. We have all won the criminal trials. Of the rest, we have won 90%. “