MADRID 26 Feb. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Supreme Court has spoken in favor of the ‘end of career’ that the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) manages to establish, with their own resources, the economic benefits received by the players of the Professional League on the occasion of the end of the completion of his sports career, permanent disability or death.
According to AFE, the High Court has considered “totally lawful” that any union, with its own funds, can establish benefits aimed exclusively to its own affiliates, without “being considered affected” the right to freedom of union of any other union Don’t do it.
In this way, he has endorsed the AFE objective of guaranteeing for the players, with union resources, the same consideration as their peers receives at the end of their sports career.
The decision of the court to dismiss the lawsuit presented in 2022 soccer players on and Futpro, who do not pay these guarantees with their own funds from their unions, reinforces, according to AFE, their “commitment” to guarantee the players a career end plan ” On equal terms as that of their colleagues, assuming with its own resources the corresponding economic expenditure. “
In compliance with the agreement that came with LaLiga in the Social Hall of the National Court, AFE has been received since 2016 part of 0.5 percent of the income obtained by the joint commercial exploitation of the audiovisual rights of the competitions of professional football to allocate them, exclusively, to union activities in favor of soccer players.
In addition to training, professional promotion, health protection or emergency fund to serve soccer players in a situation, the agreement established that the income received by the unions should be used, at their own discretion, to improve the situation of professional players at the end of their sports career.
For this reason, from AFE, the regulation of the ‘End of Career’ was created to manage contributions from that 0.5 percent for first and second division soccer players, first and second RFEF.
Equal guarantees
In June 2021, the Superior Sports Council (CSD) described the Women’s Soccer League as a professional. Given this historical fact, AFE considered that, to guarantee the equality and identical protection of the players, it had An independent legal identity and an agreement other than from male football could allocate a similar percentage from the joint sale of their audiovisual rights.
To do this, in 2022 AFF modified the regulation that manages the ‘end of career’ to match the guarantees of the players with respect to their classmates, instead of distributing the funds from 0.5 percent destined for economic benefits, of Those who also participate soccer players on, with 4.06 percent.
Along the same lines, and with the intention of expanding coverage to players and players from other non -professional football categories, AFE created a year ago the ‘Future Plan’, a new savings fund for its third federation players, the first federation Futfem and Second Futfem Federation.
“Both the Supreme Court Judgment and the Prosecutor’s Office support and strengthen AFE’s commitment to compare In full the high court in his ruling, “concluded the union in the note.