That the role of LaLiga has been key to restarting competitions in Spain after confinement was beyond doubt until last Monday. So much so that the employers, as you have been able to know ACE, was going to lead an act as a celebration last Wednesday at the headquarters of the Higher Sports Council to celebrate the success that basketball, motor sports and soccer have been able to celebrate their competitions (almost completely) despite the coronavirus pandemic. In fact, LaLiga was called to participate as the locomotive of this event and its president, Javier Tebas, was going to have a mass bath explaining how these months have been worked to make a wish come true and who were responsible for an achievement that other European and American competitions, including the NBA, have taken good note of. The ACB and Carmelo Ezpeleta were also invited. The Fue Fuenlabrada Case ’forced to suspend everything urgently.
The CSD wanted to show in that event that the return of competitions in Spain has meant a success of safe sport, as demonstrated by the Final Phase of the Endesa ACB Basketball League in Valencia; the culmination, last Sunday, of La Liga Santander; or the restart of the MotoGP World Championship tests last weekend at the Jerez-Ángel Nieto Circuit. However, the crisis caused by the last matchday of Segunda caused the match to be canceled. Even so, The Council itself came to recognize last Wednesday, when it criticized in a statement some mistakes made by LaLiga and Fuenlabrada, that everything had been almost perfect: “It has been shown that competitions can be held even in complicated sanitary circumstances, when demanding sanitary protocols are established and complied with, and when unity in sport prevails. This has been the case since the Pacts of Viana, and the subsequent codes of conduct and health protocols, with which the sector as a whole has gone hand in hand in the fight against the pandemic and has worked for the restoration of competitions. “
And added in this text: “In the case of soccer, safe sport has functioned with unquestionable success, thanks to the collaboration between the health authorities, the CSD, LaLiga and the RFEF, and the enormous commitment shown by the clubs, the players and the fans. Since last June 11, 220 official professional soccer games have been held and there has only been one incident. This means that 99.6% of the competition has been successfully held “.
The remaining 0.4% corresponds to the 'Fuenlabrada Case'. A problem with 16 positives, with the Madrid team isolated in a hotel in A Coruña and with the Second arrested in the middle of the Promotion Playoff that will make it almost impossible for this institutional 'party' to congratulate for the restart of the competition to be held in the future. LaLiga, and specifically Thebes, talks about “disloyalty” of the CSD, so relations and plans have changed a lot in a single week.