The Government will listen to the clubs

close two hours the meeting this afternoon had the professional soccer with the Minister of Culture and Sports, Michael Iceta. A meeting that responds to concern in Spanish professional football clubs with Future Sports Law, especially after the withdrawal of the amendments by the PSOE and the PP.

The fourteen clubs of the Delegate Commission (Atletico de Madrid, Levante, Seville, Betis, Real Sociedad, Cádiz, Villarreal, Getafe, Alavés, Tenerife, Eibar, Las Palmas, Lugo and Huesca) with the president of the employers’ association Javier Thebes represents the delegation of professional football.

In it they transferred to the head of the sport in Spain his concern after a few weeks ago both the PSOE and the PP withdraw the amendments submitted to the new Sports Law, which is still in process.

Concern about the Super League

This departure affects the meaning that facilitating the proliferation of external projectssuch as the project of super league European, which could do a lot of damage to the Spanish competition.

The amendment they withdrew now allows a club participating in a competition outside of UEFA and FIFA to be allowed and processed for a licenseas will be the case of the future Super League led by Real Madrid with Barcelona, ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

But not the only word of future sports legislation that put professional football on alert. The new text also seems to allow federations to gain power approve its Regulations without consulting the leagues in addition to not recognizing professional competitions to exploit their commercial rights, as it does in the case of non-professional competitions that fall under different sports federations.

the dialogue has begun

This Tuesday started a dialogue under the government’s promise to listen to their petitions. For now, according to Jose Castro, president of Sevilla, they don’t handle violent options; “They listened to us and they will try to solve the problems, we will start the house from the beginning and not from the roof. What we are asking is normal, I hope the politicians understand”.

Quico Catalan, president of I raised who, like his name from the Sevillian club, in the beginning violent options are not considered. In the next few days they will send the government some texts with which they can work: “We see a viable dialogue based on understanding and in the next few days we will pass some texts to do. If from the dialogue it doesn’t work, let’s see what happens.”

It’s just started but if it doesn’t work correctly, the employer’s break of football is like the final stage