The current model of the third category of Spanish football, implemented in 2021, is in serious danger due to the lack of a sponsor, the problems with television, the increase in expenditure and the distribution for economic control
There will be turns for modest football in Spain. The First Federation, the model that the entity led by Luis Rubiales implemented in 2021 for the third category, is in serious danger of disappearing halfway through the second season.
The problems multiply in bronze football without a sponsor to name the category and multiply the revenue, and with serious television problems, as it is a platform linked to the Spanish Football Federation (FEF) itself, InSports TV, which broadcasts the matches transmits.
The triggers for a crisis that threatens the survival of the current model do not stop there, as spending by the 40 clubs in the category has increased significantly in terms of travel, since the split into two groups instead of four regulars from Second B implies greater territorial breadth, below the west-east division in this 2022-23 campaign.
Moreover, the division is total between the clubs in the category before the economic control system, a puzzle in which institutions of very different sizes and different degrees of professionalism disagree, as became clear at the meeting two years ago. the representatives of the various entities and the Federation.
The confrontation could even lead to a players’ strike before the end of the season, but even to avoid that pitfall, Spanish football’s bronze category model seems doomed to a rebuild at the moment. The alternative could be the return to the classic Second B of four groups and eighty teams, a likely option given the lack of development of a First Federation that is far from the professionalism it promised when it launched just a year and a half. past.
Source: La Verdad
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