As MD learned, the coach Luis de la FuenteEuropean champion, continues the same contract he signed in December 2022 when he was named as Luis Enrique’s replacement, a situation that may seem completely anomalous but it has an explanation. Both because of the Euro Cup dispute last summer and what happened to the federation with the disqualification of RFEF president Pedro Rocha.
On June 4, the RFEF announced, a few days before the start of the Euro Cup, the renewal of members of its coaching staff. Due to the renewal of the capital, as happened in Riojan, their contract ended on June 30 and in the middle of the tournament. That’s why the national coach came out of the picture of the whole work team and when the sides of them all were closed. For the coach, it is also important that his team knows their new situation before traveling to Germany.
But with that announcement nothing has changed regarding the situation of Luis de la Fuente which, as we have previously announced in MD, has been fixed since last February 22. On that day, the Management Committee of the RFEF agreed , in the absence of a Board of Directors since Luis Rubiales was suspended by FIFA in August, the proposal presented by then president of the management company and later president of the federation, Pedro Rocha.
The proposal relates to the full national coach and in which Luis de la Fuente maintains the same financial values that he has received since he took office in December 2022 after the departure of Luis Enrique. The contract was extended until the end of the 2026 World Cup A necessary renewal because his contract ended in the middle of the Euro Cup and then the date of the elections for the electoral process that ended in April is unknown.
And so on, until the new president comes.
During the Euro Cup, the president Pedro Rocha and the coach agreed on the numbers for the new contract, especially after the tournament. But it appears that Pedro Rocha was disqualified by the TAD on Tuesday, July 16, a situation that explains the electoral process that the deadline for the presentation of candidates begins this Thursday. Let us not forget that the renewal of a coach is the power of the president to be approved by the Board of Directors as established by the RFEF Statutes, something that has never happened.
This explains why Luis de la Fuente has not yet been able to renew his contract, a situation that Riojan will initially maintain until the next president is elected in the next four years. However, it may be that the president elected in this first electoral process may bring it to the same Board of Directors when the next electoral process is called. Then there was a total predisposition from the RFEF to improve it but the times and the federative situation prevented it until now.
Source: La Verdad
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