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This Friday, together with his resignation, Luis Manuel Rubiales Béjar, will go away the submit of president of the Royal Federation (RFEF) this Friday after beginning on Could 17, 2018, coming from the Spanish Footballers Affiliation (AFE). 5 years during which Rubiales has had extra issues than pleasure…

It’s not an agreed or calm farewell, it’s a traumatic and controversial farewell, the results of a collection of insufficient and inappropriate attitudes of the very best consultant of Spanish soccer: obscene gestures within the field the place the ultimate of the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand was performed, the kiss to Jenni Hermoso, some defiant statements…

On a sporting entrance, Rubiales’ tenure has ended with two essential and prestigious triumphs in 2023: the UEFA Nations League (Spain beat Croatia on penalties within the remaining in Enschede) and the Ladies’s World Cup (Spain beat England 1-0 within the remaining in Sydney).

If the sporting joys have been delayed nearly till the tip of his tenure, the gloom has been fast to seem. The primary was the sacking of Julen Lopetegui a couple of hours earlier than Spain’s debut on the Russia 2018 World Cup after it emerged that he would be part of Actual Madrid as soon as the match was over.

The substitute of Fernando Hierro by Julen Lopetegui didn’t bode effectively and, ultimately, Spain stated goodbye to the World Cup in Russia after a colorless group stage (3-3 towards Portugal, 1-0 towards Iran and 2-2 towards Morocco) and dropping within the spherical of 16 towards the hosts on penalties.

That very same yr, sources claimed that he had travelled to New York and paid for his journey with cash from the Federation’s coffers. In line with El Confidencial, “he simulated conferences with the United Nations and Main League Soccer (MLS) to spend six days within the USA, the place he was accompanied by a Mexican painter”.

The president of the RFEF additionally suffered important put on and tear for arranging the 2019 Spanish Tremendous Cup in Saudi Arabia after making a cope with Gerard Piqué. In line with El Confidencial, “audios, conversations and paperwork reveal that Rubiales and the Barça defender allied to cost a multimillion-dollar fee for holding the Tremendous Cup on Saudi soil”.

In 2022, a 2020 scandal was uncovered: Rubiales and his interior circle, in line with El Confidencial, “used company financial institution playing cards of the physique to pay bills associated to a controversial vacation in a villa in Salobreña (Granada) in August 2020”. A celebration, allegedly, with “a gaggle of eight to 10 younger women”.

In 2020 he needed to cope with Iker Casillas, who introduced his candidacy for the RFEF and his intention to face within the early elections known as by Rubiales. The previous Actual Madrid and Spain goalkeeper, World Cup winner in South Africa in 2010, was clear that “we’re going to convey our Federation as much as the extent of the perfect soccer on the earth: that of Spain”. Casillas, nonetheless, took a step again and left the sector clear for Rubiales.

Rubiales, igualmente, ha mantenido estos años un intenso cara a cara con el presidente de LaLiga, Javier Tebas, una enemistad que viene de lejos. Ambos se posicionaron para hacerse con el management del fútbol español, hecho que los llevó a duros enfrentamientos verbales, con episodios que han terminado en manos de la justicia.

Rubiales, likewise, has maintained an intense face-to-face confrontation with the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, an enmity that goes again a great distance. The 2 males have been able to take management of Spanish soccer, a indisputable fact that led to harsh verbal clashes, with episodes which have ended up within the palms of the courts.