Tuesday, November 12, 2024, 17:31
| Updated 5:40 p.m.
The Spanish football crisis committee met this Tuesday for the first time to address the analysis, reconstruction and aid to this sport in the areas affected by DANA, especially in the Valencian Community, where there are up to 37 facilities damaged, 15 of They completely devastated soccer fields. Representatives of the Spanish Football Federation (FEF), LaLiga, Liga F and the AFE and Futpro unions established a specific calendar, with specific actions to achieve this objective, after learning of the situation reports in these municipalities from the president of the Federation. of the Valencian Community, Salvador Gomar, and the president of the Federation of Castilla-La Mancha, Pablo Burillo.
While in Castilla-La Mancha, the most affected sport has been school sports, in the case of the Valencian Community the damage is multiple, affecting a total of 20,000 licenses (more than 15% of Valencian football) and more than 21,000 matches per dispute. It will be there where an in-depth survey of each of these facilities will be carried out, some of federal ownership and others municipal, to then address the reconstruction.
As an immediate measure, the travel and arbitration costs of all teams in the affected areas will be compensated. It so happens that this week the competitions will begin in Valencia in those places where possible.
“We have the responsibility of going hand in hand and we must return optimism and enthusiasm with this sport,” acknowledged the general secretary of the FEF, Álvaro de Miguel, after the meeting held in the Ciudad del Fútbol of Las Rozas. On behalf of LaLiga, Víctor Martín, Chief of Staff of the Presidency, highlighted the importance of the cordial relationship of all football stakeholders to seek solutions. “It is a treasure that we cannot lose,” he said, after recalling that LaLiga has the real will to collaborate technically and economically.
The representative of AFE, Manuel Tello, attached to the General Directorate of the football players’ union, contributed the proposal to implement a protocol to activate this organization in possible new existing crises. He insisted on the need for all operators in the world of football to be involved in any decision made in the face of any crisis and for all decisions to be consensual.
