Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 1:39 p.m.
Luis Rubiales had been in the background for some time, watching the bulls from the sidelines while waiting for the judicial proceedings in which he is implicated for alleged corruption to be resolved, but in the last few hours he has come to the fore to emphasize that al front of the Spanish Football Federation (FEF) was clean and announced complaints to safeguard its honor.
The former footballer, trade unionist and leader perhaps takes advantage of the fact that now the focus is not focused on the clubs and the League due to the break for national team matches, such as the one Spain played on Saturday with a victory against Denmark in Murcia and the one faced Serbia this Tuesday in Córdoba.
Perhaps Rubiales also understands that it is a good time to return to the scene in the midst of the morass in which the FEF continues to be installed, without a president after the disqualification of Pedro Rocha, considered its dolphin, and without elections because the justice system paralyzed the process at the request of Miguel Ángel Galán, president of the coaches association (Cenafe).
Rubiales “never” committed a crime of corruption in his five years in office, between 2018 and 2023, at the head of said organization, and will present a complaint against the “false” attack by Miguel Ángel Galán, stated the legal representatives of the former Canary Islands president, but settled in Motril (Granada) in statements collected by Europa Press and confirmed by this means.
Specifically, this complaint has to do with recent statements by Galán in an interview with the Catalan newspaper Mundo Deportivo in which he stated, among other issues, that “corruption has been installed in the federation for many years,” including the stages of Ángel María Villar and Luis Rubiales. As for Villar, Rubiales has stated that “he hopes and wishes that he proves his innocence.”
Focusing on Galán’s complaint about Rubiales’ way of acting, the former Levante player’s lawyers, among other clubs, assure that it is “absolutely false that there has been any type of corruption.” «This statement by Mr. Galán will be answered in court with a complaint where we will defend ourselves. This fallacious attack is one more of those carried out by this man, within a continued strategy to ‘kill Rubiales’,” the lawyers denounced.
Rubiales and his team of lawyers insist on the idea that no case of corruption can ever be found in the five years in which he was at the head of Spanish football and they expressed their conviction that this will be demonstrated in court. “The management of Luis Rubiales, despite the insidiousness leveled against him, has always been clean and there has never been even a hint of corruption,” they stressed.
