Javier Tebas He harshly criticized the ways of Real Madrid and its decision not to attend the 2024 Ballon d’Or gala in Paris after learning that its footballer Vinicius would not be awarded. The president of LaLiga gave an interview to the newspaper ‘The Team‘, one of the organizers of the controversial award together with France Football and UEFA, in which the “victimism” of the current Spanish and European champion stood out.
«I am a Madrid fan. The important values of this club are being a gentleman and shaking hands when you lose, but I think Real Madrid lost that mentality a long time ago,” he lamented to the French midfielder.
«They should have gone to the ceremony and not questioned the system of ‘France Football‘, which is transparent, with one hundred journalists voting. Real Madrid’s victimhood makes no sense and is exaggerated. “I don’t know where they are going,” added the president of the Spanish club employers’ association, who in reference to Real Madrid and its actions assured that “We also experience this lack of elegance in Spain”.
Knowing his tense relationship with Florentino Pérez, president of Real Madrid, Javier Tebas did not miss this opportunity to make the white club’s behavior ugly, but it was not the only touchy subject he touched on in his interview with ‘The Team‘, where he also talked about Mbappé, the Super League and the Club World Cup or racism in Spain.
Regarding Real Madrid’s brand new summer signing, Tebas first assured, regarding its impact, that “a player does not compete in a competition and the effects of his arrival cannot be calculated in three months.”
And regarding the fact that the French forward is not meeting expectations in these first months dressed in white, he threw a cape at him: «Mbappé has not forgotten how to play football. It will give afternoons and nights of joy to all the people of Madrid and to all of Spanish football. He was a crack and will continue to be a crack. In Spain we are often very impatient.
The Super League and the Club World Cup
In the Superliga matter, the president of LaLiga, always very belligerent in this regard, was brief but concise: «Where Florentino is I am always afraid… It occupies me and worries me».
Tebas believes that FIFA should give up organizing the Club World Cup scheduled for next summer: “I’m not sure it will be held. The economic issues do not seem to have been resolved to give the clubs what was promised. And if FIFA achieves it, it will have to explain how… It seems that they have promised between 40 and 50 million euros to the big European clubs involved…»
The dispute of this new tournament will mean an increase in matches that has even led to the suggestion of a possible players strike: «I hear what they say. The Club World Cup not only harms elite players, but everyone else. It affects two seasons, the one that ends and the one that begins. “This endangers the physical and mental health of the participants and affects the value of national competitions.”
«The court of the European Union recognizes that FIFA and UEFA have a monopoly, but that they cannot make unilateral decisions, that they must act with transparency, without discrimination, with clear rules. If FIFA continues to behave as it does with this Club World Cup, it is putting itself in danger. He is doing everything possible to have his monopoly declared illegal. FIFA is misusing the resources at its disposal. “He does not act for the good of football in general.”
Finally, regarding racism in the Spanish league, Tebas assures in ‘The Team‘that “occupies us a lot. There are one or two people who make these screams. Before there were a hundred. We detect them and report them. People are increasingly aware that these cries must be reported. I would like all competitions to do as much as we do».
