The possible intervention of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) by FIFA does not condition Pedro Rocha’s intention to call presidential elections immediately. From these elections a president would emerge who would soon have to call new elections for the 2024-2028 Olympic cycle.
The Extremaduran leader, who serves as president of the management commission that directs the day-to-day running of the federation, is convinced that the body that governs world football will not take the reins of the RFEF, despite the fact that the Higher Sports Council (CSD) has started conversations about it. According to government sources, the dialogue with FIFA will resume next week. If FIFA intervened, the federation would create a normalization committee that would revoke the managing committee, end Rocha’s management and call a single election.
While deciding whether the federation has to digest the embarrassment of having to be intervened, Rocha tries to convey normality. This Tuesday he had no qualms about giving a badge to the Spanish internationals who have made their debut in this squad (Vivian, Cubarsí and Remiro) and to those who have played 25 games (Sarabia, Oyarzabal, Laporte and Dani Olmo).
Rocha behaves as if nothing was happening within an institution that last Wednesday saw several of its leaders arrested by members of the UCO within the framework of Operation Brody. The arrests and the landing of the Civil Guard at the Las Rozas federation facilities put the image of Spanish football and sport around the world in disrepair. The president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, warned that it was neither the time nor the most appropriate climate to call elections. Only a week after the scandal, for Rocha the time has returned to call the elections in which he intends to present himself as a man of peace and consensus whom LaLiga views favorably after having withdrawn the RFEF from the lawsuit against the employers’ agreement. with CVC.
Rocha also defends having gotten rid of the death rattles of blondism, even though he did so when there was no other choice. Shortly after assuming the presidency of the managing committee and, pressured by the world champions after the scandal of Rubiales’ non-consensual kiss with Jenni Hermoso, Rocha dispensed with the general secretary Andreu Camps, the integrity director Miguel García Caba, and the women’s coach Jorge Vilda and the communications director Pablo García Cuervo. Last Thursday he dared to end Tomás González Cueto’s time as external commissioner of the federation, but only as a result of his arrest and given his status as an under investigation. The director of legal services, Pedro González Segura, and the director of Human Resources, José Javier Jiménez, were also removed from their positions after being arrested.
Rocha is running for the federative presidency as a guarantee of the stability of the federation, although he was a faithful pawn of Rubiales when he argued over everything with LaLiga and its president Javier Tebas. As of 2020, Rocha was appointed by Rubiales as president of the economic commission; However, he did not hold the Granada leader accountable when in 2021 The confidential uncovered the audios known as Supercopa Files. In the aforementioned files, details of the federation contract and Gerard Piqué’s commission to bring the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia were revealed. Despite everything, the federation assures that Rocha has nothing to do with the concession contracts to Gruconsa, of which González Segura’s brother is a partner, for the remodeling works of La Cartuja. They also intend to remove responsibility from the president for not delivering the documentation required by Judge Delia Rodríguez, a fact that caused Operation Brody to be unleashed.
Rocha is also convinced that the Sports Administrative Court will not disqualify him for not calling elections when he assumed the presidency of the managing commission and for having exceeded his duties, as the TAD itself already pointed out.
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