The Spanish League, as soon as mushy give you the option and nation model, is changing into Sainete Grotesco and Goyesco Espentanto.
It’s inconceivable, when it comes to sports activities cleansing, accountability and respectability of the competitors, that the membership that for 17 years paid the individual answerable for evaluating the referees, of ascending, descending them, rewarding them or sending them to the “fridge”, continues to compete as if such a factor.
Recapitulating, at this time we all know that Enriquez Negreira, in his lengthy stage as vice chairman of the CTA, charged Barça price between 7.3 and eight.4 million euros. “Verbal recommendation”, movies, technical studies.
Or, because the prosecution suspects, systematic manipulation of arbitration in its favor.
The instruction speaks of “systemic corruption”; that this cash wouldn’t be “if not reported sports activities advantages.”
The previous vice chairman of the Technical Referees Committee (CTA), José María Enriquez Negreira (I), upon his arrival within the metropolis of Justice of Barcelona, in March 2024.
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In the meantime, the Superior Sports activities Council, a political arm of the Authorities of Spain, permits Barça to register gamers with accounting juggles, whereas the remaining is supervised till the final cent.
Unequaldad, amnesty, privilege: greater than a membership, greater than the regulation.
The numbers don’t lie. Between 2004 and 2018, the “arbitration stability” of Barça within the League was scandalous: +71 penalties in favor (122 in favor, 51 towards) and +48 expulsions (97 to rivals, surpassing Actual Madrid by 68 collectively).
These are the target information of a contest beneath suspicion.
Within the Cup and the Tremendous Cup, Tournaments depending on the RFEF, the distinction is much more surreal.
Barça maintained a +40 stability between penalties and expulsions. Actual Madrid, however, has a detrimental arbitral stability, made uncommon in a dominant membership.
The information of the identical groups, in the identical seasons, in European competitions, are fully totally different.
And now what?

After a number of days of this league and plainly the “new” CTA is worse than the “outdated”: it doesn’t hassle or save the kinds.
What have been beforehand suspicious figures is now a shameless choreography: targets annulled to Actual Madrid by the hair of a prawn; expulsions to rivals from Barcelona (the true basic Spanish soccer); the var that goes out and turns to comfort; Targets marked with rivals on the bottom.
We face an illustrative operetta of created pursuits, due favors and tacit consensus.
It’s the logical consequence of the Spanish Confederation between unequal during which the 78 regime has degenerated: some with its personal farm, amnesty and ordinality, others corresponding to comparsas that pay and shut up.
On this monipodio courtyard, the function of Actual Madrid, true staff of the city, deserves a separate chapter. Some official assertion, the well-known-private movies on their personal tv channel, and a number of other pinches of nun by way of digital camera journalists.
Madrid is at this time a worldwide big caught within the failed construction of an uneven nation. Its mere presence produces hostility, and what it represents generates indisimulated discomfort.
“The issue shouldn’t be the Champions, however a Spanish League made to the best glory of the ‘disarmed military’ of Catalan nationalism”
Florentino Pérez, even for its deserves the second coming of Santiago Bernabéu, shouldn’t be going to be eliminated by the prudent systemic entrepreneur. He has not gone badly, both Actual Madrid – no less than internationally.
Inexplicably, sure, he continues to go hand in hand with Joan Laporta aboard that Titanic drifting that at some point was the European Tremendous League undertaking.
He’s mistaken with enemy. As in so many different areas, Europe shouldn’t be the issue, however neither is the answer to very our issues. UEFA, with its taras and easements, has been our refuge on this darkish derives from our nation.
For all these causes, I enable myself to provide Florentino a free thought, in case the Bernabéu pioneer flame remains to be alive: the issue shouldn’t be the Champions League, however a Spanish league made to the best glory of the “unarmed military” of Catalan nationalism.
Actual Madrid, inventor of the European Cup, ought to now invent the Hispanic or Latin League: Actual Madrid, Juventus, Porto, River, Boca, Santos, America of Mexico, and so forth. And even the American franchises of Miami and Los Angeles, cities as Hispanic talking as Madrid itself.
Don’t forget that though your eyes and mind let you know in any other case, Barça shouldn’t be our enemy. Florentino made it very clear within the Meeting. Let’s go hand in hand. pic.twitter.com/ceuk10ilnb
— Natalia Pastor (@NataliaPastor) February 17, 2025
Think about Actual Madrid taking part in in La Bombonera, the monumental of Buenos Aires, Maracaná. Think about then the American giants visiting the Bernabéu.
With out summer time excursions: this might be an actual competitors, each month, in legendary phases. International affect, enormous ticket places of work, great trumpet to the Premier, tv rights on all continents …
And a clear competitors, with out places of work of dispatch, with worldwide referees, transcending our homeland miseries.
It’s price this concept, half jokingly, to recollect what’s at stake. That’s now not the way forward for Actual Madrid or the maltrecha cleansing of the competitors: it’s the nation’s very credibility.
The League has develop into showcase of our worst vices. The scenario will be reversed as soon as once more to the Spanish -speaking world, from the Zocalo to Cornellá.
Actual Madrid has one other historic mission, and a dilemma: or stay a figurant in a farce that despises it, or taking a step ahead, historical past to be executed, main a brand new and world undertaking that speaks Spanish.
Maybe thus additionally contributes to catharsis and regeneration that our nation wants a lot.
*** Carlos Conde Solares is a college professor and is a part of the Nationwide Govt Committee of the Spanish Left.



























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