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(Be aware: This textual content by the lawyer Miguel María García-Caba was initially printed in his X account, @MMGARCIACABA).
On July 9, 2025, José Alberto Peláez, solely competitors choose, acquired the appliance for postponement of a First Division social gathering. Pressing. Obligatory It was not a whim: it was to stop newcomers from the Membership World Cup play with out the minimal relaxation.
The reply got here on July 31. Twenty -two days later. Sufficient to shut the workplace, go on trip and go away the matter taking mud. The urgency, ignored. Widespread sense, buried.
What signed was not a decision: it was a door. A portazo sports activities medication. To elementary logic. To the integrity of the competitors.
He takes refuge within the regulation. At all times the regulation. However everyone knows that when it’s , it’s interpreted, adapts, bends. This time not. This time it was utilized as a hammer. And probably the most overwhelmed membership was, objectively, Actual Madrid.
Above Peláez, within the command tower, is Rafael Louzán Abal, the violinist of the Titanic who smiles whereas the ship sinks. And above all, Javier Tebas Medrano, president of LaLiga, vice chairman of the Federation … and with a nicely -known animosity towards Actual Madrid. He isn’t a passenger: he’s the patron of the ship. Mark the course. Resolve the aim. And level the place to shoot. Let’s not neglect that, earlier than Peláez issued his decision, Thebes had already made public statements saying that the social gathering shouldn’t be postponed and brazenly criticizing Actual Madrid.
Such a blow shouldn’t be impartial. Change dynamics. Change states of kind. Change outcomes. A misplaced level in August is value the identical as in Could. This non -postponing isn’t just a blow to a sport: it is a blow to the season
Does anybody actually imagine {that a} choose who is dependent upon the Federation, whose vice chairman has already marked the road publicly, can determine with out that shadow on his desk?
In any severe system, that conduct could be unacceptable, as a result of it isn’t sufficient for a choose to be neutral: it should additionally appear.
And the identical – or much more – should be required to a vice chairman of the Federation, who mustn’t publicly anticipate the that means of a decision or load towards one of many events. As a result of, when it does, not solely contaminates the choose’s impartiality look: it contaminates the complete establishment.
This isn’t independence. That is manipulation. The 2025/26 League begins vitiated, altered, manipulated. A crew begins in bodily and tactical inferiority by resolution, not by probability.
They communicate of “integrity of the competitors.” Integrity? Make a crew exhausted compete whereas others have weeks of preparation? Apply the norm as a garrote for some and as a purple carpet for others? That isn’t integrity: it’s management. It’s account adjustment.
And that no one is fooled: such a blow shouldn’t be impartial. Change dynamics. Change states of kind. Change outcomes. A misplaced level in August is value the identical as in Could. This isn’t only a blow to a sport: it is a blow to the season.
The choose who ought to defend the competitors was taken 22 days to say “no.” Thus begins the championship: with the already manipulated calendar. And the query stays: if this occurs earlier than the ball is, what’s going to come when arbitration selections arrive?
Soccer doesn’t defend with hole speeches. It defends itself with information. And the actual fact is that this: José Alberto Peláez has signed a direct blow to the well being of the gamers and the equality of the competitors.
And now the main target strikes. As a result of this story doesn’t finish right here. Now will probably be time to determine the Nationwide Second Occasion Committee, which presumably could have on the desk the attraction of Actual Madrid. The query is evident: will they’ve the worth of correcting a choice that smells like unequal remedy, or will they be restricted to endorse it in order to not trouble those that mark the course from above? That no one forgets it: this organ can be a part of the federative construction. And right here, independence not solely should be exercised: it should be demonstrated.
In the present day has been Actual Madrid. Tomorrow it may be anybody. As a result of whereas José Alberto Peláez agency from the workplace and Javier Thebas marks the course, sports activities justice is not going to be within the stadiums. He will probably be on trip, and the music will proceed to sound on that drifting ship, with the violinist Rafael Louzán enjoying as if nothing.
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