This announcement comes the day after the Spanish government's decision to place the federation, at the center of turmoil for several months, under supervision. The Superior Sports Council (CSD), an organization dependent on the Ministry of Sports, has created a “supervision, standardization and representation commission” chaired by “independent personalities” to exercise supervision of the RFEF “during the coming months “.
Already shaken by the forced kiss scandal which led to the resignation of Rubiales and the dismissals of several leaders, the RFEF is now at the center of a corruption investigation in which the former strongman of Spanish football and his interim successor at the head of the Federation, Pedro Rocha, are indicted.
This case concerns irregularities in the contracts signed by the RFEF over the last five years, during the presidency of Luis Rubiales, including the lucrative contract concluded to relocate the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia.
