The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebasis one of the protagonists of the first day of the congress World in Progress (WIP) held at the Palau de Congressos in Barcelona organized by the PRISA Group, The Country and the SER Chain. Tebas has shared a lunch/discussion under the heading ‘Geopolitics beyond football’ led by Sique Rodríguez and in which they have participated Joseph Oughourlian, president of HURRY and Pilar Gil, CEO of the company.
At the end of his colloquium, Thebes has attended the media to review current issues and has maintained in his words his confrontation with Real Madrid, club that he has accused of “oppose everything that LaLiga does and causes us great damage with its television. A damage that does not only affect LaLiga, but all the clubs in the competition. Their idea is to weaken LaLiga in order to promote other competitions such as the Super League.”.
Tebas has accused Madrid of “stretching the Negreira Case as if it were chewing gum.” Madrid believes that Negreira is in all the referees’ locker rooms at all the fields where Real Madrid plays. I remind Madrid that we went to the prosecutor’s office before Real Madrid. The president of Real Madrid spent six months on the board of directors since the Negreira issue became known and, In an assembly, he defended his then friend’s club while it was in the Super League. “The day Barça left, it seems like everything changed.”
The president of LaLiga added that “here we must say clearly that What is happening in the constant attack that FC Barcelona is suffering because a piece of gum is being stretched is unacceptable.. Barcelona will have to assume its responsibilities if it has to, but now nothing can be blamed on it because Madrid is the one asking to extend the process. The case of Barça has nothing to do with that of City and that cannot condition justice. The decision must be made here, in Spain.”
Regarding his situation after being opened a file by the CSD after his words comparing the speech of Real Madrid TV With Goebbels’ tactics, Thebes has been calm. “What is unacceptable is that they enter ex officio when there are no complaints. It is clear that they want to finish off Javier Tebas. I have not received any notification, but if you listen to what I said, it is that they use methods that are studied in many universities.”
Conflict with China
Javier Tebas has defended in the WIP the geopolitics of people, “which can never go beyond the geopolitics of states” in reference to China’s boycott of the Spanish League and Real Madrid due to the incident of Mbappé’s comment on a meme in which he was characterized as Mao Zedong, whom he referred to as a “dictator”.
“The figure of Mao is revered in China and that should be respected. Saying that was an offense that we tried to minimize,” said Tebas, who claims to be “doing everything possible to solve the situation, I think that The conflict can be resolved with time and with the contacts and bridges that we have been building with China for a long time.. “I am an advisor to the Chinese Super League, we have many commercial and financial contacts and we are about to open a subsidiary in Shanghai and Barcelona has excellent relations with China.”
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