The First Division clubs of the National Futsal League (LNFS) demand from the Higher Sports Council (CSD) and the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) “an urgent resolution” on their professionalization and request that they “be more prudent” and do not question “the lack of maturity and economic stability” of the competition with data that “have not been verified”.
After the “silence” following the request submitted by the LNFS on October 7, 2022 for the qualification of the competition as professional, “the First Division teams sent two burofaxes to the CSD and to the parliamentary groups of the PSOE and Unidas Podemos to show their disagreement with the criteria set forth by their political representatives to vote against professionalization in the Culture and Sport Commission”.
The LNFS assured through a statement that the information offered by the RFEF is “partial” and that it “undermines the thirty-four years of history that supports the LNFS”, calling this situation “an unprecedented silence”.
“Dialogue and rigor are strongly requested from the coalition government and the CSD to avoid the use of data that have not been contrasted and that lack foundation on the economic sustainability of the competition and the absence of solid labor structures,” said the LNFS.
“If they continue to do so publicly, both institutions would be suspiciously aligning themselves with the denial theses of the RFEF, which only seeks its own benefit and not that of sport, as it has already demonstrated with its refusal to create the F League,” the sports association said. .
In turn, the LNFS assured that the confrontation of the figures “would expose the CSD and demonstrate that a comparative injury is taking place with futsal and tremendous damage to clubs that scrupulously comply with legal requirements.”
In its statement, the LNFS recalled that “the CSD has a report that includes the figures for the economic and media return generated by the First Division of Futsal and its clubs” and stressed that “the decision is being unjustifiably delayed, politicizing it and instrumentalizing it to favor the interests of the RFEF with government inaction, thus breaking all the principles of fairness and transparency required”.
“The members of the National Futsal League reiterated with conviction that professionalization is the only way to build the sustainable future of the sport, thus following in the footsteps of the F League and the structures could be consolidated and the conditions of all the players improved. futsal as players and coaches”, he concluded.
