Pedro Rocha, the only candidate who obtained the necessary endorsements to be president of the Spanish Football Federation, who could not be proclaimed yesterday because the TAD opened a sanctioning file against him, issued a statement this afternoon to attack the TAD and the CSD and defend his innocence. Rocha proclaims himself president and announces that he is considering denouncing the TAD and the CSD for prevarication and says that “the TAD’s resolution is completely surprising and alien to all logic and legal sense.”
The former president of the Extremadura Federation and of the Managing Commission that took charge after the disqualification of Luis Rubiales has hired a legal office and will challenge the foreseeable disqualification that the Higher Sports Council (CSD) is preparing for him, as announced this morning by the president of the same, Rodríguez Uribes in a congressional commission.
In his writing, Rocha assures that, as acting president, he was forced to make decisions for the good of football and acted at all times with total and absolute transparency.
“I hope and wish that the Higher Sports Council takes due note of the serious irregularities of the resolution, which will be challenged, and acts accordingly as best legally appropriate to allow the Management Commission to continue its task and the RFEF can, as soon as possible, , get out of the interim situation that it is going through,” the statement concluded.
The Federation, for its part, issued a statement to assure that “the TAD file has nothing to do with the allegedly criminal behavior that is being investigated” by the ‘Brody case’, but rather that it was “an alleged and refuted excess in functions in an entity that has not been able to conclude its electoral process, given the multiple external interferences”.
For the Federation, it is “absolutely incomprehensible in law” that the TAD has described as “very serious” the appearance of the Federation as a private accusation in the ‘Brody case’, an operation in which it is being affected.
