The departure of Luis Rubiales as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation would entail the total loss of 925,761.81 euros in his gross income, between the sum of his salary as president of the Federation -675,761.87-, the 36,000 euros per year of housing aid, plus the 250,000 euros he maintained for being vice president and member of the executive committee of UEFA.
The latest data published in the RFEF’s transparency tab regarding the president’s remuneration point to a total gross amount in 2021 of 634,518.19 euros, a net figure of 339,237.12 euros, regardless of what was received by UEFA, in the one who has been vice president since 2019. This figure updated to 2022, with the rise in the CPI of 6.5 percent, brings his emoluments to 675,761.87 euros.
As EFE learned, his annual salary at UEFA is 250,000 euros gross, an amount that he could also lose if he ceased to perform these functions. In FIFA, Luis Rubiales had no position.
The RFEF Assembly approved in May 2022 a new system for the remuneration of Luis Rubiales as president with retroactive effects from January 1 of that year. Then he began to have a fixed salary plus the CPI, instead of a fixed salary and some variables depending on economic success, based on a percentage of the income of the new sponsors, as had been the case to date, after the suspicions generated by the “Super Cup case”.
It was also agreed to reduce the housing aid to the president to 3,000 euros gross per month (1,650 net) and the treasurer of the RFEF, Eduardo Bandrés, specified that the new system meant a reduction of about 50,000 euros per year.
The meeting of regional presidents held yesterday addressed this situation with the legal services of the RFEF and, given that Rubiales is provisionally suspended by FIFA, that is how it appears from now on in the federal human resources department.
Some of those attending the meeting, chaired by Pedro Rocha, president of the Extremadura Federation and now interim president of the RFEF, raised the express mention of the suspension of employment and salary to Rubiales, but Given the lack of agreement, it was left out of the text, as EFE was able to confirm in Federation sources.
Yesterday the presidents of the territorial divisions, meeting for the first time after everything that happened after the final of the Women’s World Cup, unanimously agreed to request the resignation of Luis Rubiales and if this did not occur, the door would be opened to a motion of no confidence, something that the Rubiales himself tried to do to relieve Villar and that was not necessary due to his dismissal by the TAD.
