If Gerard Piqué wanted to establish a new agreement with the Spanish Football Federation of Luis Rubiales through his company Kosmos like the one that linked them, through commissions, for the organization of the Super Cup in Saudi Arabia, it would no longer be legal.
This is explicitly established by the new Sports Law, whose wording is already closed and will be voted on in the Congress of Deputies. Piqué is not mentioned in the text, but section B of article 47 includes a clause that evokes the commercial relationship established by the Barcelona defender, the Spanish Federation and Saudi Arabia on account of the Super Cup. This section reads as follows: “For the organization of these official sports activities and competitions at the state level, no commercial relationship may be established with an active athlete likely to participate in them.”
It is an amendment that was included at the proposal of the Popular Party and that received the support of the PSOE and United We Can. “There is a clear example right? I don’t have to put the name. A president of a Federation cannot have a commercial relationship with an athlete who is part of a competition organized by that same Federation. These are the words of the PP deputy, Javier Merino, intellectual author of this clause.
In April ‘El Confidencial’ revealed the role of Piqué’s company in the agreement to bring the Super Cup to Saudi Arabia. A case that raised a lot of dust but that at that time was not illegal, as the footballer underlined in some audios that came to light. When the Sports Law comes into force, this clause will not have retroactive effects.
