Traveling with Chester lands again tonight at Cuatro with Risto Mejide and his interview with Luis Rubiales, president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, who has harshly attacked the president of La Liga, Javier Tebas. And it is that Rubiales accuses his nemesis of being behind a “constant attack” against him that has made him resort to the courts: “I am going to start denouncing issues that I think are done wrong”, he has advanced without specifying more.
“I am not comfortable with him,” says Rubiales about Tebas, who he says “manipulates” in his criticism of the RFEF management and with whom he does not want to speak after his request for disqualification: “I am never going to sit down and talk to someone who lies and hurts me to get me out of the place where I am ”, warned the president of the Federation.
In addition, Luis Rubiales has gone further in Viajando con Chester, accusing Tebas of spending “30 million on advertising for the media” so that they constantly attack him with “false” news: “The media are at the service of the powerful because we are Annoyed, before they had the Copa del Rey and now we have democratized it”, Rubiales reminded Risto.
In this sense, Rubiales has compared himself to Sandro Rosell because of the persecution he feels has hung over him since he led the RFEF and regrets what the former president of FC Barcelona suffered: “They have agreed and they have blown it up, it has I’ve been in jail for two years being innocent”, explains the Spanish soccer president, who believes that both cases have “a lot to do with it”.
Rubiales has also spoken about Barça in Viajando con Chester, specifically about the controversial Negreira case: “We think it is tremendous that there is a person in a body that receives money from a club”, commented the president of the RFEF, who has also pointed out that it had precisely come to light “at a time when there was talk of how bad La Liga is”, which could “be used to cover up other news”.
Rubiales has not avoided the controversy surrounding the accusation of sexual assault against Dani Alves either, although he recalled that “there have been cases where someone’s innocence has been proven and they have been crushed”, but ultimately the margin is maintained: “I don’t I like to be nobody’s judge, I trust justice”, the guest in Traveling with Chester has sentenced.
In this eventful episode, Risto Mejide criticized Rubiales that the women’s Spanish Super Cup champions had to collect the medals themselves, an act that the RFEF president admits was “a tremendous mess” and that “at the level of image was disastrous” in full evolution for equality between men’s and women’s football: “When I saw it I said, this is fatal, they are going to kill us”, he revealed.
Another thorny issue for Rubiales was Spain’s participation in the 2022 World Cup in Qatar and the lack of public gestures in defense of the LGTB collective that Risto has reproached him with: “We put on our kit, jumped onto the field and played the game, what are we going to do?”, the head of the Federation responded, who believes that the best thing to do was to participate in the tournament to have an impact on Qatari society.
Another hot point of the World Cup was the non-renewal of Luis Enrique as national coach, whom Rubiales thanks for his “exceptional work” and who he assures that “he has made very brave decisions and has brought very young boys” to the national team. but with whom he did not talk about his future in the telephone conversation they had after the World Cup, as he has admitted in Traveling with Chester.
The most emotional moment of the talk between Risto and Rubiales was the story of how the daughter of the RFEF president supported him by bearing his last name: “Hey daddy, I’m going to wear number 17 like you,” promised his daughter, who told him He sent a photo with the number and “Rubiales” instead of his name, Elena: “That your 10-year-old daughter says I am Rubiales and here I am… makes me feel very proud”, he admitted on the verge of tears.
Rubiales has also revealed the accident due to a fall and the subsequent recovery that his daughter experienced, and how they were about to “drill her brain” to save her life, something that was not finally necessary. Precisely on paternity, Risto has shared a final reflection that has been applauded by the president of the RFEF: “Your inner ‘I’ is an apartment and when you have children you discover a door that leads to a room much larger than everything you had” .
