The players of the Spanish soccer team have been left without an audience in the Zarzuela. Scheduled for Tuesday, September 19, the Royal Spanish Football Federation, responsible for organizing the call for the players as the body on which the national team depends, informed Zarzuela a few days ago of the impossibility of fulfilling that commitment, without it having been revealed. the reasons, beyond the crisis unleashed in the entity by the Rubiales case.
After the team’s victory, Zarzuela chose to postpone the official reception of the champions at Zarzuela for a few weeks, given that the players were beginning a rest period to later join their respective teams. September 19 was then marked as the ideal date given that these days the players were, once again, going to meet to prepare for their next match, now in doubt after the players’ announcement of refusing to be called up.
The outbreak of the Rubiales case, in the hours after the end of the match that ended with the victory of the Spanish team in Sydney, was also a factor that determined letting time pass for the audience with the Kings. On August 22, the team was received by Pedro Sánchez at the Moncloa, highlighting the discomfort with which the President of the Government greeted Luis Rubiales.
The Crown’s commitment to the players was already evident with the presence of Queen Letizia and Infanta Sofía in the world championship final.
The succession of events that occurred as a result of the Rubiales case also caused the absence of an interlocutor between Zarzuela and the RFEF, a situation that has not been resolved until a few days ago and that, for the moment, prevents the holding of the hearing that was scheduled but never officially announced.
