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Controversial demand: Piqué asked Rubiales "an easy group" for Andorra

Published:21/04/2022 - 01:04h

Updated:21/04/2022 - 10:26h

The audios leaked by 'El Confidencial' continue to reveal conversations between Gerard Piqué and Luis Rubiales, president of the RFEF. In a new fragment the 'favors' requested by the FC Barcelona center-back for Andorra came to light

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The new fragment of the audios between Gerard Hammered and Luis Rubiales, president of the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF) abandons the subject Supercopa of Spain and aims to one of the categories of promotion of the fúbol Spanish. In accordance with the messages filtered by 'The Confidential' dates of July of 2019, a period in which the captain of the FC Barcelona and the maximum leader of the RFEF already transacted the transfer of the Supercopa to Saudi Arabia.

The request of Hammered aimed to buy the square that the CF Reus, descended by non-payments, left in the Second Division B for the FC Andorra, club of the cual the defender culé is proprietary through the company Kosmos. In addition to the Andorra, clubs like Alcobendas, Hospitalet, Inter City of Alicante, Jaén and Zamora were interested, but the economic power of the team of the Principality finished imposing.

The negotiation began on 16 July with a message in which the player of 35 years said: "Rubi, will be available all night so call me when you want to. Simply a thing, was to ask you subject of the square of Second B of the Reus, that sees that low and remains free. Simply so that you explain me a bit how it goes and how you see it, so that you inform me a bit of everything. Thank you, crack".

The debt that left the Reus was of 450.000 euros, a very high quantity for the majority of beaux, but no for an Andorra that finish to rise of the First Regional Catalan to Third, category in which it did not play neither a minute and went up directly to Second B. In this regard, Santiago Ballesté, president of the Hospitalet, commented: "already we said that we thought that the square was directed to the Andorra, without knowing at all. The time has given us the reason", said the leader, ensuring that if he had called to Rubiales to negotiate the promotion, the president would not have accessed "neither crazy".

The "easy group" that asked Hammered for the Andorra

The most controversial point of the last conversations filtered by 'The Confidential' dates of July of 2020. In full pandemia Gerard asked to Rubiales how went to be the new composition of the no professional football with the disappearance of the ancient Second Division B. Finally, the Federation created the First RFEF with groups organised according to the terrotorialidad to facilitate transfers and logistical.

In this sense, Hammered took advantage of for interceder in favour of the Andorra and avoid that his team remained in the group of the Catalan clubs. "If you can avoid put us in the group with the better Catalans. Always they are the ones of more level the 4 of the group have arrived to the two final parties", said the defender culé. Finally, in spite of insisting him to Rubiales with different alternative to rid to his Andorra of the most difficult rivals, the club finished in the same zone of all the Catalans, including the Barça B.

"If we do this kill us. You imagine you to the Marbella going to Andorra? They kill me!!", it answered Rubiales to the requests of Hammered. From here that the defender blaugrana affirmed the Monday in press conference that his club has not received 'favours' of the RFEF. The Andorra follows struggling by the promotion to the Second Division, with which would go in in the categories professional. The past season lost the 'playoff' against the filial of the Real Sociedad, but this year goes directed to attain the aim. The money of Kosmos and the management of Gerard begin to give fruits.

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