The LFP demand to the footballers by illegal strike

The conflict between LFP, AFE and RFEF by the television rights has arrived to the courts. The clubs have sued to the footballers by illegal strike and has asked the suspension of the decisions of the Federation. The Spanish government, author of the decree law, launches balloons went

The president of the League of Professional Football (LFP) has presented this Friday in front of the National High Court a demand against the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) by illegal announcement of strike, understanding that there has not been any incumplimiento of the collective agreement.

For Javier Thebes, does not treat of a labour subject but of a "fraud of strike, because it has done with a setting in accordance with the Federation" that chairs Ángel María Villar. The League also has asked in front of the Administrative Court of the Sport the suspension cautelar of the decisions of the RFEF that directs Villar to suspend indefinitely all the competitions of football in Spain from 16 May, and that includes the last 2 days of First Division, the five finals of Second and the final of the Glass of the King between Athletic Club and FC Barcelona.

The maximum leader of the LFP has announced the disposal of the clubs to play the parties that do not contest in June, after the commitments of the Spanish selection and without the presence of the players that participate in the Glass America. It would be his remedy to avoid that the league closed this same weekend if it arrives to do the strike. Thebes also has rectified his words when it compared the image of the directive of the AFE convocante the strike with the one of Herri Batasuna and Bildu.

First desertions in the AFE

If the complaint of Thebes is the first front that has opened him to the union of the footballers, the second is the announcement of some of his affiliated of not seconding the strike. The first in dissenting of the announcement have been the players of the Numancia. His captain, Javier of Pino, explained that the staff has taken this decision because it is in favour of the new distribution of the television rights and because it does not want to prejudice to a club "that has not failed them and has fulfilled always with the labour obligations". The players of the Valladolid, hesitant, have asked more information to the AFE before deciding if they will do the strike.

This next Monday, to the 11:30 of the morning, could give the first step to find a solution to the conflict. The LFP has invited to the president of the Spanish Federation to his Extraordinary General Assembly, in which the clubs will analyse the decree law of the Government that regulates the sale of the television rights of the football and the problematic stage that has generated. Villar, however, still has not confirmed his assistance.

The Spanish Government does not wet

After the wrap that his decree law has originated, the Spanish Government has not wanted to decant by any of the parts. "Football is football, ??Already it is well to put to the politics in all the fields", said the Spanish vice-president Soraya Sáenz of Santamaría in the usual press conference of the Fridays. The second of Mariano Rajoy has invited to the LFP and to the RFEF has to work in some surroundings of consensus to ask to the government of the that forms part a rule on the rights of television "to fix the situation".

According to the vice-president, "to the Government posed him the need to reform the system and therefore it did it (...). We attended to this demand of an urgent solution to create a stable frame, transparent. They are the parts those that, in the frame of this consensus, have to work".