Thebes: "The League would lose a lot of without the Barça"

Javier Thebes has affirmed that the Spanish League of football "would lose a lot of" without the FC Barcelona, ??In the hypothetical case that Catalonia independizara of Spain

The president of the League of Professional Football (LFP), Javier Thebes, affirmed that the Spanish competition "would lose a lot of" without the FC Barcelona, ??In the hypothetical case that Catalonia independizara of Spain. In statements to the journalists after participating in a debate on the piracy in the celebrated football in Barcelona, Thebes has insisted in that if Catalonia proclaimed the independence, any Catalan club could participate in the LFP, since it would break, in his opinion, the Law of the Sport. "If Catalonia independizara, taking into account that the Law of the Sport would follow valid in the rest of Spain, the Barcelona could not play since it would have to produce a modification of the law in accordance with the Spanish parliament", warned.

In this sense, has admitted that without the Barça " desmorona the business of the football", since the level of the competition would see affected by the absence of one of the historical clubs of the competition. "I do not imagine me a LFP without the Barça, to the equal that do not imagine me a Catalonia without Spain, so neither I imagine me a League without the Barça", has said Thebes, the one who has admitted, however, that an independent Catalonia would create a" important problem "inside the industry of the football".

The Andorran case

Thebes has remembered that the Law of the Sport collects an additional disposal in which it concludes that only a no Spanish state can play the Spanish official competitions: Andorra. Thus, it has highlighted that, in case of independence, the clubs of Catalan football only could contest private competitions like the LFP if it added another similar exception to which enjoys Andorra. "I understand that it will not happen, I expect that no pass", concluded Thebes.