A complaint by Miguel Galán in 2017 addressed to the Higher Sports Council (CSD) against Ángel María Villar for violating neutrality in the electoral process ended the 30 years of the Bilbao leader at the helm of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). This Wednesday, Galán’s letter addressed to the Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) so that one of its seven members, Jaime Caravaca, refrains from participating in the process open to Luis Rubiales is his last action taken to end the federative mandate of the Granada leader.
Meanwhile, the TAD is still deciding whether the kiss to Jenni Hermoso is a reason to open a file for a “very serious” offense against Rubiales, which would make it possible for the Higher Sports Council, like FIFA, to also issue a provisional suspension. If the so-called “peak” is considered only a “serious” offense, the body chaired by Víctor Francos will not be able to order the suspension of Rubiales.
Owner of the Cenafe coaching school, Galán now denounces that, as EL PAÍS announced, the questioned member of the TAD is the nephew of Ramón Caravaca, associated with the GC office directed by Tomás González Cueto, external legal advisor to the federation and legal armed wing of Rubiales.
Through a statement, the soccer players union (AFE) also requested the exclusion of Caravaca from the process. González Cueto, together with the general secretary Andreu Camps, are two of the figures with the most decision-making power who continue in the federation after the three-month provisional suspension that FIFA has imposed on Rubiales. The dismissals of Camps and González Cueto would be a gesture that would help to clear up the suspicions of the Government that the interim president, Pedro Rocha, really wants to distance himself from Rubiales, who was the one who designated him as his dolphin.
Jaime Caravaca’s status as a member of the TAD has raised suspicions in Galán about the partiality of the court in its decision on Rubiales. Therefore, he has undertaken this last legal battle. “Some call me crazy, but I finished with Villar and I will do the same with Rubiales,” he says. But who is Miguel Galán?
“Well, he is a 19-year-old coach who, being at level three of the national course organized by the federation, was invited by the CSD to some sectoral tables to see what was happening with the training of soccer coaches because they were not successful. They chose me because he was the youngest coach in history to reach that level, ”he explains. “Later, the CSD decided to introduce the teaching of soccer coach in the Spanish educational system. So I set up a center through the Ministry of Education and the federation and its territories did not peacefully assume the break of the monopoly. I became an enemy in each territory that a Cenafe school opened. I have one in each Spanish community, one in the United States and another in China”.
His effort for the federation to validate his school’s title with the UEFA Pro coach’s license has quixotic overtones. His innumerable complaints against Villar and Rubiales have not yet borne fruit in this sense, but they have led to headlines in which he is nicknamed Querellator. “Operation Soule, which was the beginning of the end for Villar, began due to a complaint from me at the Prosecutor’s Office and another from Jorge Pérez, former general secretary of the federation,” he claims.
“My students have a coaching card, but neither Villar nor Rubiales have granted them the license to train abroad, although in Spain they can do so in all categories. By the Hague Convention they can direct in any country, but we want the UEFA license, not only for Cenafe, but for anyone who sets up an academy. Villar offered it to me, but only for my school and I said no. I don’t want a monopoly so that the coaches who have gone through Cenafe and for whom I am a hero see me as a sellout. As soon as they validate the UEFA Pro license for all schools like mine, Miguel Galán will disappear from the world of the federation and its presidents ”, he assures.
The case opened in the courts of Majadahonda against Rubiales due to his complaint based on the audios published by The confidential that reveal, among other lurid matters, how the Granada leader negotiated with Gerard Piqué to take the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia also have the Granada leader in check. “If the CSD had sent that complaint to the TAD, Rubiales would be history a long time ago,” he says. Kosmos, the company owned by Piqué, received a commission of 24 million euros whose legality is being investigated.
The aforementioned lawsuit opened in Majadahonda has caused Rubiales to have Galán on the long list of those he nicknames “satellites” at the service of Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga. Galan denies it. “Thebes did not support me when I ran as a candidate for the 2018 elections that Rubiales won. He preferred to bet on Juan Luis Larrea. Of course, the enemies of my enemies are my friends. That does not mean that I am a man from Thebes, ”he defends. “Someone say or show that I or Cenafe have received a single duro from LaLiga or Tebas”, he abounds.
The high cost of so many legal lawsuits against Villar and Rubiales also generates the suspicion that LaLiga finances him. “I have spent a lot of money, but I bill a million euros every year with Cenafe. I am a single admin, accounts are public and can be checked. I earn about 400,000 euros and I have financial possibilities to do what I am doing. Some prefer to remain silent, I have chosen to fight”.
That fight, according to him, has given him episodes of crime novels. “I have suffered espionage by private detectives, death threats and they have entered my house to try to steal documents. I am not afraid of anything or anyone, ”he says defiantly. Galán does not seem willing to abandon his legal war until he achieves the objective he intends for Cenafe. “When someone does not want to talk, you have no choice but to go to court. The Constitution protects me, article 24, effective judicial protection is called “. It was the scourge of Villar and has also become the scourge of Rubiales.
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