The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) agreed with the Kosmos company, of which the Barcelona player Gerard Piqué is co-owner and CEO, a millionaire commission for the transfer of the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, as reported on Monday El Confidencial .
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The newspaper published audios of the conversations held between the president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, and the Barça player and documents on the contract signed for six years with the Saudi public company, Sela, which assured the RFEF the amount of 40 million euros for each edition and 4 for Kosmos.
The information indicates that Rubiales and Piqué began the search for a stadium for the Super Cup dispute in March 2019, before the president of the RFEF proposed to Real Madrid the possibility of it being in his stadium, although the idea was that was played at the Cam Nou.
”As Madrid is going to tell me no, that comes from hell to justify us for the future and we say that it is the stadium with the most capacity [el Camp Nou]which is the league champion [el FC Barcelona]… I think we have legitimacy”, is heard in one of the audios.
In another of them, the Barça player addresses the president of the RFEF in these terms: “Let’s see, Rubi, if it’s a matter of money, if they (Real Madrid) would go for 8, hell, man, you pay eight to Madrid and eight to Barça… the others are paid 2 and 1… .there are 19, and you keep the Federation six kilos, uncle. Before you keep nothing, you keep six kilos. And we put pressure on Saudi Arabia and maybe we’ll get him out… we tell him that if not, Madrid won’t go… and we’ll get one more or two more sticks out of him….”.
Also in another recording of September 15, 2019, the president of the RFEF congratulates Piqué, for the closing of the agreement for the Super Cup to be played in Arabia from January 2020.
”Gery, congratulations. And I’m not referring to yesterday’s great game or your goal. I mean that it is already after 12 o’clock and therefore the agreement with Saudi Arabia is firm. A hug, thanks for everything and here I am for what you needs”, affirms Rubiales.
On the 14th, the RFEF denounced having suffered a computer attack in the framework of an “organized criminal action aimed at the subsequent revelation of secrets through the distribution of confidential documentation with a clear spurious intention” and in which they would have stolen documents, conversations and private audios of its president and general secretary.
He then announced thatThrough its Integrity and Security department, it will report to the National Police the theft of information from its email accounts, as well as private text and audio conversations of executives of the federal entity.”.
The body, which today maintained that these publications are part of a campaign of harassment and that the agreements on the Super Cup were approved by its Assembly, said days ago that “everything seems to indicate that information has been illegally stolen from the private terminals of the president and of the general secretary”.
He also considered it likely that private information “obtained illegally and with clear criminal purposes” has been offered to different media.
”This conclusion has been reached after being a journalist who has advanced the RFEF the next publication of this illegally stolen material that the media has received, according to the journalist, through an anonymous informant who has contacted an encrypted voice and has put it at your disposal through a mobile application”, stated a statement.