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Javier Tebas attended the Draft Football Gala 2013
Javier Tebas attended the Draft Football Gala 2013
Chairman of Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) Javier Tebas attended on the evening of the 27th of May the 2013 Draft Football Gala at Ciudad del Futbol in Las Rozas, a gala during which the awards to the young Spanish female and male players were given out.
The 2013 Gala Draft awarded the most prominent national players aged 16 to 20, as well as the best youth club squad, which was given to Real Sociedad.
LFP's commitment with young players
The LFP's chairman recalled the commitment the organisation has "with young players" and urged all young footballers to continue having "the value of sacrifice, learning to work in a team and honesty till the end of their days as players".
"About 18,000 children are playing and training at Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante clubs, we have great grassroots football. That is why I remember too the families that suffer whenever one of their children leaves their home. It is scary, I remember them because it is very hard," stated Javier Tebas.
Moreover, the leader of the LFP also had a few words for those footballers who do not manage to achieve their dream of becoming professional players. "I also remember those who do not make it. There are many good footballers that do not reach their dream, but they are also part of those potential young players. It is very important to remember them because they also help to the others' victory," he stated.
"Finally, I urge you not to forget values such as the importance of sacrifice, team work and another value that must never be forgotten, honesty. Do defend them till the last minute on the field" ended by saying Tebas.
Three prize categories
The Golden Eleven was made up of Kepa Arrizabalaga (Athletic Club); Dani Carvajal (Bayer Leverkusen), Sergi Gomez (Barcelona ´B´), Jordi Amat (Rayo Vallecano), Jon Aurtenetxe (Real Sociedad); Koke Resurreccion (Atletico de Madrid), Alex Fernandez (Real Madrid Castilla), Pablo Sarabia (Getafe), Iker Muniain (Athletic Club), Isco (Malaga) and Alvaro Morata (Real Madrid).
The Silver Eleven was awarded to Dani Sotres (Racing), Javi Manquillo (Atletico de Madrid), Jonas Ramalho (Athletic Club), Israel Puerto (Sevilla), Alberto Moreno (Sevilla), Ruben Pardo (Real Sociedad), Saul Ñiguez (Atletico de Madrid), Gerard Deulofeu (Barcelona), Jese Rodriguez (Real Madrid), Suso (Liverpool) and Paco Alcacer (Getafe).
The Bronze Eleven were Ruben Blanco (Celta), Jonatan Castro (Celta ´B´), Derik (Real Madrid Castilla), Pablo Iñiguez (Villarreal), Victor Alvarez (Espanyol), Sergi Roberto (Barcelona ´B´), Obiang (Sampdoria), Alvaro Vadillo (Betis), Ruben Garcia (Levante), Oliver Torres (Atletico de Madrid) and Raul de Tomas (Real Madrid Castilla).
The LFP's Assembly approves the calendar project for Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante for the 2013/14 season
The LFP's Assembly approves the calendar project for Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante for the 2013/14 season
The Extraordinary General Assembly of Liga de Futbol Profesional approved in its meeting of the 6th of June in Granada the calendar project for the 2013/14 Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante.
The National Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante championship will start on Sunday the 18th of August 2013.
In Liga BBVA, the last fixture will be played on Sunday the 18th of May 2014 (date set by FIFA to finish all national championships, according to its bulletin 1329 dated 14th of November 2012) due to the holding of the World Cup.
In Liga BBVA, three rounds will be played midweek (the 6th, on the 25/09/2013, the 11th, on the 30/10/2013 and the 30th on the 26/03/2014).
In Liga Adelante, as in previous seasons, the championship will not end on the official dates given by FIFA in the international calendar and no round will be played midweek. The last round will be played on the 8th of June. Straight after the promotion, the play-offs will be played, on the 11th and 15th of June for the first round, and the 18th and 22nd of June in the second round.
With regard to the dates for Copa del Rey (King's Cup), the novelty is that one round of this championship will be played in the weekend, more specifically the 1/16 FIRST LEG, that will be played from the 6-8 December 2013.
This means that on Sunday the 8th of December there will not be Liga BBVA fixtures. With regard to the 17th round of Liga Adelante, the matches in which one or both contenders have qualified to play the 1/16 of the Copa del Rey final will be postponed.
With regard to the Liga Adelante matches postponed, the most beneficial date for both clubs will be chosen (trying to find local bank holidays, etc.) bearing in mind that all matches must have been played by Wednesday the 26th of March 2014.
Regarding the Copa del Rey final, it will take place on Saturday the 19th of April 2014 (Easter weekend).
The teams qualified for the Copa del Rey final will play their fixtures corresponding to the 3th round of Liga BBVA and/or 35th round of Liga Adelante on Wednesday the 7th of May 2014 or on Thursday the 1st of May if none of the runner-ups have qualified to play the semi-finals of the Champions and the Europa Leagues.
As for the dates for the Spanish Supercup, the 21st and 28th of August have been chosen. Although they coincide with some of the fixtures in the European competition, they will be played at times that do not affect the matches of the European competition.
Real Madrid, Sevilla, Levante and Almeria, members of the LFP's governing bodies
Real Madrid, Sevilla, Levante and Almeria, members of the LFP's governing bodies
The Delegate Commission of Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) and the council of the Spanish Association of Professional Football (SEFPSA) appointed, in their meeting dated 6th of June, the deputy director general of organisation and management of the Sevilla club, Manuel Vizcaino, and the Economic Vice-chairman of Almeria Jose Bonillo as CEOs of the latter organisation.
At the same time, Francisco Javier Catalan, chairman of Levante, and the manager of legal services of Real Madrid, Javier Lopez Farre, were chosen as the members representing Liga BBVA at Fundacion del Futbol Profesional (FFP).
The renewal of those positions is due to the recent elections for presidency of the LFP.
Fernando Sanz, managing director of the LFP's delegation in the Middle East and North Africa
Fernando Sanz, managing director of the LFP's delegation in the Middle East and North Africa
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Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) announced on the 4th of June the appointment of Fernando Sanz Duran as managing director of the LFP's delegation created in MENA (Middle East and North Africa). Thus, a new stage of international expansion begins with the creation of a foreign representation office in MENA in order to promote Liga BBVA among fans, sponsors and investors. Fernando Sanz Duran started his football career in the lower categories of Real Madrid. He played in the top team of Real Madrid between 1995 and 1999 and in Malaga between 1999 and 2006. In his list of achievements with Real Madrid we can find the following: Liga 1996/97, Champions League 1997/98 and the Intercontinental Cup 1998; with Malaga he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2002.
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Vladimir Gudej and Antonio Alonso, best delegates of Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante, respectively
Vladimir Gudej and Antonio Alonso, best delegates of Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante, respectively
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Vladimir Gudej and Antonio Alonso, delegates of Celta and Barcelona B respectively, were chosen on Monday the 3rd of June as the best delegates of Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante 2012/13 by the referees of each of the professional categories. In the award-winning ceremony, the chairman of the LFP Javier Tebas, CEO Javier Gomez, secretary general Carlos del Campo, manager of communication Eva Turegano and the members of the Referees Commission for Professional Championships were present Antonio Jesús Lopez Nieto and Evaristo Puentes Leira. Moreover, most of the delegates of the Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante teams were present. Recognition to refereesDuring the award-giving ceremony, the work of referees Miguel Angel Perez Lasa and Alfonso Pino Zamorano and referee assistants Luis Cote (Liga BBVA), Ramon Hernandez and Carlos Valles (Liga Adelante) was acknowledged, as they retire at the end of the current season. End-of-season meetingBefore the award-giving ceremony, an end-of-season meeting took place at the headquarters of Liga de Futbol Profesional to analyse its evolution, present and to share the incidents identified, as well as to put forward potential improvements and solutions. The prizesThe prizes to the teams' delegates were created at the beginning of the 2007/08 season after they were requested by the LFP clubs' delegates themselves in order to acknowledge the extraordinary work they do for football. The awards represent a real recognition of the huge work they do, that goes beyond their duties and ends up being of true help and complicity to players and referees, collaborating in a definitive and efficient manner so that the football show can go on. |
The LFP's chairman officially closes the 4th Latin American Conference on Sport Economy
The LFP's chairman officially closes the 4th Latin American Conference on Sport Economy
The chairman of Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) Javier Tebas officially closed on the 7th of June at midday the 4th Latin American Conference on Sport Economy (CEID) at the headquarters of the Higher Sports Council (CSD).
During his intervention, Javier Tebas referred to the new economic control measures of clubs. "Managing fear, the fear of being delegated or of maintaining their status in Europe, forces clubs to not properly manage their structure" he asserted. "The economic control rules imposed, although harsh, will be met in the midterm" he stated.
Tebas was accompanied by the LFP's corporate managing director Javier Gomez, who also participated in the official closing ceremony. He also mentioned the new economic policy of LFP clubs, asserting that the clubs' will is "to unanimously reduce their staff costs."
The conference was organised by the institute of Sport Sciences of University Camilo Jose Cela in Madrid and by Fundacion Observatorio Economico del Deporte (Foundation Economic Observatory of Sport) of which the LFP's Fundacion del Futbol Profesional is a trustee. The opening session took place on the 6th of June at the headquarters of the Spanish Olympic Committee, where the first day of the seminar was held. On the 7th, it moved to the Higher Sports Council, where the second and last day of the seminar was held.
The Conference also aimed to provide a Latin American forum for academics, researchers and social players in order to exchange ideas in the field of sport economy and its associated areas (management, marketing, etc.)
Thus, this edition in Madrid aimed to promote the creation of networks and collaboration spaces between participants from all over Latin America in order to increase knowledge on the issue and to identify the first trends of sport economy in a globalised world.
Javier Tebas attended the inauguration of Florentino Perez as president of Real Madrid
Javier Tebas attended the inauguration of Florentino Perez as president of Real Madrid
The chairman of Liga de Futbol Profesional Javier Tebas attended on Tuesday the 4th of June the inauguration event of Florentino Perez as the president of Real Madrid. The event took place in the tribune of the Santiago Bernabeu stadium.
In his speech, the re-elected leader of Real Madrid stressed the following: "The future has started and I want more. You have my word that we will work to achieve those goals. Our members deserve all the efforts, demanding our best performance. This will be possible thanks to the strength of all of us together. Together, we will live new victories and we will find new challenges. We will work all together because together we will win".
BBVA and LFP renew their strategic agreement
BBVA and LFP renew their strategic agreement
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The BBVA and LFP chairmen signed in New York the "new" Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante until 2016 The agreement, extendable until 2018, will entail an investment by BBVA of 70 million euros "Sponsoring Liga BBVA strengthens our business in all continents", stated Francisco Gonzalez Javier Tebas stressed that "BBVA is THE COMPANION we wished for in the path of sport sponsorship" BBVA and Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) announced on the 11th of June the extension of their strategic agreements thanks to which the First Division will continue to be called Liga BBVA over the next three years, renewable until 2018. The agreement, presented in New York by Francisco Gonzalez, BBVA chairman, and Javier Tebas, LFP's chairman, also includes continuing to call the Second Division Liga Adelante. An agreement that will entail an investment of over 70 million euros, 23.5 million euros per season. The agreement's presentation was attended by Iker Casillas and Andres Iniesta, Liga BBVA players and world ambassadors of the BBVA brand. Thanks to this new sponsorship, BBVA strengthens its commitment with sport and guarantees the prominent presence of the bank in the best sport leagues of the world. For the LFP, this renewal means that it will continue its collaboration with a strong and stable partner, and it represents "a boost to its expansion in many countries where football is an up-and-coming value." BBVA's chairman Francisco Gonzalez asserted that "for BBVA, renewing this sponsorship is a natural step that we enthusiastically take. Since we joined efforts with the LFP in 2006, we have advanced greatly in the international dissemination of Liga BBVA and we want to continue supporting to disseminate it in the United States, Latin America and Asia". BBVA, strong despite the crisisAfter that, BBVA's chairman asserted that "our journey with the LFP has overcome some of the worst moments of the crisis thanks to BBVA's strong position and the way in which we have gone through the crisis, with no help, generating revenue and maintaining dividends. Many sport activities have lost their sponsors, but this is not the case for Liga BBVA, renewed here today." Francisco Gonzalez finished by saying that "in this new phase of sponsorship, we want the impact on BBVA to be greater and we are going to bring clubs closer to our branch network and to our customers. Moreover, together with the LFP we want to transfer to football the pillars on which we base our strategy: principles, people and innovation, that translate into team work, overcoming difficulties, effort and fair play." Values and excellenceIn turn, LFP's chairman Javier Tebas mentioned in his presentation that the LFP's aim with BBVA is to "consolidate and increase the universality of the Liga" as a brand with clear international content that aims to establish itself in markets of interest to both organisations. Tebas also stressed the commitment of both institutions: "from the start we knew that BBVA was not just one more travelling companion, it was THE COMPANION. We share similar values, those of sacrifice, teamwork, management transparency and innovation". The LFP's chairman stated that "naming the competition Liga BBVA conveys sport excellence together with the excellence in financial practices represented by BBVA", whilst Liga Adelante represents "improvement through effort." Finally, Tebas mentioned that "the Liga will be together with BBVA to consolidate its project for the future" and he finished by using the famous BBVA slogan: "forward for the dreams that we still have left". An international competitionLiga BBVA is, currently, one of the most followed sport competitions, with an audience of over 800 million people in nearly 189 countries where the matches can be seen. Moreover, in 2012 our league was considered, for the third consecutive year, the best league of the world according to the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) and has among its teams the largest amount of players awarded with the Ballon d'Or prize over the last four years. In Spain, Liga BBVA generates 85,000 direct and indirect jobs thanks to the over 14 million people that go to the stadiums every season, thus moving over 10 billion euros (1% if the Spanish GDP). In the case of BBVA, the bank's brand has achieved over 60 million hits since 2012, year when it was the most associated brand with sport. |
Javier Tebas presented the next Liga BBVA season in Miami
Javier Tebas presented the next Liga BBVA season in Miami
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Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) presented on Saturday the 8th of June in Miami the next season, just a few hours before the friendly match between the national teams of Spain and Haiti. The LFP's chairman Javier Tebas presented in Miami the LFP's objectives and its international expansion project in an event that had the participation of the chairman of Valladolid, Carlos Suarez, and of international players Sergio Ramos and Gerard Pique. The event took place at 10 am in the Imagina US studios in Miami. Towards the end of the crisis During his intervention, the LFP's chairman was confident that in three years most of the Spanish clubs will have overcome the economic crisis in which they find themselves and that has led to bankruptcy of some of them. Tebas recalled that they are "in a phase of economic restructuring" and that the LFP has established a period of three years to clean up the accounts of many of those clubs by setting salary limits in the first category teams preventing them from hiring more players. The chairman said that thanks to this" limited number of players' acquisitions many clubs will become an alternative" to the two big teams of the competition. However, he asserted that "four or five clubs will continue to contract top-level players". In this sense, he stated that the arrival of players such as Brazilian Neymar and that the prevalence of the two big Spanish teams is good for everyone in the Liga, because it has an impact on the sale of broadcasting rights. Moreover, and in order to prevent inflation in football, the LFP's chairman asserted that a club will not be allowed to invest more money than what it expects to generate, unless there is a bank guarantee for the difference. Tebas stated that there is a need to reflect upon the presence of sheiks and magnates that come to the clubs and inject money to win awards in entities whose revenue do not cover those expenses. Moreover, the chairman announced that they will try to set up next season a rule on "how the media should be treated before, during and after matches", similar to the UEFA model in the Champions League and on Liga Europa. Regarding the possibility that some of the Liga's rounds may be played during the Christmas holidays, Tebas stated that "it is not a priority" and that it must be studied in details with the AFE because many things must be "balanced". |
Fundacion del Futbol Profesional held on Wednesday a new legal breakfast
Fundacion del Futbol Profesional held on Wednesday a new legal breakfast
Fundacion del Futbol Profesional (FFP) held on Wednesday the 11th of June another legal breakfast during which two topical issues for professional football were discussed: the reform of the labour laws and the new bill on doping.
The seminar started with a presentation carried out by the chairman of Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) Javier Tebas. After that, Antonio V. Sempere, professor of labour law and coordinator of the labour law department at Gomez-Acebo & Pombo, presented the legal consequences that the labour reform will have on the labour relations of professional footballers as a result of the recent ruling by Court on Social Issues no. 2 of Tarragona, dated 7th of March 2013 that, for the first time, reduces the salary agreed by a club with a professional footballer after a relegation.
Afterwards, the tenured lecturer on Administrative Law Alberto Palomar Olmeda analysed the main new practices entailed by the draft bill on the protection of sport health and the fight against doping in sports for the members of the LFP, which will be approved soon by Parliament.
After that, there was a long discussion among the speakers and the many people present, moderated by the LFP's legal advisor Miguel Mª Garcia Caba.
Javier Tebas was with the students of Cope's course on journalism
Javier Tebas was with the students of Cope's course on journalism
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For more than one hour, the chairman of Liga de Futbol Profesional (LFP) Javier Tebas, answered all the questions asked by the students of Cope's Advanced Course on Sport Journalism at an event held on the 18th of June at the headquarters of Fundacion COPE. LFP's chairman acknowledged that in the midst of an expansion project in MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and Miami as a short-term objective, the national market, fixture times and attendance to stadiums was kept at more than acceptable levels. Moreover, and among other discussions, the students wanted to analyse the follow-up of other championships such as the English, Italian and German ones. They put forward their concerns about the economic control imposed by the LFP to its member clubs. the Liga's chairman clarified that debt has been reduced by 8% in 2012. Other issues of interest for the students of this COPE's course, headed by Paco Gonzalez and that was on its last week, were broadcasting rights, the times of Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante fixtures and many other aspects of professional football in Spain. |
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