The Spanish sport federations showed their gratitude to LaLiga for the economic support coming from the football pools during the Executive Commission of the CSD.

The Spanish sport federations thanked LaLiga for the economic support given to them coming from the football pools collection during the Executive Commission of the Higher Sports Council that met in Madrid.

The Commission had the attendance of Jose Maria Odriozola, chairman of the Athletics Federation; Rodrigo de Mesa, from the Shooting federation; Carlos Jorge Garcia Gomez, from the Surf Federation, and Victor Manuel García Berenguer, from the Orienteering Federation, in a meeting attended also by the general managers of sport from the regional governments of Madrid and of Castilla la Mancha, Pablo Salazar and Juan Carlos Martin respectively.

Odriozola highlighted during the meeting the support given by LaLiga to other sports. Carlos del Campo attended the meeting on behalf of the professional clubs.

Javier Tebas welcomed the seven clubs that were promoted to Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante for the 2014/2015 season.

In the event, the chairmen from each club symbolically laid their flags next to those of the other LaLiga teams. Thus, Álex Aranzábal (chairman of SD Eibar), Daniel Ramos Lobón (director of RC Deportivo de La Coruña) and Carlos González González (chairman of Córdoba CF) added their emblems to those of Liga BBVA. Accordingly, Victoria Pavón (head of CD Leganés), José Miguel Garrido (chairman of Albacete Balompié), Isabel Tarragó (chairwoman of UE Llagostera) and Juan Antonio Sañudo (head of Real Racing Club de Santander) placed theirs next to the flags of Liga Adelante.

LaLiga's chairman highlighted the sacrifice made by all clubs to achieve their longed-for promotion and warned them that "not everything is acceptable to achieve sporting objectives. The Spanish league will be great if we all stick to the values of good management". Tebas also thanked the attendance of all present, especially that of Carlos Ricardo, global manager of marketing and sponsorship at BBVA. "It is a pleasure to share the values that those teams have obtained with so much effort."

Moreover, the clubs highlighted the enthusiasm with which they faced this new phase of their history, in which humbleness, good management and Fair Play were key. "We start a new era in Liga Adelante. We dreamt to compete one day with these teams and the day has come", stated the chairwoman of Llagostera, a team that will play in Liga Adelante for the first time in history. "I wish Racing is a respectful opponent in this category", stated Juan Antonio Sañudo.

Jose Miguel Garrido was also happily satisfied: "with 70 years of history, we have managed to take Albacete back to Liga Adelante, with the effort of its players and supporters." In turn, the chairwoman of Leganes underlined that the team managed to be promoted ten years later "thanks to the effort made and to its enthusiasm".

When it was the time for those promoted to Liga BBVA, Alex Aranzábal was the first to place the flag of Eibar: "One year and one day ago, we were in division 2B. We are still on cloud nine. Next year will be the club's 75th anniversary and we will celebrate it in Liga BBVA". Moreover, Daniel Ramos, director of Deportivo, highlighted that "it is time to make things in a serious and transparent manner" in this new stage of the club from Galicia.

Lastly, it was time for the chairman of Cordoba, the team that classified to the top category after winning the play-offs. "We champion fair play and we hope this is what prevails in the competition", stated Carlos Gonzalez.

The 98 children that participated in the activity received their diplomas from the hands of LaLiga´s chairman.

He delivered the diplomas of the first week of the 8th edition of Campus LFP, which started on the 29th of July. Javier Tebas was accompanied by Alfonso Zulaica, director of corporate culture and internal marketing at BBVA and Xavier Julia, chairman of ANEF.

Tebas addressed the children and spoke of Integrity as one of the most important values and encouraged them "to be people of integrity, that is, not to fake or lie, both in school and in life." LaLiga's chairman mentioned the Spanish national squad as an example. To conclude, he thanked the group for their exemplary behaviour.

This event put an end to the first week of Campus LFP 2014, which had the participation of 98 kids coming from different countries. All of them coexisted and shared experiences thanks to a schedule that combined training with leisure and free time activities such as playing games in English, diving competitions in the pool or evening events.

Boys and girls practiced technical football principles, offensive and defensive tactics, both individually and as a group, touched the ball, practiced group passing exercises and participated in the design of strategies and trained daily. The work of trainers was decisive and they adapted quickly to the several groups of children

Prevention and criminal prosecution in Europe were the focus of the International Forum "Audio-visual piracy in professional football" held at LaLiga's headquarters.

Javier Tebas, chairman of LaLiga, defined piracy in the opening of the Forum stating that "it is simply stealing" and showed his concern on an activity that goes against the interest of the football industry. "The notion of everything for free is very much embedded in our society and we must change that mind-set to protect ourselves, otherwise it will cost us money and talent". In turn, Enrique Cerezo stated that "piracy is a widespread, unresolved evil". The chairman of Club Atlético de Madrid stated that "the government has to put an end to this because it is affecting the industry of leisure and entertainment." Jose Manuel Gomez Bravo, director of intellectual property at Prisa Group, stated that Spain "is the second country of the world in the piracy ranking".

Ricardo Gómez, chairman of IPRODED (Institute for the protection of rights in a digital environment) considered that audio-visual piracy has caused "a delicate situation due to the seriousness of the facts and to pre-legislative procedures that are complicated and contradictory." Ruth Hoy, legal advisor of the Premier League, stated that cinema, music and football in the United Kingdom are protected by law, by judges and lawyers. In turn, Olivier Santivi, legal advisor of the French professional league stated that in France sport content is the greatest target of piracy, however since 2012 the amount of attacks has decreased due to some extent to the support of courts and the law. Bruno Pifarotti, legal advisor of the Italian league, stated that "piracy is a very serious problem" and underlined that, in order to fight this evil, it is necessary to adopt measures and coordinate them.

The aim of the agreement was for law students to have internships in the Integrity Department of LaLiga.

Javier Tebas, chairman of LaLiga, and the dean of the law school of Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Raúl Canosa, signed a collaboration agreement that will enable university students to do internships in LaLiga's Integrity Department. Javier Tebas asserted that "the students will love to be in LaLiga". In turn, Raúl Canoso stated that "this agreement has been very important for the university and will make it possible for us to send students to the league with a great colleague of ours, Manuel Quintana", referring to LaLiga's Integrity Department director.

The objective of this agreement "is to promote cooperation and collaboration with an internship program for students that will help them apply and complement the knowledge acquired in their university training. This will foster their skills that will enable them to exercise their professional activities and search for a job."

The work the students carried out involved, among others, drafting of legal reports, helping on events related to LaLiga's Integrity Department, monitoring betting markets, assistance to the Anti-violence State Commission and communicating with police, tax and legal authorities. The work carried out by students, whose internship was for a maximum of one year, led to the creation of a job bank from which professionals were chosen.

The new cycle of LaLiga´s seminars on sports law focused on the prevention of sport fraud.

The latest talk of LaLiga's first Seminar on sports law for the 2014/15 season was run by Manuel Quintanar, head of the Integrity Department at LaLiga, who spoke about "actions that must be followed when faced with fraud". The main topics of his talk were sport fraud prevention, training and detection of risks and practical, procedural, disciplinary and criminal responses that can be given.

Quintanar started by highlighting that "dated and recorded events regarding fraudulent activities are only the tip of the iceberg. We cannot measure efficiency in the prosecution of the cases identified because it is not representative of the market´s reality". To explain the nature of sport fraud, LaLiga´s integrity department recalled that "often, sports people, footballers in our case, are the victims. It is the environment that fosters the crime".

To explain the reasons for the increase on fraud, Quintanar quantified in 2% the world´s GDP related directly or indirectly with football. "The betting market has led to a significant underground economy that links crime and sport". Quintanar also stated that the infrastructure of the competitions can foster the creation of this kind of crimes.

The presentation was held at the Vicente Calderón stadium and had the participation of the chairwoman of the Spanish State Lotteries and Betting organisation (LAE), Inmaculada García, the secretary of state for sports (CSD), Miguel Cardenal, the chairman of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo and the head of Marketing at LaLiga, Adolfo Bara.

LAE´s chairwoman recalled that La Quiniela is a synonym of tradition. "It must have a predominant position in the football proposal. We aim to continue being the sporting bet for all Spaniards", stressed Inmaculada García.

"Lottery is the engine that moves national sport. La Quiniela has made Spanish football huge. The best league of the world must have the best betting pool of the world", stated the CSD´s chairman, Miguel Cardenal. He finished his presentation with a clear message: "La Quiniela is the biggest sponsor of Spanish sport".

Adolfo Bara, Marketing director of LaLiga, thanked the LAE for their collaboration to carry out the technological innovations project by presenting the "La Quiniela en vivo" app. "It is very user-friendly, simple and we are convinced that it will meet the needs of all fans who have not played La Quiniela yet," stated Bara, who stressed that thanks to this tool "fans will take football and La Quiniela in their pockets".

Enrique Cerezo was the host at the Atlético´s stadium. The head of the club from Madrid was very optimistic when asked about the prospects for the new season. ¨"I think Atlético de Madrid will win two titles. We will have a better team than last season." Former Basque player Julio Salinas asserted that, when he used to play, "La Quiniela was the way to feel part of a clan."

La Quiniela has brought important changes. The most significant one: higher prizes and million-worth jackpots, maintaining its leading position amongst sport bets. Those getting 14 results right received more money whilst those getting the full 15 results right got a higher and overhauled prize. From that moment on, it would be about getting right the number of goals for each team.

The new and innovative APP "La Quiniela en vivo" was also presented. It offered the possibility to validate the lottery ticket on the mobile, tablet and other devices. Moreover, international matches of the best European leagues of interest to Spanish fans have been included. Also, the price per bet remained unchanged at 50 cents.

The event organised by LaLiga arrived at the city of Cali with the firm objective of helping children.

The second LFP World Challenge tour took Marca España and Spanish football to all corners of the world. Cali, the Colombian city, welcomed RC Deportivo de La Coruña as part of the world event organised by LaLiga, an event that was mainly focused on helping children.

The Marriott Hotel was the venue chosen for the press conference to present the tour in that city. It had the presence of LaLiga´s managing director for the second tour of the LFP World Challenge, Ignacio Martínez Trujillo, footballers Manuel Pablo and Juan Domínguez and the coordinator of the department of sports in Cali, Carlos Diago.

Ignacio Martínez was the first to take the floor to assert that the LFP World Challenge aims to "offer an opportunity stage for peoples, cultures and countries. The message that the LFP World Challenge desires to put forward is a message of collaboration". The event´s managing director highlighted the importance of South America.

"We have chosen Colombia for an experience that will give the opportunity to those city councils that work with children to have more chances of funding those programs," stated Ignacio Martínez, who also highlighted that "football is education, training, social integration and opportunity, because football also teaches".

Thus, LaLiga gave its support to the city council of Cali so that the children participating in the education programs were the protagonists. "Currently, we have 24,500 children all over Cali in training programs", stated Carlos Diago, before thanking Liga de Fútbol Profesional for its support, because thanks to its effort, over 10,000 children with whom they work could watch the match between Deportivo and Asociación Deportivo Cali for free.

The lucky children who attended the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero did so accompanied by their parents and the adults who work with them in the city council´s projects. With this initiative, LaLiga aimed to give those children the opportunity to watch a world-class match in a totally safe environment and to offer them support in football development.

The Spanish team, which participated in the second tour of the LFP World Challenge, taught around 50 boys and girls from Lima.

The importance of Valencia team´s footballers was transferred to boys and girls aged 7 to 10 from the school "Arenita de Mar" from Villa El Salvador, which participated in a campus with the Spanish team at Peru´s capital. Nerves led way to commotion when Rubén Vezo, Antonio Barragán, José Gayá, Paco Alcácer, Vinicius Araújo and Jaume started their lessons on the pitch of the Alejandro Villanueva stadium.

Raúl Fernández, a Spanish teacher who lives in Lima, was responsible for the activity and felt very proud to explain the goal of "Sport and Life". "We find in sport a safe place for the neighbourhood", stated Raúl. The children who take part in this program come from neighbourhoods with social problems and, thanks to football, they adopt discipline and healthy-eating habits.

Spanish football goes beyond borders and thanks to the LFP World Challenge the little ones knew perfectly well all the teams that make up LaLiga. A group picture with players, coaches and the obvious protagonists, the children, marked the end of an unforgettable campus for young footballers.

The event had the participation of Augusto César Lendoiro, ambassador of LFP World Challenge, as well as several members of Valencia's team and representatives of Spanish businesspeople in Peru.

The LFP World Challenge´s business twinning event organised in Lima (Peru) was a success. Prominence was shared between Valencia CF, as representative of LaLiga, and Spanish and Peruvian business people invited to the event.

Andrés Collado, Spanish consul general in Lima, Augusto César Lendoiro, ambassador of LFP World Challenge, Juan Cruz Sol, director of Valencia CF and Luis Marif, director of ICEX in Peru, participated in the "Spain Experience" event, a gastronomic and business meeting held at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Vicente Guaita, Sofiane Feghouli, Andrés Guardado and Vinicius Araújo, as well as Juan Cruz Sol, attended in representation of Valencia CF. "Spain and Peru are united for the emotion of football and business, a relation that grows and adapts in mutual benefit". The representative of Valencia stated his satisfaction for the "Spain Experience" initiative and was proud of the participation of his club.

Spain´s consul general in Lima stressed the "excellent relations between Peru and Spain in multiple fields" and added that "there are increasingly more Spanish companies starting businesses in Peru". Andrés Collado congratulated LaLiga for organising the LFP World Challenge event.

LaLiga´s chairman was present in a press conference after the Ordinary and Extraordinary General Assemblies which approved the budget for the 2014/15 season.

LaLiga´s chairman Javier Tebas responded to the media after the ordinary and extraordinary general assemblies held at the headquarters of LaLiga in Madrid and asserted that, "after approving the budget for the 2014/15 season, clubs will be distributed €22.3 million".

That was one of the items that clubs and SADs of Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante approved. As stated by the chairman, on top of that, a contract for the sale of statistics to a betting company was also approved and the collective agreement that LaLiga and AFE had signed was ratified.

Regarding the other financial issues dealt with at the assemblies, Javier Tebas asserted that "all teams should abide by the rules and the ratios proposed by LaLiga" and insisted that, thanks to those measures, "Spanish clubs have reduced their debt by 25% last year".

The chairman also referred to the great event of the LFP World Challenge Tour. "We are creating value and internationalising Spanish football and Marca España with this initiative". Tebas also stated that LaLiga´s desire is for the LFP World Challenge event to continue growing over the next few years. "We have foreseen three editions and we want to make three more to raise awareness about Spanish football in the mid and long term".