The sole judge of professional competitions, José Alberto Peláezclosed last Thursday its decision to place the Valencia – real Madrid postponed due to the effects of DANA on January 2 (8:00 p.m.). The date is complicated, since it would not respect the minimum vacation rest stipulated by the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) nor the wishes of the footballers… and the complications that were already foreseen have not been long in coming.
After one more weekend of football, and as reported this Sunday Cope, The AFE has already informed the Competition Committee that it does not accept the stipulated date and has proposed an alternative: January 3.
And, despite the fact that the union is usually flexible in these extreme cases – since Real Madrid’s calendar is full of commitments – it is understood that “scheduling a match on January 2 would breach the current Collective Agreement and would violate the rights of the footballers”.
Of course, if the union’s claim were carried out, it would cause a domino effect in the following matches scheduled for Real Madrid: the round of 32 of the Copa del Rey (January 3, 4 and 5) should be played a day later, on the 6th, Three Kings’ Day, and this would lead the meringues to postpone their subsequent Spanish Super Cup match initially scheduled for January 9.
All in all, that would be the preferred option for both the whites and the Che, who are waiting for the response after the AFE proposal, which has not yet approved the change for January 2.