Pedro Rocha disqualified from being president of the Football Federation and from running in the next elections

The judge of the Central Administrative Litigation Court number 2 of the National Court has finally denied the precautionary measure requested by the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Pedro Rocha, following the two-year disqualification sanction imposed on him by the Administrative Sports Court (TAD), according to iusport.

Thus, only an urgent appeal to the National Court, if upheld, could allow Pedro Rocha to continue as president and be a candidate in the elections for the presidency of the RFEF scheduled to be held this September.

Pedro Rocha’s defense argued that a favorable ruling would be of no use if the decision came after the call for elections in which he aspired to renew the position he gained access to after the disqualification of Luis Rubiales.

On July 16, the TAD partially accepted the proposal of the investigating judge, state attorney Marina Adela Porta Serrano, and sanctioned the then president of the RFEF, Pedro Rocha, with a two-year disqualification.

The disqualification was due to the dismissal of the general secretary, Andreu Camps, a measure that, according to the TAD, he could not adopt as president of the RFEF Management Committee but rather it was the responsibility of this body in a collegial manner.

The other two charges against Rocha, the termination of his contract with the office of Tomás González Cueto and his involvement in the criminal case for Operation Brodie, resulted in fines totalling around 33,000 euros, since, according to the TAD, they were ratified by the Federation’s Management Committee.

The Federation had already announced when the TAD decision was made that, if Rocha was disqualified, his number two, the deputy vice president Ángeles García, would take over, a person very close to the current president and placed by him as his right-hand woman.