National Sports Council (CSD) president, Miguel Cardenal, admitted that the truce with Spanish top flight clubs is a momentary success and they have yet to fully agree on all issues that have been raised.
The president of the National Sports Council (CSD), Miguel Cardenal, considered the meeting between ‘rebel’ La Liga clubs and the Football League (LFP) as positive, before acknowledging that they have a long way to go before resolving the TV revenues distribution
issue.
Cardenal and the President of the LFP, Jose Luis Astiazaran, presided over the meeting, which saw all the clubs in the Primera Division and the Segunda Division being invited to the important gala. However, the function ultimately did not see representatives
from Celta Vigo, Deportivo La Coruna, Osasuna, Malaga, Sporting , http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Racing-c40298 Santander, Ponferradina, Mirandes, Xerez and Las Palmas, attend.
The assembly saw the requests put forwards by the 13 rebel La Liga clubs been addressed. Clubs have threatened to go on strike and delay the start of the 2012/13 Spanish top flight football season, include the likes Athletic Bilbao, Atletico Madrid, Real
Betis, Celta Vigo, Espanyol, Getafe, Granada, Mallorca, Osasuna, Rayo Vallecano, Real Sociedad, Sevilla and Real Zaragoza.
The aforementioned clubs have refused to entertain the awkward match schedules for the first three weeks of the season. The outfits also took out time to question the distribution of television rights, which sees fifty percent of the monies being taken by
Real Madrid and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604.
These clubs also demanded payments owed by television operators, Mediapro and Canal Plus, as well as the withdrawal of the lawsuits filed against them in relation to the selling of their media rights.
Cardenal was satisfied after the meeting and made a positive assessment of the coming together: " almost all the clubs in the LFP have come (...) and have been able to express all opinions on matters of football," he said.
"It is clear the willingness of all football clubs concerned to bring about this situation, to put all of you and thank you. I hope that all television operators can benefit from the substantial investments made," added the president of CSD.
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