Valverde And Machín, annoying with the jaleo of the non-EU in the Supercopa

In addition to the purely sportive questions, the bureaucratic subjects have been protagonists in the previous days to the Supercopa of Spain. In the FC Barcelona there was some worry because it had the limitation of three non-EU to the hour to inscribe to the staff in the tournament, and at present there is four that explain for the technician. After several days of hastes to obtain a passport for Philippe Coutinho, the problem has resolved by two distinct roads.

In the first place, the Brazilian has left to occupy one of the squares after obtaining the Portuguese documentation, but seem to be that this measure was not necessary to be able to have Arthur, Malcom, Arturo Vidal and even Marlon Santos, since if Ernesto Valverde decided to bet by the central carioca, also could, after the last news that has done official the Real Spanish Federation of Football (RFEF).

Through a communiqué, the organism that directs Luis Rubiales has cleared that this restriction never has existed, and has justified it signalling to the character of the championship: "The Supercopa is an official competition of state field, tutelada and organised by the RFEF. The competition, in accordance with the applicable juridical diet, is not described as of professional character".

"It is thus by what, of compliance with the applicable legal frame to the competitions futbolísticas officials no described like professionals, does not exist any restriction for the participation of non-EU players in said competition", has aimed, resolving the doubts that had arisen in this regard.

Criticisms by the late communiqué of the RFEF

Hardly some hours before the dispute of the Supercopa, the organism that directs the Spanish football has pronounced , something that has angered to the technicians of both teams, that have left clear that desconocían this conditioning. Of one or another form, both have expressed his dissatisfaction by an answer that arrives very late.

"The of Sergi Roberto is a sanction and is not to the first to the that occurs him. This was assumed. In this case, the only party prejudices us because we can not it have in the second party. Regarding that this is not a professional competition... What want to that it say you? I think that the ones of the Seville and we are professional. With all the wrap that we have had this week with the non-EU, already could have warned before", has complained Valverde.

The reply has arrived minutes afterwards in the appearance of Pablo Machín, that has left to fall a suspicion on the Barça that would not be such, since it has not changed the rule, but the RFEF has ensured that it always has been like this: "The fact that it produce the decision a day before the final is what less curious, but these things are like this, we have to devote us to play and in the dispatches have to transact these things".

The whole communiqué of the RFEF on the non-EU

"The Supercopa is an official competition of state field, tutelada and organised by the RFEF. The competition, in accordance with the applicable juridical diet, is not described as of professional character".

"It is thus by what, of compliance with the applicable legal frame to the competitions futbolísticas officials no described like professionals, does not exist any restriction for the participation of non-EU players in said competition".

"This comes demanded by the additional disposal Second of the law 19/2007, of 11 July, that establishes that it has to delete any obstacle or restriction that prevent or hamper the participation in sportive activities no professional, like the Supercopa of Spain, of the foreigners that find legally in Spain".

"Therefore, in the Final of the Supercopa of Spain, never has been limited the number of non-EU that participate, having full freedom both teams finalists to range to those that consider timely".