Javier Tebas faces the challenges of LaLiga this Tuesday at the EP Sports Breakfasts

The president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, will analyze this Tuesday (9:30 a.m.) the challenges of the association of professional Spanish football clubs until the end of his mandate in 2027 at the Sports Breakfasts of the Europa Press agency, an event that will be held at the Castellana campus of the Camilo José Cela University in Madrid.

In an event organized with the collaboration of the Community of Madrid, Joma, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado, Mondo and the Camilo José Cela University, the president of LaLiga will address issues such as the sale of television rights, the fight against audiovisual piracy, the threat of the Super League and, among others, the cancellation of the match in Miami.

This forum inaugurates the eighteenth season of Europa Press’ ‘Sports Breakfasts’. Javier Tebas himself participated in the previous one; his counterpart from the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Rafael Louzán; and the CEO of World Rugby, Alan Gilpin, and the president of the Royal Spanish Rugby Federation (RFER), Juan Carlos Martín ‘Hansen’.

Likewise the president of the Royal Spanish Canoeing Federation (RFEP), Javier Hernanz, and the paddlers Sara Ouzande and Francisco ‘Paco’ Cubelos; the president of FIBA ​​Europe, the Spanish Jorge Garbajosa, and the president of the Royal Spanish Cycling Federation (RFEC), José Vicioso, and the national road selectors, Gema Pascual and Alejandro Valverde.

In previous years, the main protagonists of national and international sports have paraded through the ‘Sports Breakfasts’ as secretaries of state for Sports such as Jaime Lissavetzky, Albert Soler, María José Rienda, the first woman in the position, José Ramón Lete, Miguel Cardenal, Irene Lozano, José Manuel Franco, Víctor Francos, and the current one, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes.

Also the presidents of the Spanish Olympic Committee (COE), Alejandro Blanco, and the Paralympic Committee (CPE), the former Miguel Carballeda and the present, Alberto Durán, as well as directors of clubs, organizations and sports entities and athletes and former athletes from multiple disciplines.

There were the president of League F, Beatriz Álvarez; the former president of the RFEF Luis Rubiales, the president of the AFE, David Aganzo, the president of the ACB, Antonio Martín, and Jorge Garbajosa when he was president of the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB). So has her successor, Elisa Aguilar, the first president of national basketball.

In addition, the former president of the Board of Directors of Real Valladolid, Ronaldo Nazario; that of Atlético de Madrid, Enrique Cerezo, and the now president of FC Barcelona, ​​Joan Laporta, the former Real Madrid coach Ramón Calderón, the former national soccer coach Vicente del Bosque and the former coach of Liverpool and Real Madrid Rafa Benítez. Likewise, the general director of Unipublic, Javier Guillén, and the manager of the Movistar Team, Eusebio Unzué.

This sports agora was occupied by presidents of national federations, the then president of the Sportsmen’s Association (AD) Cayetano Martínez de Irujo, the Olympic champions Lydia Valentín, Carolina Marín and María Pérez; the drivers Marc Márquez, Dani Pedrosa, Jorge Lorenzo, Maverick Viñales, Álex Crivillé, and the ’12+1′ times world champion Ángel Nieto; Marc Coma and Stephane Peterhansel, ‘Monsieur Dakar’, and the CEO of Dorna Sports, Carmelo Ezpeleta.

To celebrate Repsol’s 50th anniversary in the motor world, Carlos Sainz, four-time winner of the Dakar and two-time world rally champion, attended; Toni Bou, 38-time trial world champion; and Jorge Martínez Aspar, quadruple world champion in motorcycling.

The swimmers Rafa Muñoz, Aschwin Wildeboer and Mireia Belmonte, the ‘syncro’ Ona Carbonell and Raquel Corral, the golfers Miguel Ángel Jiménez and Marta Figueras-Dotti, and the then women’s soccer coach Jorge Vilda with the internationals Alexia Putellas, double Ballon d’Or winner, Patri Guijarro and Irene Paredes, were also present.

The general director of MAPFRE in the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR), Pedro Campos, the skipper of the Spanish challenge, Xabi Fernández, and the crew members Támara Echegoyen, the first Spanish in the history of the regatta and flag bearer in Paris 2024, and Joan Vila, considered the best sailor in the world, did the same; and the world champion selectors José Vicente ‘Pepu’ Hernández, Paco Antequera and Javier Lozano, then president of the National Futsal League (LNFS).

Former cyclists Miguel Induráin, five-time Tour champion, attended; Alberto Contador, double winner of the Giro and Tour and three-time champion of La Vuelta; Pedro Delgado, winner of the Tour and two Vueltas; Alejandro Valverde, former world road champion; and the best Spanish athlete and basketball player of all time, Fermín Cacho and Amaya Valdemoro.

The former mayor of Madrid Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, and the former CEOs of the Madrid 2016 and Madrid 2020 Olympic bids, Mercedes Coghen and Víctor Sánchez, analyzed the options that were frustrated in the Spanish capital’s project to host the second Games in the country.

INTERNATIONAL PRESENCE: IOC, NBA AND JJOO

Representatives of international organizations were also at the ‘breakfasts’ such as the then vice president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Spanish Juan Antonio Samaranch Salisachs; IOC member Marisol Casado; the former London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Legacy Ambassador, Lord Sebastian Coe, current president of World Athletics, former IAAF; the former Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Spain Giles Paxman; the former General Director of the Volvo Ocean Race (VOR) Knut Frostad, and the former Deputy General Director of ASO Yann Le Moenner.

The Extraordinary Secretary of Security for Major Events of Brazil, Andrei Augusto Passos; the CEO of the America’s Cup in Barcelona, ​​Grant Dalton; the former Executive Director of the Euroleague, Jordi Bertomeu; The former French Ambassador to Spain, Yves Saint-Geours, and the former NBA vice president for EMEA, Jesús Bueno, are also on the list of speakers.