The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) is facing a possible intervention by FIFA. Luis Rubiales became president in 2018 with the promise of correcting the errors of 29 years of paternalistic and caciquil rule of Ángel María Villar.

The tutelage of FIFA would mean an obvious discredit for a country that will host its second World Cup in 2030. But it would serve to make way for cleaner and more neutral elections that would allow the already useless structures of the RFEF to be regenerated.