This Saturday should be a historic day for Spanish women's soccer with the start of its first professional First Division championship, baptized as the F League. However, the indefinite break of the female referees, who claim to adjust their working conditions to the newly released professionalism , will prevent the dispute of the parties.
The first two were to be played at 12:00 this Saturday between Atlético de Madrid and Real Sociedad, and Alhama and Madrid Club de Fútbol.
The four teams plan to appear at both meetings, but there will be no arbitration.
The same will happen in the rest of the matches of the day distributed between today and Sunday afternoon.
Once again, the growth of women's football is punctuated by the war between professional football and the Spanish Football Federation,
under whose tutelage is the female arbitration group.
Friday's attempts by the Higher Sports Council to unblock the conflict had no effect.
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The clubs of the Professional Women's Soccer League (LPFF) are disenchanted with José Manuel Franco, president of the CSD, from whom they expected a more energetic reaction to avoid the stoppage of a competition sponsored by the government body with five million euros a year.
In the early hours of Saturday, the employers issued a statement announcing that the clubs and the television operator will be present with the aim of being able to claim damages, in addition to requesting the CSD to put an end to the situation with legal weapons. which you have.
“In case the referees and attendees do not appear at the scheduled meetings, the LPFF will proceed to present the corresponding disciplinary complaints, requesting that the corresponding sanctioning measures be adopted for such a serious breach, including their disqualification.
The LPFF, together with the participating Clubs and SADs, will initiate the appropriate actions against the referees and assistants who fail to comply with their obligations to claim the damages that are generated.
From the LPFF we want to make public that we are not going to accept any blackmail from any group or institution, thanking you in advance for the shows of support that, mainly from fans and footballers, we are receiving,
The discontent towards the CSD is also latent among the female arbitration group for not having specified the support that Franco said he showed them in the face of their demands.
In their latest proposal, the referees demanded, under contract, 40,000 euros per year for the professional collegiate members and 30,000 for the assistants, amounts that should increase progressively year after year in accordance with the growth of the competition's income, if it were to occur.
In addition, they also demand separate payment for directed matches and allowances, as is the case with the male group, that the emoluments of the fourth female referees, who are not professionals, be increased, and that the party delegates, the clothing, travel and referee training seminars.
The proposal of the LPFF rejected by the women's arbitration group consisted of maintaining the receipt of 3,300 euros per game that was already paid last season, but only distribute it among the main referee, 50%, and 25% for each assistant, with diets apart from that they had to be negotiated.
With this, the main collegiate members would go from earning 300 euros to about 1,600 and their two assistants, from 168 to about 800. However, from the female arbitration group they add that, if payments to social security are deducted, the amount offered does not would reach the minimum interprofessional salary.
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