This Tuesday, the TAS killed the last illusion of León de México to participate in the 2025 Club World Cup, which he classified by sports but from which he left after a demand against the club for a multipro -aid conflict with Pachuca.
The highest sport court proved FIFA, which had already decided to exclude it because it belongs to the same economic group of Pachuca and that is not allowed in the Competition Regulations, to be played since June 14 in the United States.
Thus, all the efforts that were made were lost, starting with the brand new hiring of James Rodríguez, who came out by mutual agreement of Rayo Vallecano to sign with the Guanajuato club, motivated precisely by the possibility of playing the orbital tournament.
James can play the World Cup, according to regulations
Now the uncertainty is total and the future of the Colombian is in Limbo, since it seems an onerous expense to have it only to dispute the MX League.
The first thing to say is that James can play the Club World Cup because the regulation specifies it.
“James Rodríguez, by regulation, could play the Club World Cup,” confirmed Marcelo Bee Sellarres, a sports law specialist, in his X account.
And it has to do with a FIFA authorization to establish a special registration period of players, which will go from June 1 to 10, 2025, as long as “sports integrity considerations are taken into account.”
What does it mean? That there must be a formal transfer, which respects rights of players and clubs with which they have contracts, a transfer or assignment that compensates for loss in both cases. That special period is the one that has, for example, Darwin Núñez in the River of River Plate, if it manages to negotiate with Liverpool.
James Rodríguez in Monterrey vs. León.
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EFE
Will Leon allow James?
Like many things in life, León's problem is now for silver and has everything to do with the economic loss that represents not playing the Club World Cup.
It is estimated that it stops receiving between 10 and 16 million dollars, taking into account that each club only for participating earns $ 9.5 million, and for each victory invoice 2 million more. And James costs them, for the year of the contract that he signed (until December 2025) about 5 million dollars.
The question is: after the beating that supposes the exclusion of the World Cup, is León to lose who presented as the great signing of the season and who has entered into immediate tune with the fans, who turned to buy his shirts and to pay for his games? The answer is probably negative.
The option with which it was speculated is that, precisely because León and Pachuca, who was respected by the right to play the World Cup, are the same owner, could make an express signing and simply transfer the salary of the creative to another cost center. But apparently it is not so simple.
Jesús Martínez Murguía, son of Jesús Martínez Patiño who is the great head of the Pachuca group, had said in mid -March that James Rodríguez did not go to Pachuca in any scenario. It would be, among other things, to prove the FIFA failure that excluded his second team and will not do so, even if a fault of the TAS.
James himself dismissed that possibility in the press conference in which he protested by the decision not to let them play in the United States: “I am here, they have treated me well, since I arrived the first day. Everything that is happening does not have to leave the focus, I am happy and until the last day I am, I have a contract a year, I will fulfill it until the last day. If the club wants, obvious. Play in the World Cup or not. “
So, strictly speaking, you can. But in reality it is very unlikely that the 10 will be transferred to dispute the tournament. His will be the MX League, in which he has to concentrate, because Leon gave ground at the end of the regular phase and he, because of an expulsion, will miss the first leg of the quarterfinals against Cruz Azul, this Thursday (10:00 pm).
