The working meeting was held at the Federative Headquarters, and that the Royal Spanish Football Federation has been represented by its General Director, Manuel Lalinde, the member of the Board of Directors and Legal Advisor Beatriz Seijo and its director of International Relations and new director of the area for the organization of the World Cup 2030, Eduard Dervishaj.
The representatives of the RFEF have answered all the issues raised by the Delegation of the City of Vigo to where the duty of confidentiality and data protection belonging to the rest of the candidate cities to the World Cup allows, in line with the vocation of the RFEF by the RFEF by the transparency that governs the institution.
On the part of the Spanish soccer agency, Betariz Seijo has stressed that “We have answered during the meeting to all the questions that have been asked. We are in a new time when we want to do things well and transparently.”While Manuel Lalinde stressed that “the RFEF has stood out to the Vigo City Council to walk together and that both the Galician city and Valencia can finally be headquarters of the World Cup.”
Finally, The Royal Spanish Football Federation has provided the Delegation of the City of Vigo its willingness to continue working together if the Galician Consistory considers the possibility of proposing to FIFA its willingness to host the 2030 World Cupin the same way as, as the president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzán, has repeatedly expressed in the case of the city of Valencia.
Abel Caballero, mayor of Vigo, has positively valued this offer by the RFEF stating at the end of the meeting in the city of football that “We have seen the convenience of trying to advance together in the objective that Vigo is finally headquarters of the World Cup. They have informed us of it and Vigo is the one who longs for him. In this sense we offer all our collaboration. “
All this, without the eventual option to add these cities to the celebration of the tournament outside, andn no case, in impairment of one of the 11 cities that are already part of the candidacy book that was presented to FIFA.
It must be remembered, in this sense, that The final choice of the venues for the tournament is and has always been the exclusive power of FIFAwhich will finally be the one to mark the cities of the 2030 World Cup.
