You have ended open football?

Last update 6 April, 2024 by Alberto Llopis

last thursday day 24 October news broke in the major newspapers of the country; "The Sports Law that the PP Government is preparing aims to end open football". The president of the Superior Council of Sport D. Miguel Cardenal, wants open football matches to be eliminated from the current television system; if it finally stays like this, will produce a new television scenario.

The idea that is intended with this new Law is not bad in principle, the extraordinary income obtained will go on to finance other sports and at the same time it will appease the world of football with the elimination of the Beckham Law and what the increase in personal income tax at a maximum rate meant for footballers. Another advantage will be the possibility of knowing in advance the schedules of the matches, right now it's really crazy, not having a forecast of schedules implies that most of the time you cannot go to the football fields and that is detrimental to attendance and the show.

Within this Law, the much-requested one is also intended – from many clubs, sports organizations, rocks, etc. – the modification of the “rights of televisions”. Obviously, the injured will be Real Madrid and FC Barcelona. Sincerely, I think it should improve the competition. The teams that currently receive derisory amounts if we compare them with the big, improve their economic capacity and We will be able – in principle – to attend more level matches if part of the money collected is used to sign players with a better technical level.

Every Law is not an accumulation of benefits. right now typing, The beginning of the years come to mind 80, where football fans could only see – when you could – the games your team played at home, the rest could still be heard at the same time on the radio. The oldest program “Carousel Deportivo” was undoubtedly the most listened to. Sports journalists like Andrés Caparrós, José Joaquín Brotons who were the percussors of the ideologue of those sports programs and Bobby Deglané, yes, they delighted with their broadcasts on Sunday afternoons, not forgetting D. Joaquin Prats Cañete, masterfully broadcasting the derbies of the moment.

Good 'ol times, that was broadcasting a game, Now the important thing is to turn this journalism into a “press of the heart”. I wonder why I remember these war stories?, to the merchandising engineers ,of communication and the football business forget that the priority of these moments for many Spanish families is to be able to eat , pay electricity and water bills.

Many of them, they don't have money to pay for tv shows, much less pay the exorbitant tickets to the soccer fields. The only thing left right now, It is being able to attend the open game from the sofa that the owners of the broadcasts compassionately left us. What will become of the many hung up on football who cannot even watch a game openly??. pondering, empty fields and a disaffection for football that is becoming more accentuated every day. We hope that any step that is taken from public bodies will be taken to enlarge this sport, football.