In a relay that lends itself to an easy joke -Francos for Franco in a socialist government- the main office of the Higher Sports Council changes its tenant for the fourth time in the legislature. What was an avant-garde continually winked at women, since Rienda was replaced by Lozano, has become two enormously political profiles, close to the hard core of Pedro Sánchez, who, and
n the midst of the storm, it can be said that it has endowed Olympic sport with resources like no other legislature did before. If things go well in Paris 2024, that will be yours.
The last president of the CSD of this legislature will have a more or less calm panorama.
Unless the Spanish women’s soccer team, against the odds, has a bad performance in the World Cup this summer and the pulse that the group of fifteen has with the federation is poisoned, there is no great public brown to solve. Olympic preparation seems on track, the Tebas-Rubiales war is in bradycardia and there has been no major doping scandal in Spanish sport for a long time, perhaps also due to the impossibility of punishing cheaters for biological passports without risk. Perhaps finally sign the start of the new ADO Plan that will need the commitment of more than one ministry if it wants to be more than three letters.
But there is something that, due to the amount that it is and the image of the country, should be solved.
It is the money that Spain caught at the end of the year from European funds earmarked for the digitization of sport. Actually, to training for this task. Twelve million euros, which were signed at full speed, almost with the end of the year chimes so as not to lose them.
It was one of the reasons for discussion between Franco -the outgoing- and its general director at the time, Albert Soler,
Listening to his work team, he chose to award it to the Association of Spanish Federations (ADESP) as it is the entity in which almost all the Olympic and Paralympic federations are represented. 97 percent, representing 2.7 million athletes It was published in the BOE and it is intended to train 6,000 people before September 2025.
But due to various interferences, dictated from above Franco’s position
, the project did not start. And six of those twelve million have been lost. It is urgent to launch all these courses -more than 200- or that money will also be lost. And it is not a country, this is Spain, where investment in education is especially significant. he
