LaLiga deny reaching an agreement with AFE to play games every 48 hours LaLiga Criticised the RFEF's claim

LaLiga have released a statement to deny the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF)'s claim that league and Spanish Footballers' Association (AFE) had reached an agreement for games to be played every 48 hours when football returns.

Earlier on Tuesday, the RFEF announced a pact between the federation and the players for teams to play matches every 72 hours.

LaLiga's statement is as follows:

* No type of measure has been submitted to the Commission for the competition. It should be noted that discussion about them was not foreseen in any point of the meeting agenda and it has not been suggested to be included during the meeting.

* Hydration breaks during matches have not been addressed and not a single mention was made. Beyond that, LaLiga would agree, as every season, that one more hydration stop can be added, and that these breaks are already included in the regulations.

* With regard to playing matches every 72 hours, no agreement has been reached or anything has been put to a vote and, consequently, nothing has been approved.

There were only demonstrations by the AFE in this regard. Likewise, it is categorically false that the AFE and LaLiga had reached an agreement to play every 48 hours, as stated by the RFEF.

* No behind-closed-doors match protocol has been mentioned, discussed or approved. LaLiga has already drawn up a protocol for this occasion since the beginning of March and shared with the UEFA commission, of which we are part and with the rest of the representatives of European leagues that participate in it.

* Finally, and in relation to the RFEF's opposition for matches to be played in the months of May, June, July or August, during which warm conditions, solar radiation and humidity are detrimental to the health of the athletes, the LaLiga representatives at the meeting have stated and recalled that the setting of the schedules corresponds exclusively to LaLiga, by virtue of the current Coordination Agreement, a circumstance that has been ratified by the National Sports Council (CSD)'s Board of Directors, and that the schedules will always be set taking into account, as has always been done, the protection of athletes' health.

For all these reasons, it is surprising that we are informed on aspects that, on the one hand, have not even been evaluated nor were subject to debate and, on the other hand, the Commission's debates content is distorted with a certain type of interest in it.