Luis Rubiales has been suspended by FIFA for 90 days from any football-related activity both nationally and internationally for his non-consensual kiss to Jenni Beautiful in the women’s World Cup final. Given this decision, the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has announced that Pedro Rochathe vice president deputy to the presidency, “assumes the interim presidency during this period” of 90 days.
In the express assembly last Friday in which rubiales He refused to resign and he left the succession strategy designed in case the case was poisoned, as it has been with the withering intervention of FIFA. Taking advantage of what the RFEF statutes establish, it corresponds to rock, president of the Extremaduran soccer federation, take office.
It does so temporarily. For now, in the 90 days that the FIFA sanction has been set. Rocha is one of Rubiales’ most trusted people, who integrated him into his board of directors in May 2018 when he won the elections and rose to federal power.
Player, coach, manager
This businessman from Cáceres was a futsal player (he became a soldier in the Division of Honor), in addition to chairing various committees of this sport before connecting with Rubiales, located from the beginning in his restricted nucleus of power. He has been president of the Extremaduran soccer federation since 2013, a position for which he was last re-elected in 2024. He ends his term there in 2024.
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In addition to playing futsal for several seasons, he was also a manager and member of the coaching staff of Cacereño in Second B and Third Division, later rising to vice president, even being a member of the coaching staff of CP Amanecer, achieving promotion to the 3rd national division.
His career as a manager began as the provincial delegate of Cáceres for the Extremadura Football Federation, also being its vice-president and president of the Futsal Committee for three years (2008-2011). He assumed the position of president of the Extremadura Federation a decade ago, being chosen by Rubiales as vice president of the RFEF and President of the CNFS (National Futsal Committee) since May 2018.