By Andrew Warshaw
October 26 – Spanish authorities are stepping up their opposition to UEFA’s controversial decision to allow Gibraltar provisional membership status.
Miguel Cardenal (pictured top), the head of Spain’s Consejo Superior de Deportes (CSD), has met UEFA President Michel Platini to reiterate his country’s displeasure.
Interestingly, he was accompanied by Ángel María Villar, head of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and one of the most influential powerbrokers in European football.
The tiny British colony has been knocking on UEFA’s door for years and recently won a ruling at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) that its application should be considered, pushing European football’s governing body into a corner and opening a legal can of worms.
Full membership seems likely to be on the agenda at UEFA’s congress in London next May but the CSD says it will use all legal means “to stop the British colony being admitted as a federation”.
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