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JOSÉ FÉLIX DÍAZ
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Rafael Louzan Albal was born in Ribadumia, Pontevedra (Spain) on November 21, 1967. At 57 years old, He is the 32nd president of the Royal Galician Football Federation, since 2014; Four years later, in 2018, he was elected again without a rival in the way. Now he could become president of the Spanish Football Federation despite the clear and direct opposition of the Pedro Sánchez government.
Louzán is an official of the Local Administration, In 1995 he was appointed deputy mayor in Ribadumia and was later elected deputy of the Provincial Council of Pontevedra for the Salnés region. Between the year 2000 and 2015, He served as president of the Popular Party of Pontevedra and president of the Provincial Council of Pontevedra from 2003 to 2015.. In 2017, a FIFA/CIES Higher University Course in Sports Management immersed him fully in sports management at the highest level.
Alberto Núñez Feijoo’s trusted man for the arrival of the current leader of the PP to power of the party in Galicia. “Pontevedra was his,” they said about Louzán and he proved it, they say that supported by an important network of mayors in the province.
Rafael Louzán served as vice president of the Board of Directors of Pedro Rocha. In addition to being the president of the First Federation. Previously he had been responsible for the Third Federation and, in 2022, he did the same with the Second Federation, which allows him to know the federative world and the City of Football perfectly. “Get to know everyone who works here and how they work here”they say from within the Federation.
A suspended disqualification
Now controls the guarantees necessary to be elected president on December 16 and although the law to present the candidacy for the federation presidency definitively is on his side, he knows that the disqualification from holding public office until 2029, by the Criminal Court No. 3 of Pontevedra, even if it is suspended, plays into his against, so much so that from those 100 guarantees that he claims to have voices are appearing to divide commitments and create a second candidacy, in order to avoid the appearance of a guest in the electoral race that ends on December 16. The limit to present guarantees ends Tuesday the 3rd.
