Piqué spoke about the leaked audio scandal, his wars with the press and the failed dream of buying a French club

Filtering some audio in between Gerard Piqué Y Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Federation, unleashed a major scandal in the Iberian nation. One of them exposed the organization’s judgment of Supercup of Spain in Saudi Arabia with the company Cosmosowned by Pique, as a mediator and then mentions the possibility of a summons to 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

The problem is that having this company, founded in 2017 and owned by the Spanish athlete, has installed the figure of a conflict of interest in relationships, especially for the millionaire commissions that remained in their pockets: € 4 million for each edition. If the six original signatures are fulfilled, it will be done € 24 million.

Once the episode was known, Piqué gave his version a streaming and time seemed to calm things down. In recent hours, however, the defender of the Spanish National Team gave an interview for French media L’Equipe in which he asserted his good faith: “I have nothing to hide, everything is legal,” he said.

“The issue of conflict of interest is over. For me, there is nothing,” he said. In addition, Piqué decided to shoot against the Spanish newspaper The confidential, who broadcast audios: “The only outlaw was someone who accessed private voice messages and leaked them to the press“, he hinted.

Chatting with French media, the owner of Kosmos Global Holding ignored that final in Saudi Arabia and the alleged conflict of interest, allegedly Barcelona have not won any of the Super Cups held in that country from the Middle East.

The 35-year-old defender, always spicy, said he wanted to create controversy in the press: “It’s adrenaline, I need it. When I’m bored, I go to Twitter, I want to move something and I get two or three journalists and interact with them. I enjoy. Sometimes it brought me problems, but I don’t regret it. “

And he also referred to the situation of Novak Djokovic, owner of the tournament in Belgrade and drew an analogy: “These kinds of situations are becoming more and more frequent in the sport. And they will be more because more and more. athletes like me, who invest in sports before retiring.

Buying a historic French club

The world champion claimed that his company had almost acquired a French club with a lot of history: “We were going to buy Red Star. Unfortunately, we were a bit caught up in the negotiations. But I went to Paris, I saw the stadium, I talked to Patrice Haddad, the owner at the time. “

Ang Red Star Football Club is a historic team from Paris founded in 1897 that is currently disputing the Third Division. “Because of its history, the fact that it is in Paris, because of its spectacular fans, the stadium that is being renovated … We liked it immediately,” he added.

And, finally, he remembered the other attacks of his company. In 2018 he bought Fútbol Club Andorra and things changed for the better at the small state institution located between France and Spain. “I was interested because it has been working very well since we bought FC Andorra. We got the club back in the 5th Division and today we are first in the Third Division and we might go up,” he said.