A priori, the Competition judge had set the match for January 2 at 8:00 p.m. However, as Álvaro Benito has advanced in Carrusel Deportivo, “the agreement prohibits matches from being played that day.” The reality is that LaLiga and the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) signed an agreement in November 2023 in which it was established that in the “2024-25 season, no matches of any kind of official competition will be scheduled on December 23, 2024 to January 2, 2025”.
In this case, the possible solution would be that “in such a busy calendar, Real Madrid would have to play Copa del Rey 3, 4 or 5.” Since the Law requires that “between matches there must be a minimum of 72 hours of rest, although years ago it was 48 hours”, Álvaro Benito has proposed the following solution: “Let Madrid play Valencia-Real Madrid on January 3, that the Cup match is on Monday, January 6, because then on Thursday the 9th they have to play in Saudi Arabia.
The calendar is what it is and, in the event that the white team finishes between 9 and 24 in the UEFA Champions League standings and advances in the Copa del Rey, Ancelotti’s team “would not have a day off to play.” , for anything that had to be postponed or suspended a match, until Wednesday, May 21, which is the week in which Laliga ends.”
-The Federation had set that January 2, but, as Ponseti questioned in Carrusel Derportivo, “if by law you can’t play… What the hell are we doing?” And in this sense, Dani Garrido has also pointed towards David Aganzo, current president of the AFE. “For me, David Aganzo makes a mistake, by saying ‘if the captains get things right…’ No, sorry, if we can’t play on January 2, whether it seems good or bad to the captains of Valencia and Real Madrid, you don’t even have to ask them,” Garrido explained in Carrusel Deportivo.
Now, the union’s new proposal is to play on January 3, a date on which, at first, both locker rooms would agree. At the expense of the final decision, all institutions continue in conversations to decide the best option.
