RFEF president meets Spanish coaches working in Saudi Arabia
Rafael Louzán conveyed to the professionals working in the Asian country the support and recognition of the Federation for their work: ‘You are our best ambassadors’.
On the eve of the Spanish Super Cup in Jeddah a productive meeting brought together a large number of the dozens of Spanish coaches currently working in Saudi Arabia.
The president of the RFEF, Rafael Louzán, addressed the meeting, thanking in advance the presence and work of the professionals in the middle-eastern country whom he described as ‘the best ambassadors of our country and a great example of Spain for the world, so we have the duty to listen to you’.
Accompanied by the president of the coaches' committee, the national coaches, the secretary general of the RFEF, and part of its board of directors, Rafael Louzán first stressed to the coaches that ’we are in a new era that we are setting in motion. We want a dynamic, competent, educated team that is in permanent contact with the coaching staff, because, among many other things, you are opening the way to job opportunities for many other compatriots who can work in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere’.
‘We want a dynamic, competent, educated team that is in permanent contact with the coaching staff’.
A country that hosts the Super Cup and with which the head of the RFEF wants to promote shared knowledge and mutual collaboration, as well as strengthening training activities, taking advantage of the hegemony of the Spanish model, the reigning women's World and European champions in the men's senior category.
The daily work of the coaches, their contractual situations, the legal protection provided by the RFEF, the strategic plans that the organisation is working on and the proposals for the future from the coaches took up a large part of this pioneering and profitable meeting in Jeddah.
With an exponential increase in recent years, dozens of Spanish professionals are currently working in Saudi sports organisations and in the Arab country's own federation, where Catalan Lluís Cortés has been the women's national team coach since 2023, witnessing first-hand the outstanding growth that women's football is experiencing in this nation in terms of access, equality and technical quality.
