The Liga F — Spain’s women’s league — was supposed to kick off its second season on Friday, but instead its players are striking for the first two rounds of games.
Liga F started as Spain’s first fully professional women’s league last season. Its executives are now concerned that the strike could end up tarnishing its image and lead to fans, and potential sponsors, associating the labor dispute with the Rubiales controversy.
Vilches said that Spanish and international companies which have shown interest in becoming new sponsors of the league are concerned with the turmoil caused by Rubiales. And he fears that could be compounded by the strike. “We were one of the first to denounce , and our president has backed that up by speaking out as a question of her convictions,” Vilches said. “We are a women’s league . . . and of course we don’t want to look the other way.”
He said the rest are losing money for their clubs despite the growth in revenues, which reached 6 million euros for the league last season. The league said that its four clubs that only field women’s teams, and thus have no men’s team to also bring in money, also depend on government support.
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