Complaint over La Liga chief’s Goebbels comparison referred to tribunal

Spain’s National Sports Council referred La Liga president Javier Tebas’s case to the Administrative Court for Sport on Thursday to assess whether his comments about Real Madrid amount to a serious offence under the 1990 Sports Law. On October 16, Tebas compared the club’s communications methods with propaganda techniques used by Joseph Goebbels after criticising Real Madrid TV’s claims that referees try to stop the club from winning. Tebas said he was referring to propaganda techniques, not Nazi ideology. Real Madrid had called for him to resign, while Tebas questioned whether the club’s accusations of corruption against the refereeing system also harmed sporting dignity and decorum.