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Spain’s sports council asks tribunal to review Tebas’s Real Madrid remarks
Spain’s sports council has asked a sports tribunal to review Javier Tebas’s remarks about Real Madrid.
Tebas, the president of LaLiga and a vice-president of Spain’s football federation, compared the club’s communication methods to propaganda used by Nazi minister Joseph Goebbels in a post on X on 16 October.
The council wants the tribunal to assess whether the remarks may breach sports law, which treats public acts against the dignity or decorum of sport as serious offences.
The council says sport needs mutual respect among people in important roles.
The tribunal will decide whether there are grounds to find a possible violation; it is independent in its decisions.
Tebas says his comparison concerned propaganda methods, not Nazi ideology or Real Madrid supporters.
Tebas has criticised the council’s action and raised the prospect of suspension, but no outcome has been announced.
Spain’s Higher Sports Council (CSD) has asked the Sports Administrative Tribunal (TAD) to assess Javier Tebas’s remarks comparing Real Madrid’s communication methods with Nazi propaganda.
The council wants the tribunal to consider whether the remarks may breach a law covering serious acts that harm sporting dignity or decorum.
Tebas made the comparison in a post on X on 16 October.
Tebas said the council’s action was another request to the tribunal and suggested that any excuse would be used to pursue his possible disqualification.
The TAD is independent in its actions, according to the CSD.
- Who
- The CSD has referred the matter concerning Javier Tebas, LaLiga president, to the TAD.
- What
- The CSD asked the tribunal to assess whether Tebas’s comparison of Real Madrid’s communication methods with Nazi propaganda may breach the Sports Law.
- When
- The referral was announced on 22 October 2026. Tebas made the remarks on 16 October.
- Where
- Tebas made the comparison in a post on X. The referral was made to Spain’s TAD.
- Why
- The CSD said it was acting to protect respect, coexistence and fair play in sport and asked whether the remarks could harm sporting dignity or decorum.
The CSD
Javier Tebas
Basis for the action
The CSD
The CSD asked the TAD to assess whether Tebas’s remarks may breach the Sports Law and said sport should be a space of respect and fair play.
Javier Tebas
Tebas said the referral was another request to the TAD and that the reasons change while the insistence remains the same.
Meaning of the comparison
The CSD
The CSD cited the comparison of Real Madrid’s communication methods with propaganda mechanisms used by Goebbels.
Javier Tebas
Tebas said his comparison concerned propaganda methods and excluded Nazi ideology and Real Madrid supporters.
Tebas compared Real Madrid’s communication methods with propaganda mechanisms used by Joseph Goebbels in a post on X.
The CSD acted on its own initiative and asked the TAD to assess whether Tebas’s remarks may breach the Sports Law.
Tebas responded on X, describing the referral as another request to the TAD and criticizing the CSD’s silence.
- Referral
- Spain’s Higher Sports Council (CSD) to the Sports Administrative Tribunal (TAD)
- Person
- Javier Tebas, president of LaLiga
- Post date
- 16 October 2026
- Law cited
- Article 76.4.b of Spain’s Law 10/1990 on Sport
- Possible offence
- Public acts that harm sporting dignity or decorum
4 sources
LaLiga chief Javier Tebas faces tribunal after drawing comparison between Real Madrid and Nazi propaganda
El CSD actúa de oficio y eleva al TAD las manifestaciones de Javier Tebas sobre el Real Madrid
El Gobierno actúa de oficio contra Tebas y eleva un expediente al TAD por sus declaraciones sobre el Real Madrid
El CSD denuncia a Tebas ante el TAD por las declaraciones sobre el Real Madrid
What people are saying
The CSD considers that from the sphere of sports institutions it is essential to preserve the values that make sport a space of respect, coexistence and fair play.
Another one. Another request from the CSD to the TAD and, once again, headlines about my possible disqualification. The reasons change; the insistence is the same. We expected it: any excuse would do.
Posts on X
Una más. Otra petición del CSD al TAD y, de nuevo, los titulares sobre mi posible inhabilitación. Cambian los motivos; la insistencia es la misma. Lo esperábamos: cualquier excusa iba a servir. Pero hay un silencio que llama especialmente la atención. No hemos oído al secretario