With this agreement, AFE commits with one of the biggest events in the football industry, aware of the importance the event’s magnitude to be celebrated in Spain.
Thursday, September 15, 2016 – The Asociación de Futbolistas Españoles (AFE) has established a collaboration agreement with World Football Summit, the first international event dedicated to the football industry to be held in Madrid, which will turn into the world’s capital of football on October 27, 28, and 29. The agreement was signed by the President of AFE, Luis Rubiales and Marian Otamendi, the Director of World Football Summit. With this collaboration, Luis Rubiales will lead one of the topics which will be discussed during the table named El papel y dimension de la ética en el fútbol , in addition to Bobby Barnes, Executive Director of PFA (English) and President of European Division of FIFPro, who will also participate in this topic.
World Football Summit was certain from the first moment about the importance of counting with the organization responsible of representing Spanish players’ rights to play an important role in the development of this Event. AFE represents more than 8,000 players and ex-players involved in Spanish Football. World Football Summit is the first large-scale International convention concerning the football industry which will take place in Spain. The meeting point for professionals, companies, and institutions; the movers and shakers shaping the future of this growing sector as an economic force in the world and represent over 1% of Spain’s total GDP.
