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No Lopetegui problem if Madrid spoke to RFEF - Rubiales - 8 months ago, 14 June 12:56

Real Madrid's move for Julen Lopetegui would not have been an issue for Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales if he had been kept in the loop.
Rubiales claims he had just a 20-second discussion with Madrid president Florentino Perez prior to Lopetegui's appointment as Zinedine Zidane's successor at the Santiago Bernabeu being announced on Tuesday.
The RFEF president replaced coach Lopetegui with Fernando Hierro less than 24 hours later – just two days before Spain's World Cup opener against Portugal – and thinks such drama could have been avoided if proper contact had been made.
"I called Florentino and spoke with him for 20 seconds, then I spoke to Lopetegui for a minute. I asked them, as I do not know anything, to be calm and not to announce anything because they had left us on the sidelines," he told Cadena Ser.
"If this had been discussed with us, there would ...
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