Gender (in)equality and football. What about the RFEF CSR Committee in the case of the 2020 Super Cup in Saudi Arabia?

Abstract

This article discusses the trajectory that the so-called Corporate Social Responsibility Committee of the Royal Spanish Football Federation took place. This advisory body was established in 2019 and dissolved in mid-2020. We are interested in knowing the actions it may carry out during that period. To this end, we analyse the testimonies of interviews with some of the external members who were part of the committee. We focus on those actions on gender equality and for this particular aim we study the paradigmatic case of the celebration of the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia. This is a controversial event, on which the Committee made concrete recommendations.

Keywords

• igualdad de género
• fútbol
• rfef
• rsc
• arabia saudí