Real Madrid demands Tebas resign over Nazi propaganda comparison

La Liga president Javier Tebas compared Real Madrid’s media messaging about refereeing with propaganda techniques used by Nazi Germany, prompting the club to demand his immediate resignation from his league and Spanish football federation posts. Tebas made the comparison in a social media post on Friday, October 16, criticizing Real Madrid’s communications about referees and the club’s television coverage. He referred to techniques associated with Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany’s propaganda minister, and said his comparison concerned those methods, not Nazi ideology or Real Madrid’s fans. Real Madrid said Tebas’s remarks were unacceptable and incompatible with his institutional responsibilities. The club called for him to resign as president of La Liga and vice president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, known by its Spanish initials RFEF. The club’s statement also renewed its criticism of Tebas over the ongoing judicial probe into alleged payments by Barcelona to a refereeing official. Real Madrid accused him of not doing enough in response to the matter. That was the club’s characterization; the exchange does not establish the merits of either side’s broader claims....