Senior Spanish football officials to leave or be fired after uproar over World Cup kiss: Report

MADRID: Between six and nine senior officials of Spain's football federation will be invited to leave their jobs or will be sacked as part of a deal to end a threatened player boycott of the national team, a federation source told Reuters.

Pablo Garcia, a spokesman for the RFEF, did not immediately respond to a Reuters' request for comment. The list of RFEF departures was drawn up during a marathon meeting between the players, their FUTPRO union, members of the Spanish National Sports Council , and the RFEF's head of women's' football Rafael Del Amo, which ended early on Wednesday.The meeting was held in a hotel outside Valencia, in southeastern Spain, where the team's training camp had been moved to shield the players from media scrutiny in the build up to a game Spain is scheduled to play in Sweden on Friday.

Earlier on Wednesday, CSD President Victor Francos said a joint commission would be set up between RFEF, CSD and the players which would be tasked with following up on the deal.

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