Odón Elorza slams Real Sociedad women's coach over his resignation
Odón Elorza criticises the Real Sociedad women's coach for resigning just before the league season. The coach exercised a contractual right. What happened to ethics?
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Odón Elorza accuses Real Sociedad women's coach of unethical conduct
The former mayor of San Sebastián has not held back. Odón Elorza has called Arturo Ruiz's resignation as coach of Real Sociedad's women's team a "lack of ethics", announced just before the start of Liga F (Spain's top women's league). What Elorza leaves out is that the coach simply exercised a clause agreed with the club: pay the stipulated compensation and leave. The law is on his side. Ethics is another matter.
Ruiz's contract, like that of any employee, includes this possibility of leaving. Anyone who uses it breaks no rules; it is a right. The veteran politician's reproach, on the other hand, stands on shakier ground. His critics have been quick to recall an uncomfortable episode: the defence Elorza once made of one Kote, a man who would eventually be convicted of paedophilia. Memory, when it comes to sarracena, is selective.
The club, meanwhile, remains silent. Fans speculate that better offers or more ambitious projects were behind the departure. What nobody explains is why a politician should appoint himself arbiter of other people's ethics when his own record has holes. In the end, Ruiz's resignation is where it started: a contractual decision caught up in a controversy that says more about the accuser than the accused.
The former mayor of San Sebastián has not held back. Odón Elorza has called Arturo Ruiz's resignation as coach of Real Sociedad's women's team a "lack of ethics", announced just before the start of Liga F (Spain's top women's league). What Elorza leaves out is that the coach simply exercised a clause agreed with the club: pay the stipulated compensation and leave. The law is on his side. Ethics is another matter.
Ruiz's contract, like that of any employee, includes this possibility of leaving. Anyone who uses it breaks no rules; it is a right. The veteran politician's reproach, on the other hand, stands on shakier ground. His critics have been quick to recall an uncomfortable episode: the defence Elorza once made of one Kote, a man who would eventually be convicted of paedophilia. Memory, when it comes to sarracena, is selective.
The club, meanwhile, remains silent. Fans speculate that better offers or more ambitious projects were behind the departure. What nobody explains is why a politician should appoint himself arbiter of other people's ethics when his own record has holes. In the end, Ruiz's resignation is where it started: a contractual decision caught up in a controversy that says more about the accuser than the accused.
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