The international player of the Huelva Badminton Club IES La Orden Pablo Abián has denounced in a statement that he has suffered “injustices” by the Spanish Badminton Federation (Fesba) “for a long time” and that “the straw that broke the camel’s back” has been to be left out of the call for the preview of the Absolute Mixed European Team Championship, which will be held from December 15 to 18 in Switzerland.
The Aragonese considers that he was left out despite being the best Spanish flyer with his results obtained this year and that there should be some “objective criteria” that are known in advance. “They have to be based on objective criteria, The best have to go, those who earn it on the track, we are talking about sport ”says the player, who responds in this way to the statements made by the sports director of Fesba, Arturo Ruiz, who pointed out that Abián had disrespected his teammates after considering that he had a better right to be in the previous one of the European.
“Many badminton partners, including some of the selected ones, They have written to me saying that the situation is really unfair”, points out in his letter Abián, who also referred to the affirmation of Arturo Ruiz of being part of the training group of the Center for High Performance Sports (CARD) in Madrid and that he has not accepted. The volantista remembers that although applied for their internship scholarship for the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons, they were rejected, although they meet the required criteria, and that the sports director of the Fesba informed him that “they were not going to proceed to process” his scholarship and that they have “deprived him of all the benefits that having the internship scholarship implies” when he meets “all the criteria established by the normative”.
“Psychologically, I’m not having a good time. I have spent some time in which the impediments by the Fesba are taking their toll on me. For months they have been trying to leave me without any resources to be able to train and compete, ”says the Aragonese.