fan ID, certification workshops and destination of Gallos Blancos

The Assembly of Owners closed the last meeting of the year with three conjunctural issues that are yet to be seen in 2023. These are: how will the implementation of the Fan ID work in practice?, What will happen to the ownership of Gallos Blancos and its financial health?, and the new informative workshops that Liga MX will give to the Expansion teams so that they align with the requirements for their certification.

Mikel Arriola, president of the league, clarified that the Querétaro club was not part of the agenda in the meeting with the owners of the franchise, neither the sale nor the reduction of the punishment of a year without fans in the La Liga Stadium was discussed. Corregidora, after the acts of violence.

_According to the principle of financial control of Liga MX, does Gallos Blancos present financial viability, after the economic impact of not having a box office?

“Is the Querétaro club up to date? At the time of this Assembly there is no proposal in the Controversies Committee to the contrary”, Arriola replied to El Economista.

What began as a measure to identify the members of the bars will become a requirement for all fans. Certification through Fan ID begins in Clausura 2023. The National Institute of Transparency and Access to Information (INAI) authorized the league to request personal data from those attending a stadium. The visiting bars will continue without being able to travel to the buildings of the rival team.

The INAI clarified that the leadership of the league heeded the recommendations derived from the analysis of the Evolution of the Impact on privacy, among them: “control in each of the phases of the treatment and the life cycle of personal data; corroborate that there are less invasive mechanisms to achieve security in the stadiums, which collect a smaller number of personal information and strengthen the implementation of the FAN ID, through a planning instrument that allows clearly defining the stages of data processing personal”.

_”Are there any rights of the fan in case they do not want to give their personal data, but at the same time, they want to continue buying a ticket?

“This six-month process that we had with the INAI, which I am very grateful for, is to shield any risk that exists regarding the information of the fans,” Mikel Arriola told this medium.

Regarding the issue of promotion, Leones Negros is still the only team that has the certification to operate in the first division, while it is expected to have four candidate teams to activate the promotion. To have the affiliation to be a Liga MX team, you must have a business plan (for three years), have audited financial statements, have a diagnosis by an independent accountant, financial control (with the mechanisms that the league has implemented for two years), infrastructure and ability to generate sub categories, with their women’s teams.

_How long can Liga MX wait if the Expansion teams do not meet the certification requirements?

“If there is no certification, there is no promotion. Rather, I would put it in reverse terms, the teams that reach certification are the ones that themselves become candidates for promotion, but I would not upload any team that is not certified and that is why we will have a workshop in the first or second week of January so that the teams have no doubt about the requirements to obtain the certification”, explained the president to this newspaper.

marisol.rojas@eleconomista.mx