The CSD and ADESP present the collaboration agreement with the Spanish Sports Advisory Council

• José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, José Hidalgo and Jorge Garbajosa have ratified the agreement with which the CSD and the CADE will intensify their joint actions to promote the development of Spanish sport and the industry linked to it.

Madrid, May 20, 2025.- The Superior Sports Council (CSD) and the Spanish Sports Association (ADESP) have presented this Tuesday the general protocol of action that establishes the framework of collaboration with the Spanish Sports Advisory Council (CADE), a consultative body that is formed by personalities of recognized prestige of the sports, business and civil society world.

The president of the CSD, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes; the president of ADESP, José Hidalgo; and the president of the CADE, Jorge Garbajosa, have ratified the agreement through which these entities will unite their synergies to promote projects that involve the different agents of the Spanish sports ecosystem.

The main mission of the CADE, a body that was created in 2019 by ADESP, is to analyze the state of sport in Spain from an external and multisectoral vision with a perspective that covers, among others, the sports, social and business field.

The duration of this advice will be four years, extendable to another four, during which the signing entities will be able to count on the participation of those bodies, institutions and companies -public and private- that are aligned with the objectives of the general protocol of action.

For Rodríguez Uribes, the agreement presented in the Samaranch Hall underlines “the way in which we conceive the governance of sport in our country”. “It is not a symbolic gesture; it is a real, institutional and strategic commitment that represents our willingness to build a participatory, transversal and ambitious model of collaboration,” he said.

In the words of the President of the CSD, the collaboration that begins within the framework of this general protocol of action “is consistent with the principles enshrined in the new Sports Law: public-private collaboration, the inclusion of civil society in decision-making and the commitment to sport as a state policy”.

For his part, Jorge Garbajosa commented that the CADE enters “a new dimension” by becoming, through this protocol, “an official advisory body of the Superior Sports Council”, to which he will contribute “experience, advice and plurality”.

José Hidalgo pointed out that the CADE is a “space for polyhedric debate, capable of uniting the reflections of sportspeople, companies and institutions.” With a “proactive and positivist” will, Hidalgo explained, they will try to “be for the CSD a useful tool and generator of ideas that favor the development of sport”.

The presentation of the agreement between the CSD and the CADE was also attended by the triathlete Eva Moral, who spoke on behalf of the sports collective, and the CEO of Endesa, José Bogas, on behalf of the business sector.

From these areas, proposals will also be provided that contribute to further improving the conditions of sportspeople and to promoting the development of the sports industry at a key time for its transformation.

The CADE, which formally becomes a consultative body of the CSD, brings together important personalities from the field of sport, management and business, who stand out for their special sensitivity to the values of sport, recognizing its social and economic importance.

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