Spanish FA head Rubiales has now apologised for kissing Jenni Hermoso but had called critics of his actions 'dickheads and dumbasses'
Hermoso soon afterwards said that she had been surprised by the kiss and had no way to avoid it.
As criticism of such scenes mounted, both in Spain and internationally, the RFEF released a statement to Spanish-based news agency EFE. This quoted Hermoso as saying she had no problem with what was “a mutual gesture that was totally spontaneous due to the immense joy of winning a World Cup”. “We should not dismiss it, or compare it with Iker and Sara. Do not just laugh off these people who believe they have the right to grope women. He should have apologised and resigned already.”“We do not pay any attention to idiots and stupid people,” he said on Spanish radio station Cope. “It was a peck between two friends celebrating something. is really all just nonsense, dickheads and dumbasses. These are just losers who did not know how to see the positive side.
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