The Spanish football association (RFEF) has requested Luis Rubiales resigns as president after kissing Jenni Hermoso at the World Cup final. There has been mounting pressure on Rubiales since he kissed the Spain forward on stage after the women’s team won the World Cup final on August 20. Hermoso later said she had not consented to the kiss. The decision was made following a meeting of the commission of presidents of regional and territorial federations of the RFEF on Monday. An RFEF statement read: “After the latest events and the unacceptable behaviors that have seriously damaged...
Hermoso spoke out on Friday about the incident with Rubiales on the platform when she and her team-mates were receiving their medals for beating England in the World Cup final in Sydney, Australia.She spoke after an extraordinary RFEF meeting on Friday in which a defiant Rubiales claimed he was the victim of “a social assassination” and that he had “suffered persecution” while head of the RFEF.
In the statement, released by players’ union FUTPRO, they said: “It fills us with sadness that such an unacceptable event is managing to tarnish the greatest sporting success of Spanish women’s football. After everything that happened during the Women’s World Cup medal ceremony, we want to state that all the players who sign this letter will not return to a call-up from the national team if the current leadership continues.”Within that letter, Hermoso denied the kiss was consensual.
“While it is true that I do not want to interfere with the multiple ongoing legal processes, I feel obliged to report that Mr. Luis Rubiales’ words explaining the unfortunate incident are categorically false and part of the manipulative culture that he himself has generated. “I want to make it clear that at no time did the conversation to which Mr. Luis Rubiales refers to in his address take place, and, above all, was his kiss ever consensual. I want to reiterate as I did before that I did not like this incident.”
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