Spanish soccer chief Luis Rubiales mentioned, he would “combat to the top” and refused to resign from his place as Royal Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF) president. Rubiales got here below the scanner for kissing Spain’s star participant Jennifer Hermoso.
Rubiales planted the kiss after Spain gained the Girls’s World Cup 1-0 towards England. After 33-year-old Hermoso collected her winner’s medal, she mentioned the kiss was one thing she “didn’t like” and “didn’t anticipate.”
On Monday Rubiales mentioned that the kiss was a mistake. Nevertheless, criticism stored pouring in from the soccer world and Spanish politicians, together with Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez. Sanchez mentioned the apology for the “unacceptable gesture” was “not sufficient.”
Rubiales mentioned he was being ‘socially murdered’ in a witch hunt by ‘false feminists’. He additionally mentioned the kiss was consensual. “It was a spontaneous kiss … It was spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and with consent, which is the important thing. That is the important thing to the entire criticism, of the entire marketing campaign which has been mounted on this nation: that it was with out consent. No. It was with consent,” he mentioned.
Rubiales mentioned he needed to console Hermoso, who had missed a penalty. “I informed her, ‘You have been improbable, we wouldn’t have gained this World Cup with out you,’” he defined. “She replied to me, ‘You’re superior.’ And I mentioned, ‘A small peck?’ And he or she mentioned, ‘OK,’” CNN reported.
Worldwide soccer governing physique FIFA mentioned that it had opened disciplinary proceedings towards Rubiales.
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