“The Professional Women’s Soccer League, Liga F, has filed a complaint with the president of the Higher Sports Council for the very serious facts and conduct carried out by the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubialeswithin the framework of the Women’s World Cup Final, requesting their disqualification,” the F League said in a statement on its website.
For her part, the player herself He asked that “exemplary measures” be taken against the RFEF president for the non-consensual kiss.
“My union FUTPRO, in coordination with my agency TMJ, They are taking charge of defending my interests and being the interlocutors on this matterHermoso said in a joint statement released by the union and his agency.
“We are working so that acts like the ones we have seen never go unpunished, are punished and the appropriate measures are adopted that protect soccer players from actions that we believe are unacceptable,” the text added.
FUTPRO will meet on Monday with the second vice president of the Spanish Government, Yolanda Díaz, for Rubiales’ actions to be “duly sanctioned.”
The president of the Higher Sports Council, Víctor Francos, spoke in the same vein, who assured that He is willing to intervene if the RFEF does not take action against Rubiales.
“We have been very clear with the RFEF about the need to open the procedures established by the Sports Law,” Francos said. “We couldn’t get by without opening those internal disciplinary files“, he expressed in the program “El Larguero” of the Cadena SER.
“From there, We are going to wait for the case to be resolved urgentlywhich is very limited with two people involved and not much to investigate,” Francos said.
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The incident – which occurred as Rubiales presented the players with their gold medals after beating England 1-0 in the final on Sunday – sparked outrage inside and outside Spain and many people, including government ministers, they demanded his resignation.
According to the journalist Natalia Torrente, Rubiales “approached the player with the greatest possible discretion to ask her to please help him in this. She told him that she was her position at stake and that if she spoke out she would diminish the importance that was being given.”
Rubiales, who initially called his critics “idiots,” recorded an apology video late Monday, but failed to quell the commotion.
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