FIFA provisionally suspends Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Federation

Luis Rubialespresident of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF)was suspended this saturday at FIFA and he was disqualified for 90 days for “any world competition” as a result of the so-called Jenni Hermoso case, a soccer player whom the leader kissed on the lips without consent.

This Friday, the Spanish women’s soccer team announced, through a statement, that they will not be part of a call again while Rubiales remains in office.

After the words of the leader, who stated that it was a consensual kiss and that he will not resign due to the reprehensible act, the players issued a statement in which they demanded exemplary measures against the federation’s president and assured that they will not play with him again. Spain Yeah rubiales stay at your post.

The statement of the Spanish soccer players

“The players of the senior team, recent world champions, in support of Jennifer Beautiful, want to express their firm and resounding condemnation of behaviors that have violated the dignity of women. From our union we want to emphasize that no woman should feel the need to respond to the forceful images that the whole world has seen and of course, they should not be involved in non-consensual attitudes”.

“The players of the Spanish Soccer Team, current world champions, expect strong responses from the public powers so that actions such as those contained do not go unpunished. We want to end this statement, asking for real changes, both sporting and structural, that help the National Team to continue growing, in order to be able to transfer this great success to later generations,” added the world champions.

Finally, the players of Spain culminated by banging the table in their repudiation of rubiales: “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 Cupwe want to state that all the players who sign this document will not return to a call for the National Team if the current leaders continue.”

In addition to Jennifer Beautifularound 50 other Spanish soccer players signed the forceful statement in which they accompany the midfielder in denying the words of the president of the RFEF and they are inflexible until the necessary measures are taken in the federation.

Also, by her own account, the player of the Pachuca Mexico issued a statement in its social networks where he assured that there was no consent. “I want to clarify that at no time did I consent to the kiss he gave me and in no case did I seek to raise the president.

I do not tolerate my word being questioned, much less that words are invented that I have not said,” said the footballer forcefully.

The situation of rubiales It was already delicate before the statement from the soccer players, after the distancing expressed by the president of the government, Pedro Sanchezand even by kings Felipe VI and Letiziawho postponed a reception to the campus, to avoid an image with the controversial leader.