{"id":57342,"date":"2023-08-25T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/25\/victim-of-assault-spanish-star-breaks-silence-on-no-type-of-consent-wc-kiss-as-players-strike\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:15:00","slug":"victim-of-assault-spanish-star-breaks-silence-on-no-type-of-consent-wc-kiss-as-players-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/25\/victim-of-assault-spanish-star-breaks-silence-on-no-type-of-consent-wc-kiss-as-players-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Victim of assault\u2019: Spanish star breaks silence on \u2018no type of consent\u2019 WC kiss as players strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso said Friday she felt like she had been assaulted by the country\u2019s football federation president Luis Rubiales when he forced a kiss on her at the World Cup final.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt vulnerable and a victim of an assault, an impulsive, macho act, out of place and with no type of consent on my part. Simply, I was not respected,\u201d said Hermoso in a statement on social media.<\/p>\n

Rubiales was hit with worldwide criticism in the days since the final on Sunday but refused to resign from his post on Friday<\/a> at an emergency Spanish football Federation (RFEF) meeting.<\/p>\n

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That prompted Hermoso and 80 other players to go on strike from national team duty until the \u201cleadership\u201d changes, while the Pachuca player, 33, spoke at length for the first time about the incident.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe words of Mr. Luis Rubiales explaining the unfortunate incident are categorically false, and part of the manipulative culture that he himself has generated,\u201d wrote Hermoso.<\/p>\n

\u201cI clarify that in no moment did the conversation happen that (he) referenced, and much less, was the kiss consensual … I want to reiterate, as I did at the time, that this act was not to my liking.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Spanish FA chief Luis Rubiales has been slammed for grabbing and kissing star player Jenni Hermoso.<\/span>Source: Supplied<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hermoso said she felt shock and after thinking about it said she wanted to make clear that nobody deserved to be a victim of this type of non-consensual behaviour, for which she has \u201czero tolerance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am sure that as a world champions we do not deserve a culture which is so manipulative, hostile and controlling,\u201d continued Hermoso.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis type of incident joins a long list of situations that us players have been reporting in the last few years … this is just the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back and all the world was able to see it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttitudes like this have been part of the day to day of our national team for years.\u201d <\/p>\n

In the months before the World Cup 15 players went on strike, not including Hermoso, because of disagreements with the RFEF and coach Jorge Vilda, but several relented in their stance before the tournament, with three being called up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso said Friday she felt like she had been assaulted by the country\u2019s football federation president Luis Rubiales when he forced a kiss on her at the World Cup final. \u201cI felt vulnerable and a victim of an assault, an impulsive, macho act, out of place and with no type of consent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6807],"tags":[3281,1429,27964,149,27067,28572,8330,27569,3138,28636,28635,2457,2902,28637],"class_list":{"0":"post-57342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leagues-cups","8":"tag-basketball-world","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-football-federation-president","11":"tag-football-news","12":"tag-free-live-on-espn","13":"tag-jenni-hermoso","14":"tag-jorge-vilda","15":"tag-luis-rubiales","16":"tag-national-team","17":"tag-national-team-duty","18":"tag-players-strike","19":"tag-southern-europe","20":"tag-spain","21":"tag-unfortunate-incident"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}