{"id":59228,"date":"2023-09-03T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/03\/spanish-boss-releases-explosive-statement-over-non-consentual-wc-kiss\/"},"modified":"2023-09-03T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-03T00:54:00","slug":"spanish-boss-releases-explosive-statement-over-non-consentual-wc-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/03\/spanish-boss-releases-explosive-statement-over-non-consentual-wc-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish boss releases explosive statement over non-consentual WC kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Suspended Spanish football boss Luis Rubiales has launched an extraordinary attack as he serves his 90-day ban.<\/p>\n

Rubiales has been suspended by world governing body FIFA for 90 days while it decides on disciplinary measures following his World Cup kiss on Spanish midfielder Jenni Hermoso.<\/p>\n

He issued his first public statement following his fiery defensive speech last week in which he refused to resign.<\/p>\n

On Saturday he took things a step further on social media as he lashed out at the media and politicians who had \u201clynched\u201d him.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring all this time I have suffered an unprecedented lynching by news outlets and politicians that has completely marginalised me. Not just in Spain but internationally,\u201d Rubiales said in his statement published on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n

The football official continues to argue the kiss was consensual,<\/a> also insisted he was \u201cadvancing the feminist cause\u201d and claimed his case would be significant for \u201creal victims of aggression\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cI have been deliberately sidelined. But I have presented all the relevant images that show the facts. That evidence will ignore opinions and clear my name,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales kisses Jennifer Hermoso of Spain. Photo by Noemi Llamas\/Eurasia Sport Images\/Getty Images.<\/span>Source: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI want to send a message to all the good people in our country and beyond our borders, including those women who have really been attacked and who have my full support and understanding: this is not about gender, it is about truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Saturday the country\u2019s women footballers \u201cgave the world a lesson\u201d by going on strike over federation chief Luis Rubiales\u2019 World Cup kiss.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur players have won twice: first on the pitch, and now in giving a lesson to the world, a lesson of equality between men and women\u201d Sanchez said.<\/p>\n

Hermoso joined a mass strike of women players last week saying she did not consent to being kissed by the country\u2019s suspended football federation chief Rubiales after Spain\u2019s victory in the Women\u2019s World Cup final.<\/p>\n

Sanchez, speaking in Malaga, applauded the players\u2019 stance.<\/p>\n

Last week in a statement released by women players\u2019 union Futpro, Hermoso and 80 other players said they would not accept an international call-up \u201cif the current leadership continues\u201d at the Spanish football federation (RFEF).<\/p>\n

Rubiales, 46, has defied expectations and refused to resign, provoking widespread indignation.<\/p>\n

Sanchez said Spain was a feminist country, with women who had decided \u201cto no longer submit. Never again. It\u2019s over\u201d in reference to the slogan chanted in demonstrations in support of Hermoso.<\/p>\n

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Spain’s national football team newly appointed head coach Luis de la Fuente (R) shakes hand with the President of the Spanish Football federation Luis Rubiale. Photo by Thomas COEX \/ AFP.<\/span>Source: AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Friday, Spain\u2019s sports court agreed to investigate Rubiales for the forced kiss as the scandal-hit football chief insisted he would defend himself to \u201cprove the truth\u201d.<\/p>\n

The government lodged a complaint against Rubiales through the state-run National Sports Council (CSD) a week ago, accusing him of \u201cvery serious\u201d offences.<\/p>\n

In agreeing to take the case, the Administrative Tribunal for Sport (TAD) said it considered the behaviour in question \u201cserious\u201d, falling short of the government\u2019s characterisation of Rubiales\u2019 actions.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Veronica Boquete, a former national team skipper told AFP-TV in an interview on Saturday that the scandal was \u201cthe straw that broke the camel\u2019s back\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means that when there are no cameras, when there is no-one else, when it\u2019s not the final of a World Cup, a lot of other things happen, which we normalise and let pass when that shouldn\u2019t be the case,\u201d said the Boquete.<\/p>\n

The 36-year-old, who plays in Italy with Fiorentina, was axed as skipper in 2017.<\/p>\n

She hit out at the management of coach Jorge Vilda who took Spain to the World Cup title last month despite tensions between him and his players.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the national team, if you complained and wanted to improve things, whoever was in charge didn\u2019t listen to you and very often, you paid the consequences, which were exclusion from the national team,\u201d claimed Boquete.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, it also caused fear of the consequences.\u201d The 56-time capped player added: \u201cAlmost always, in the world of football, the people who are there are men, and they always have a fairly macho mentality. So it\u2019s a constant war.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need people who work for us (women) and who want to do it, and not because it\u2019s an obligation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014 with AFP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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