The Spanish football world champions announced to the federation that they refused to return to play with the selection and are demanding more changes after the forced kiss scandal, AFP learned Friday from a source close to the body. leader of Spanish football. “They are not coming back,” said this source, without giving further details. The announcement of this refusal comes a few hours before the presentation, scheduled for 4:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. GMT), of the list of the women’s “Roja” for the matches against Sweden and Switzerland in the Nations League by the new coach Montsé Tomé .
The 23 world champions announced at the end of August their refusal to wear the “Roja” jersey as long as the leaders of Spanish football remained in place, as a sign of protest after the forced kiss of the president of the federation Luis Rubiales to the player Jennifer Hermoso, just after their world title on August 20 in Sydney. As a reminder, the latter presented his resignation from the presidency of the Spanish football federation.
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