The Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) has called “lies” the accusations against its president Luis Rubiales for his forced kiss on player Jenni Hermoso in the World Cup final.
“The RFEF and the president (Luis Rubiales) will prove every lie published by anyone on behalf of the player, or, if so, by the player herself,” the body said in a statement. press release on the night of Friday to Saturday, while Jenni Hermoso said she was “victim of an assault” in a press release.
The federation indicated that it was going to “initiate legal proceedings” to defend the version of its president who refused to resign on Friday, and who considers that this gesture was “consented”.
Spanish international Jenni Hermoso assured Friday evening that she felt “vulnerable and victim of aggression” when she was kissed by Luis Rubiales on Sunday in the World Cup final, after claiming that this kiss “wasn’t not consented”.
A few hours earlier, Hermoso had assured, in a first press release from her Futpro union, that she had “at no time consented to this kiss”, dismantling the defense of Luis Rubiales.
In its press release, the federation quotes that of Futpro in which the player affirms: “I did not in any case seek to raise the president”.
The RFEF accompanies its press release with four photos to show that, according to it, “the president’s feet are ostensibly lifted from the ground by the action of the player” which precedes the kiss.
The federation also responded to the 23 players of the national team, who announced on Friday that they refused to play in the selection under the current management of the federation.
In its press release, the RFEF recalls that “participation in the selection is an obligation for all people (members of the federation) if they are called by it”.
Against all odds and despite pressure, the boss of Spanish football refused to resign from his post on Friday before the extraordinary general meeting of the RFEF gathered near Madrid.
In office since 2018, the former defender has counterattacked, claiming the kiss was ‘reciprocal’ and ‘consensual’ and that he had obtained permission to do so, while castigating ‘false feminism’.
This case, already dubbed the “
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