The Spanish professional women’s football league on Wednesday called for the dismissal of the president of the Federation Luis Rubiales for his forced kiss on the player Jenni Hermoso, during the victory of Spain at the World Cup on Sunday. “The Professional Women’s Football League, La Liga F, has lodged a complaint with the President of the Superior Sports Council (CSD) after the very serious acts and behavior of the President of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, in the final of the Women’s World Cup, and is calling for her dismissal,” La Liga said in a statement posted on social media.
“One of the greatest feats in the history of Spanish sport has been tainted by the embarrassing behavior of the highest representative of Spanish football who, once again, and guided by his continuous and habitual desire for leadership, has revealed not to be up to the task he occupies, ”explains the press release. “A boss grabbing his employee by the head and kissing her on the mouth simply cannot be tolerated,” writes La Liga F.
“It’s not just about the kiss,” the text continues. “Celebrating the triumph on the balcony of honor while holding the genitals next to The Queen and Her Royal Highness the Infanta Doña Sofía is inadmissible and disgusting”, in reference to another moment of the evening of Sunday evening broadcast on the televisions around the world.
We see Luis Rubiales grabbing his genitals with both hands to celebrate the Spanish victory … less than two meters from Queen Letizia and the Infanta of Spain. “It’s an attitude (…) which has entered the history of world sport and, more seriously still, which will remain forever linked to our national women’s team”, vituperates the women’s league, which regrets this moment of ” unprecedented international disgrace for the Spain brand, for Spanish sport and for world women’s football”. “The seriousness of the facts, the damage caused and the unanimous rejection on a global scale force decisions to be taken. Public opinion was clear. Spain and Spanish football do not deserve a representative of this level, and the institutions must support and respond to the feelings of society, ”concludes the text.
Since Sunday evening, the controversy surrounding this forced kiss has not ceased to swell, even reacting to the Spanish Prime Minister, the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) or even the famous American footballer Megan Rapinoe. Luis Rubiales, who initially brushed off these criticisms, apologized in a video where he believes that “there is nothing else to do” in the face of the extent of the “agitation” that his gesture has caused. provoked. The RFEF will hold an extraordinary general meeting on Friday devoted to the subject.
