(Madrid) 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 Spain’s victory 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 Spain’s footballing highest representative who, once again, and guided by his habitual and continuous 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 standing genitals next to The Queen and Her Royal Highness the Infanta Doña Sofía is inadmissible and disgusting”, in reference to another moment from the Sunday evening broadcast on the televisions around the world.
We indeed 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 […] that has gone down in the history of world sport and, more serious still, which will forever be linked to our women’s national team”, vituperates the women’s league, which regrets this moment of “international shame unprecedented for the ‘Spain brand’, for Spanish sport and for global women’s football”.
“The gravity of the facts, the damage caused and the unanimous rejection on a global scale force decisions to be made. Public opinion was clear. Spain and Spanish football do not deserve a representative of this level, and the institutions must accompany and respond to the feelings of society, “concludes the text.
Since Sunday evening, the controversy around this forced kiss has not ceased to swell, reacting to the Spanish Prime Minister, the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE) or the famous American footballer Megan Rapinoe.
Luis Rubiales, who initially brushed off such criticism, apologized in a video saying “there is nothing else to do” about the extent of the “commotion” his gesture has caused. provoked.
The RFEF will hold an extraordinary general meeting on Friday devoted to the subject.