2023-08-23 18:00:51
10 years ago, Luis Rubiales was the president of the Spanish Football Association (AFE). He had just called the first strike in 27 years of First and Second Division footballers to demand that a collective agreement be signed that would create a fund to guarantee the payment of salaries and impose penalties on non-payment.
Toward the outside, a union leader ferry; inside, a ‘capitost’ who was reported for workplace harassment in 2017. Tamara Ramos, Marketing Director of AFE at the time, decided to take legal action against a Rubiales whom she would later confront publicly from the platform given to her by Futbolistes On, another labor organization that she herself founded to defend the rights of female footballers.
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“Humiliations”
“I am not surprised by Rubiales’ actions. What really surprised me is that he finally made it public”, she explained very nervously on Telecinco’s ‘El programa de Ana Rosa’. Trembling, Ramos asserted that he had suffered “for a long time humiliations, beatings [es refereix a cops de puny sobre la taula] and words that I cannot repeat” while he shared a workplace with the current president of the RFEF.
The forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso and his condemnable behavior in the box office, during the final, have led Ramos to step forward to denounce what he experienced in those years. “In front of everyone, he said to me, with the sarcasm that characterizes him: ‘Have you come to put on your knee pads?’ I am a professional who does not deserve this”, she explained in the television program.
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“His apologies to Jenni are false”
These contemptible comments were made in front of top-level footballers and in spaces where Rubiales enjoyed impunity. “He asked me questions like: ‘What color underwear are you wearing today?’ Being a woman in a world of football, where there are few of us, and with the power she held and holds, it is difficult to face her,” she argued.
His statement is directly related to the strategy that has been carried out by the RFEF with the forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso. The federative body disseminated through Efe some false statements by the player, who has never felt comfortable with the situation. ‘Relevo’ revealed after Rubiales’ apology video that he had tried to get the world champion to appear with him in a clip that has convinced no one but himself.
“In the end, I ended up leaving AFE and reached an agreement. With two small 3-month-old babies, it was really hard for me to get to an outlet. He told me to cancel and not give me unemployment. I had to sue him. That’s why I think his speech is not an apology. It’s simply a justification”, criticizes Ramos, to whom this situation, which can end Rubiales, has proved him right.
“There is a lot of masculinity in football. I would love for institutions to take note so that more women are in managerial positions. There are many valid women. When I suffered the harassment, some of my colleagues told me that I should report it, but they were few. This system continues to be clientelistic”, said Ramos, the first to denounce the worst face of Rubiales.
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