2023-08-27 00:25:42
Who to support him, again? Spain women’s coach Jorge Vilda said on Saturday evening that he regretted the “inappropriate behavior” of Luis Rubiales, accused of sexual assault by Spanish international Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup final. world Cup.
“I regret that the victory of women’s football has been tarnished by the inappropriate behavior that our most senior leader to date, Luis Rubiales, has shown and himself admitted,” the coach said for the first time in a statement released. to the EFE agency and picked up by several Spanish media.
A few hours earlier, six members of the coaching staff of the Spanish women’s team had submitted their resignation, expressing “their firm and categorical condemnation of the behavior of Luis Rubiales with regard to Jennifer Hermoso”. Jorge Vilda did not submit his resignation.
Rubiales does not want to resign
Rubiales sparked international outrage when she forced a kiss on the mouth of Jenni Hermoso on August 20 during the Women’s Worlds medal ceremony. Against all odds, he refused to resign at an extraordinary general meeting of the RFEF on Friday and counterattacked by claiming that this kiss was “consensual”.
The player denied. “I felt vulnerable and victim of an aggression, an impulsive and sexist act, out of place and without any consent on my part,” the 33-year-old Spanish number 10 said on Friday evening. The boss of Spanish football is the subject of four complaints of sexual assault received Friday by the Spanish prosecutor’s office, but none come from the player for the moment.
Two days after opening a disciplinary investigation against Luis Rubiales, the International Football Federation (Fifa) decided on Saturday to “provisionally suspend Mr. Luis Rubiales from all football-related activity at national and international level”.
Cascading reviews
The affair, already dubbed the “#MeToo of Spanish football”, sparked an avalanche of criticism and pressure towards Rubiales in the sporting and political world, in Spain and beyond, and made headlines around the world.
In an interview with El Pais, the Spanish Minister of Sports, Miquel Iceta, deplores “an episode that has given us the image of a macho Spain”, while the country is often presented as a leader in the fight against violence against women.
Shortly after Fifa’s sentence, the coach of the Spanish men’s team Luis de la Fuente also distanced himself from Rubiales by denouncing “inappropriate” behavior.
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