2023-08-28 07:45:55
BarcelonaAfter the speech on Friday in which Luis Rubiales, when he was still president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), refused to resign and defended that the kiss on the mouth of Jenni Hermoso had been consented to, the footballers and a large part of the state sport broke out. But there are still illustrious Spanish athletes who have remained silent. They are not obliged to say anything, but they have a presence on social networks, with large numbers of followers and a very relevant speaker.
Sergio Ramos, the former captain of the Spanish men’s national team and the footballer who has played for Spain the most (180 games), has not spoken out in any way. He is currently without a team after running out of contract with PSG and not being renewed by the Parisian outfit. Nor have two world and European champions with the national team such as Gerard Piqué (a partner of Rubiales in the commissions to take the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia) and Carles Puyol said anything publicly. All three have active accounts on the X network (formerly Twitter) and their last tweets were precisely to congratulate the players for winning the World Cup. Instead, no message supporting Hermoso or criticizing Rubiales. Dani Carvajal, current captain of Spain and Real Madrid, has also not had any public gesture of support.
Beyond the world of football, Rafa Nadal, considered by a large part of popular opinion to be the best Spanish athlete of all time, has not sent any message of support either to Hermoso or to the female footballers. The manacorí is also a user of the X network and has more than 15 million followers. Nor have they expressed anything Carlos Alcaraz (674,800), current number one in the world; Paula Badosa (147,000), the Spanish tennis player with the best position in the ATP ranking (48), or Garbiñe Muguruza. The last interaction on the networks of the Girona player was to announce that this season she will no longer compete due to an injury, while the Spanish-Venezuelan did record a video to celebrate the World Cup.
In the motor world, silence from Fernando Alonso (3.6 million) or Carlos Sainz, both from the father (283,000) and from the son (2.2 million). Both Alonso and Carlos Sainz Junior competed in the Dutch Formula 1 GP yesterday, Sunday. Marc Márquez (2.7 million), the rider of Spanish nationality who has won the most World Motorcycle Championships (8) has also not said anything about it. Laia Sanz (151,400), Spain’s most prominent motorsport athlete at the moment, has remained similarly quiet, although her profile is much lower in the media.
Other prominent Spanish athletes, such as golfer Jon Rahm (324,200) or Olympic medalist Mireia Belmonte (294,700), who did congratulate Spain’s soccer players for their World Cup win, have also said nothing. They are illustrious silences of well-known athletes from the State in front of what, from the state executive, has been called the Me Too of Spanish football.
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