2023-11-02 10:00:51
The coach of the men’s soccer team, Luis de la Fuente, the head of Communication of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) until September 29, Pablo García Cuervo, and the deputy director of Communication of the Federation, Enrique Yuntaappeared this Thursday before the judge of the National Court Francisco de Jorge to testify as witnesses in relation to the pressures that were experienced in the federation due to the kiss that his former president Luis Rubiales gave to the player Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup final.
Sources present in the statement indicated that the three They agreed that they were unaware that any type of pressure or coercion had occurred. both the player herself and the press officer of the women’s team, Patricia Pérez, to try to normalize the situation that had been created around Rubiales’ actions, for which the FIFA has suspended him for three years.
Pérez had placed the three in the meeting that was held in Rubiales’ own office to prepare the Integrity report with which the RFEF assessed what happened, in which he said he had spent more than three hours answering questions. Before the head of the Central Court of Instruction number 1, the press officer of the women’s team She reported feeling pressured to write the report. carried out by the then Director of Integrity of the RFEF, Miguel García Caba.
This Thursday before the judge the most extensive statement was that of García Cuervo, who at some point has entered into contradictions with Pérez, which sources consulted have defined as if they had lived “parallel realities”. The Integrity report exonerated Rubiales without having taken the player’s statement; Her testimony was made with what she had declared on Cadena Cope, which was shown to her when she got off the bus, García Cuervo admitted. The witness denied any pressure on Pérez and maintained that the meeting was to give him the opportunity to clarify what he considered appropriate.
De la Fuente, for his part, explained before the judge that he attended the meeting in which the report was drafted but because Rubiales called him to discuss a call for the men’s team. He pointed out that there were many people and that he entered and left the room several times, because he only dealt with what affected him: the call for the national team.
The national coach, who He declared himself “happy” when leaving the National Court, claimed not to know if the pressures that Pérez said he had suffered had occurred, because he had not witnessed them. He also did not say that he had seen anything related to the events investigated on the plane back to Spain, in which Former coach Jorge Vilda did say he had noticed the strained atmosphere..
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Yunta admitted that the atmosphere was “tense” because they wanted the Integrity Department to make its report quickly, but he assured that Patricia Pérez was given an opportunity to change whatever she wanted. She added that she then freely signed it.
In addition to Rubiales, who is accused of crimes of sexual assault and coercion, they also have that condition for the second crime the former women’s coach Jorge Vilda; the director of the men’s team, Albert Luque, and the Marketing director of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Rubén Rivera.
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