2023-08-22 19:39:42
2023 Women’s Football World Cup fileAccording to a survey by the media “Relevo”, the press release speaking of “a natural gesture of affection” was written by the Iberian Federation. Her boss and coach Jorge Vilda are also said to have pressured the player and her family for their support.
New thunderbolt in the Luis Rubiales case. In a survey published on Tuesday August 22, the sports media Relief reveals that statements attributed to player Jennifer Hermoso, shared on Sunday August 20 by the Spanish Football Federation, “[n’appartiendraient] not to the player” and would have “been written by [son] communications service and promptly disseminated to the media. After the outcry caused by the kiss on the mouth imposed by the boss of the Federation Luis Rubiales on the striker of La Roja, in the middle of the medal ceremony for the Women’s World Cup on Sunday, the Federation had broadcast words attributed to the player, according to which it was “a natural gesture of affection and gratitude”.
A few hours earlier in a live Instagram, Jennifer Hermoso had dropped in the locker room of the Spanish selection, about this kiss imposed at the Australia stadium in Sydney: “What could I do? I did not like”. Since then, only the statement in question had supposedly relayed his statements. According to the online media, attempts to frame the communication of the player after the fact would not have been limited to this initiative. Luis Rubiales and coach Jorge Vilda, also denounced by many players for his management deemed toxic, would have put pressure on Jennifer Hermoso for the first, and on her family for the second, with the aim of organizing a crisis communication at their advantage.
Pressure throughout the return flight
“In the midst of sponsors, family members [des footballeuses]the staff, the management and the 23 players [de la sélection]Luis Rubiales to supply Jenni Hermoso [Jenni est le surnom de Jennifer Hermoso, ndlr] to appear with him in a video to be filmed at Doha airport [où ils faisaient escale en rentrant d’Australie, ndlr], to apologize and explain what happened during the medal ceremony, ”says the media, which ensures that the number 10 would have refused at the insistence of the boss of the Federation. However, Luis Rubiales reportedly continued his pressure on the plane taking them back to Madrid. According to Relevo, “many” witnesses among the some “300 people” of the delegation “were able to attend [sa] begs Jenni, although he tried to do it as discreetly as possible”.
In the end, Luis Rubiales appeared alone in a video published on Monday August 21, where he apologizes for the least ambivalent, between asking for “forgiveness if someone has been injured” and assurance of having had a “natural” gesture. , “without bad intention in a moment of euphoria”. Not enough to extinguish the critics who, since Sunday, have been agitating the press and Spanish politicians. This Tuesday, the outgoing Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez considered these explanations “not sufficient” and even “inappropriate”, without going so far as to ask for his resignation, which the Vice-President of the Government Yolanda Díaz did not deprive himself of. .
Coach Jorge Vilda, close to Luis Rubiales (especially since the latter gave him all his support against the revolt of the Spanish players last September) is not spared from the Relevo investigation. “Advocacy [du patron de la Fédération] having failed, it was the turn of Jorge Vilda, writes the sports media. According to several witnesses, the coach approached Jenni’s family members at least three times [Hermoso] present on the plane, in order to convince them of the right way to resolve the crisis”. Jorge Vilda would have suggested to them that the “best thing to do [pour eux] was to tell the player she should speak up to end a case that is spoiling the celebration of the greatest achievement in Spanish women’s football, their first World Cup star. However, it was not Jennifer Hermoso who “spoiled the party”. But the man who allowed himself to attack her at the most important moment of her career.
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