“The straw that broke the camel’s back” enrages a Spanish player

2023-09-02 21:19:38

Veronica Boquete, former captain of the Spanish selection, assures that the forced kiss of Luis Rubiales towards Jenni Hermoso is not an isolated act. According to her, it is only the tree that hides the forest.

The «forced fuckgiven to player Jenni Hermoso by Spanish Football Federation boss Luis Rubiales was “the straw that broke the camel’s back“, said Saturday the former captain of the national team Veronica Boquete in an interview with theAFP-TV.

“It’s the straw that broke the camel’s back, because to get there, in front of the eyes of the whole world, it means that, when there are no cameras, when there is no one other, when it’s not the final of a World Cup, a lot of other things happen, which we normalize and let pass when it shouldn’t be the case, ”says the player 36, who plays in Italy at Fiorentina.

Captain of the selection, she was dismissed in 2017 for having denounced the supervision and the incompetence, according to her, of the coach Jorge Vilda, who has just won the World Cup with Spain despite the tensions between him and his players.

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“A constant war for women”

«In the national team, says Boquete, if you complained and wanted to improve things, whoever was in charge didn’t listen to you and very often you paid the consequences, which were exclusion from the national team. So it also caused the fear of the consequences“, she adds.

Denouncing more broadly the treatment reserved for women in professional football, the striker with 56 caps adds: “Almost always, in the world of football, the people who are there are men, and they always have a pretty macho mentality. So it’s a constant war. We need people who work for us (women) and who want to do it, and not because it’s an obligation.»

A few minutes after the world title of La Roja, on August 20 in Sydney, Luis Rubiales kissed on the mouth by surprise the N.10 Jenni Hermoso, causing international indignation. He has since been suspended by Fifa for 90 days, while the Spanish Administrative Court for Sport (TAD) opened disciplinary proceedings against him for “serious misconduct».