Vilda declares this Tuesday at the National Court as a defendant in the Rubiales case

2023-10-09 22:04:20

Nothing has been heard from Jorge Vilda since the day he was fired as senior women’s coach, more than a month ago. the 5th of September. That same night he gave an interview to Ser and then disappeared from the public sphere, while his lawyers try to resolve his settlement with the RFEF. But today he will reappear, by force, in the National audience. And unlike several of the federation workers and former workers who have paraded and will parade through the court, he will do so today as an investigation for alleged actions in the environment of Jenni Hermoso.

Judge Francisco de Jorge, who is investigating the Rubiales case, initially summoned him as a witness, but decided to modify that condition after hearing the statements of Rafael Hermoso and Ana Ecube, Jenni’s brother and personal friend. Both were also cited as witnesses and victims of the alleged coercion for the world champion to exonerate the behavior of Rubiales, who gave her a non-consensual kiss at the medal ceremony at the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, won by the national team.

Vilda would have been one of the people who, during the return flight from Sydney to Madrid, pressured Jenni – and her family – to agree to appear in an exculpatory video with the former president of the RFEF. On the stopover of that trip, in Doha, Rubiales recorded a video alone, which was broadcast by the RFEF, in which he assured that there was bad intention “on either side” in the kiss he gave Hermoso.

Albert Luque, waiting

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The marketing director of the RFEF is also called today to testify in the National Court as being investigated, Ruben Rivera. One of Rubiales’s strong men who keeps his office in Las Rozas intact. In his case, the coercion would have occurred in Ibiza, on the trip that the internationals took after winning the World Cup.

Same circumstances that led Judge De Jorge to charge the director of the men’s team, Albert Luque. The former international footballer, however, will not testify today, but rather he will do so next Monday, October 16. The statements are also pending, in his case as witnesses and not as investigated, of other workers and former workers of the RFEF, such as the men’s coach, Luis de la Fuente.