2023-08-21 19:36:57
After the controversy caused by the kiss from the president of the Spanish Football Federation to the soccer player Jenni Hermoso during the celebrations of the team selected in the Women’s Soccer World Cup, Luis Rubiales came out to apologize. The incident sparked rejection on social media.
“I have surely been wrong. I have to recognize it”, he said, and assured: “In a moment of maximum effusiveness – without any bad intentions – what happened happened, very spontaneously and without bad faith on either side.”
“We saw it as normalbut outside a commotion has been generated because of course if there are people who have felt damaged by this I have to apologize, there is no other option,” Rubiales said in a video broadcast today by local media.
“And also learn this and understand that when one is president of an institution as important as the Federation, especially in a ceremony, So you have to be more careful”, he added.
The president of the Spanish Football Federation “kissed” a player and controversy broke out: what did the player say
This Sunday, following the victory of the Spanish team in the Women’s Soccer World Cup, Rubiales kissed the number 10 of the team. The player was quick to express her disagreement with the gesture of the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, and she said: “I did not like”.
An awkward moment that, later in the locker room, the player detailed through a live on Instagram. “Hey, but I didn’t like it”, the soccer player pointed out to her teammates, when they consulted her regarding the kiss that Luis Rubiales gave her moments before. And she added: “But what do I do? Look at me”.
After Rubiales’ gesture went viral, users of social networks shared their criticism of the attitude of the RFEF president.
Subsequently, Jenni Hermoso spoke regarding what happened and asked that “no more thinking regarding it” be given. “It was a mutual gesture, totally spontaneous, because of the immense joy that comes from winning a World Cup”, expressed the player in a statement to the EFE Agency.
And he added: “The president and I have a great relationship, his behavior with all of us was ten and it was a natural gesture of affection and gratitude. A gesture of friendship and gratitude cannot be overturned, we won a World Cup and we are not going to deviate from what is important”.
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