2023-09-16 04:08:59
The world champions with Spain maintain their resignation from the national team as long as there are no more changes in the Spanish Federation (RFEF), after the episode of the forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso, sources close to that organization announced to AFP.
“They are not coming,” these sources stated without giving further details, hours before the new Spanish coach, Montse Tomé, announces her first list for the Nations League matches against Sweden and Switzerland.
The new coach will have to draw up her list without being able to resort to the dozens of players, including the 23 world champions, who on August 25 resigned from the national team as long as there were no changes in the RFEF.
At the medal ceremony for the competition won by Spain, the resigned president of the RFEF, Luis Rubiales, kissed Jenni Hermoso on the mouth, causing surprise and indignation around the world.
Jenni Hermoso and Luis Rubiales starred in the viral video of the 2023 Women’s World Cup final. | Photo: Getty Images // Capture video 1
Days after his action, Rubiales refused to resign at an RFEF assembly and insisted that the kiss had been “consensual,” provoking a reaction from the players.
The signatories asked for “real structural changes that help the senior team to continue growing.”
Furthermore, “all the players who sign this letter will not return to a national team call-up if the current leaders continue,” they stated in the statement.
Rubiales ended up resigning last Sunday, after his suspension by FIFA for 90 days, the opening of a file in the Spanish Sports Administrative Court and is the subject of a criminal investigation for the alleged crimes of “sexual assault” and “coercion.”
The former president of the RFEF testified this Friday before the judge investigating this case at the National Court, the main Spanish criminal court.
The Spanish women’s team was world champion. | Photo: Jose Breton/NurPhoto
Tomé has to give the list for the next Nations League matches, on September 22 against Sweden in Göteborg and on the 26th in Córdoba against Switzerland, a tournament that is a qualifier for the Paris Olympic Games.
Sanctions that would come
After learning of this, several media outlets in Spain began to publish more information about the implications that this decision by the players would have. The media El País, from Europe, cited three possible sanctions that the athletes could face.
One by one, these are explained by The Sports Law: “the unjustified lack of attendance at the calls of the national sports teams, as well as the failure to make available to the national teams the athletes who have been designated to form part of them” they explain.
This would be the alleged partner of Jenni Hermoso, the player who was kissed by Luis Rubiales. | Photo: Taken from Instagram @jennihermoso
The aforementioned media, scrutinizing article 104, gave a point by point example of how much this could be worth to the players in economic terms, in addition to other sporting implications where they could be kept away for up to more than 10 years:
a) Fine, not less than 3,000.01 nor more than 30,000 euros.
e) Prohibition of access to stadiums or places where tests or competitions are held for a period of no more than five years.
i) Suspension of federal license or equivalent temporary qualification for a period between two and fifteen years.
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