The Spanish Team’s Powerful Statement against President Rubiales: World Champions Speak Out

2023-08-25 20:03:04

The 23 players of the Spanish team, crowned world champions last Sunday in Australia, announced in a press release from the FUTPRO union that they refused to play again with La Roja “if the current leaders [étaient] maintained”.

The world champions raise their voices. Six days after La Roja’s coronation in the Women’s World Cup final against England (1-0) and Luis Rubiales’ forced kiss on Jenni Hermoso’s mouth, the 23 players present in Oceania have gone up to the niche to denounce the behavior of the president of the Spanish Federation and announce to withdraw from the selection “if the current management continues”.

“Following the events of this (Friday) morning and faced with the perplexity of the speech of the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation Luis Rubiales, the players of the national team, recently world champions, in support of Jennifer Hermoso, wish to express their firm and categorical condemnation of behavior that undermines the dignity of women,” said the players in a statement shared with the Spanish union FUTPRO.

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The title fades

The signatories have called for “genuine changes, both sporting and structural, which will help the national team to continue to develop” and express their sadness at the magnitude of the Rubiales affair, which has overshadowed the first title of world champion in the history of the Spanish women’s selection.

“From our union, we want to emphasize that no woman should have to respond to the brutal images that everyone has seen and, of course, that they should not be involved in non-consensual attitudes, the champions wrote again. of the world and other players via a press release issued this Friday.The players of the Spanish national football team, reigning world champions, expect strong responses from the public authorities so that actions such as those contained in this document do not go unpunished.”

The signatories of the press release

Jennifer Beautiful; Alexia Putellas; Mass Rodriguez; Irene Paredes; Ona Batlle; Mariona Caldentey; Teresa Abelleira; Maria Perez; Tasting Coll ; Aitana Bonmati; Laia Codina; Claudia Zornoza; Oihane Hernandez; Rocio Galvez; Irene Guerrero; Round Dawn ; Athena del Castillo; Eva Navarro; Enith Hall ; Ivana Andres; Olga Carmona; Salma Paralluelo; Esther González; Patricia Guijarro; Lola Gallardo; Nerea Eizagirre; Ainhoa ​​Moraza; Maria Leon “Mapi”; Sandra Cloths; Claudia Pina; Amaiur Sarriegi; Leila Ouahabi ; Laia Aleixandri ; Lucia Garcia; Andrea Pereira; True Boquete; Ainhoa ​​Tirapu; Sandra Villanova; Ana Romero “Willy”; Silvia Meseguer; Nagore Calderon; Carmen Arce “Kubalita”; Priscilla Borgia; Natalia Pablos; Susan Guerrero; Larraitz Lucas; Elizabeth Benedict; Amanda Sampedro; Isabel Fuentes; Elizabeth Sanchez; Mari Paz Azagra; Vanessa Gimbert; Virginia Torrecilla; Leire Landa; Elizabeth Ibarra; and Marta Torrejon.

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