The 23 players refused to defend the colors of the national team if the current leadership of the local federation remained for the game.
Spain’s outgoing Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Saturday praised the position of the women’s national football team, who gave a “lesson to the world”, by striking as a protest against the head of the local football federation, Luis Rubiales, who kissed midfielder Jennifer Hermoso on the lips during the Women’s World Cup victory celebration last month in Sydney. .
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Welcoming the decision of the 23 players who won the World Cup, the socialist Sanchez said during a speech in Malaga that “our players won twice: once on the field, and then they gave a lesson to the world, a lesson in equality between men and women.”
The 23 players refused to defend the colors of the national team if the current leadership of the local federation remained for the game.
A few minutes after “La Roja” won the world title on August 20 in Sydney, Rubiales kissed player No.
And Sanchez said on Saturday that “Spain is a feminist country,” speaking of “women who have decided not to bow anymore. Never again. That’s enough,” referring to the slogan that was chanted in the protest rallies in support of Hermoso in the face of Rubiales, who clung to his position.
And he saw that the female players shouted, “This is enough…for the men…for their husbands, for their managers, for the heads of sports federations. This is enough,” speaking of an “unstoppable, gigantic wave.”
Then he asked, “If what happened has damaged the external image of Spain,” answering, “No,” because this protest step by the national team players “is really an ideal reaction” from the players and the Spanish community, who joined them to say, “That’s enough.”
A few hours after Rubiales’s speech to the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Spanish Federation, in which he refused to resign from his post because he should not resign “because of a consensual little kiss,” criticizing what he called “pseudo-feminism,” the 23 players resorted to a strike as long as they did not participate with the national team. There is a change at the head of the union.
On Friday, the Spanish Sports Court decided to open an investigation against Rubiales, coinciding with the disclosure of the government’s intention to demand that the Sports Court stop him.
A week ago, the Spanish government filed a complaint against Rubiales through its National Sports Council, accusing him of “very serious” violations.
Additional sources • ap
2023-09-02 16:03:26
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