The Spanish soccer federation has referred to as an “extraordinary and pressing” assembly over the Girls’s World Cup kissing row.
Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales has refused to step down from his position because the federation’s president however has been suspended by FIFA after he kissed girls’s staff participant Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain’s 1-0 win towards England final Sunday.
He was broadly anticipated to resign at a gathering on Friday however as an alternative made a defiant speech, claiming he was the sufferer of a witch-hunt by “false feminists”.
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Assist is rising for Spain’s World Cup-winning girls’s staff after they stated they won’t play any matches for the nation till Luis Rubiales has been faraway from his job
Spain’s girls’s staff coach Jorge Vilda described the disaster as “an actual nonsense” that has “tarnished a well-deserved victory” for the gamers and the nation.
The Spanish federation’s interim president Pedro Rocha has referred to as the assembly on Monday “to judge the scenario during which the federation finds itself” and have a look at “the choices or actions to be taken”, a spokesman stated on Sunday.
An inner investigation has additionally been launched after the federation’s sexual violence protocol was activated.
Maria Dolores Martinez Madrona, the protocol’s safety delegate who’s conducting the investigation, stated in an announcement “we demand the utmost respect for the correct to privateness and dignity of each particular person concerned”.
Hermoso has stated that “in no second” did she consent to the kiss.
On Saturday, she appeared amongst spectators on the Girls’s Cup last between Atletico Madrid and AC Milan – and was applauded by the gang.
Gamers on the match held a banner studying: “With you Jennifer Hermoso”.
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