11 Spain women’s coaches resign over Rubiales’ behavior

Eleven members of the technical team of the Spanish women’s national team have resigned, condemning the behavior of Luis Rubiales during the celebration of winning the World Cup in the most “hard and harsh” way. Coach Jorge Vilda remains at his post.

“The undersigned expresses their strongest and strongest condemnation of the behavior of the President of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Manuel Rubiales Bejar, towards the player of the national women’s football team, Jennifer Hermoso,” reads a statement signed by the aforementioned members. the technical composition of the Spanish team, the newspaper quotes Brand.

They continue to criticize the version presented by Luis Rubiales this Friday that a kiss with striker Jennifer Hermoso was agreed to. “Following the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Royal Spanish Football Federation held on August 25, 2023, in which the President did not resign and in which he presented a story that in no way reflects the feelings of the player in question, who explicitly stated that he feels he is the victim of aggression, this part of the Technical Commission supports the player Jennifer Hermoso, approving the version she proposed,” they say.

“Adding the inconvenience of having to attend the aforementioned meeting on 25 August, which was also a particularly painful event for this technical committee, as several female members of the technical committee were forced to attend in the first place, exposing their image and trying to give the society and the players to understand that they share the theses of the president of the federation,” the members of the Technical Commission argue.

“For all these reasons, the undersigned, in view of the unacceptable positions and statements of the RFEF senior leader, have decided to place their positions at the disposal of the RFEF,” they conclude.

This Saturday, the Spanish Football Federation announced a new interim president following the suspension of Luis Rubiales.