Jenni Hermoso, a renowned Spanish footballer, intends to file a lawsuit against Luis Rubiales, the president of the Spanish football federation. The reason behind this is that he kissed her without her consent during the Women’s World Cup final. Rubiales, a 46-year-old man, sparked immense outrage by aggressively grabbing the Spanish forward’s head and kissing her on the mouth at Sunday’s event. There is a growing call from numerous individuals for his removal as the head of the RFEF, similar to the FA in Spain.
The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, said that Rubiales’ apology was not enough. Earlier on Wednesday, the Spanish women’s league, Liga F, complained to the National Sports Council (CSD) and asked for Rubiales to be fired.
The CSD might be able to take action now because Hermoso said she will take action against Rubiales. She made this statement on Wednesday evening through FUTPRO, a union for female footballers in Spain.
Hermoso said that his FUTPRO union and TMJ agency will protect his interests and speak on his behalf in this matter.
A longer statement from FUTPRO talked about their complaint: ‘We request the Royal Spanish Football Federation to follow the necessary rules, protect our players’ rights, and take strong actions. ‘
Jenni Hermoso has released a statement and plans to take legal action against Luis Rubiales for forcing a kiss on her.
We need team members who show equality and respect in everything they do.
We must keep working towards equality. Our players have been determined leaders in this fight, and they have brought us to where we are today.
We want the National Sports Council to help stop and prevent sexual harassment, abuse, and unfair treatment towards men and women in sports.
We don’t accept any behavior that goes against the rights of soccer players.
‘We are united in our efforts to ensure that unethical behavior in football, such as the ones we have witnessed, does not go unnoticed or unpunished. We will take necessary measures to protect the football players from actions that we deem unacceptable. ‘
Hermoso’s choice to take action against Rubiales seems to confirm that the statement released, which downplayed the incident and claimed to be from her, was actually written by the RFEF communications team without Hermoso’s permission.
Reports from Spain say that Rubiales wanted Hermoso to be in the video where he said sorry, but she kept saying no.
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