{"id":37149,"date":"2023-08-25T11:03:26","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=37149"},"modified":"2023-08-25T11:03:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T11:03:28","slug":"rubiales-refuses-to-resign-after-kissing-spanish-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/08\/25\/rubiales-refuses-to-resign-after-kissing-spanish-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubiales refuses to resign after kissing Spanish player"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Luis Rubiales hit out at \u201cfalse feminism\u201d and a \u201csocial assassination\u201d of his character as he vowed to stay on as head of Spain\u2019s football federation (RFEF) amid fierce criticism and a Fifa investigation for kissing Spain\u2019s Jennifer Hermoso on the lips during the Women\u2019s World Cup final trophy presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a passionate speech at an extraordinary general assembly of Spain\u2019s football federation, the 46-year-old reiterated that he would not be forced out of his role by what he felt was a witch-hunt. \u201cI will not resign,\u201d he repeated emphatically. \u201cI will fight this to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He characterised the events of the past five days as a \u201csocial assassination,\u201d adding: \u201cThey are trying to kill me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Fifa disciplinary committee on Thursday informed the 46-year-old that his actions in Sydney may have violated its disciplinary code after days of pressure on Rubiales, which involved strong rebukes from the Spanish prime minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez, the world player\u2019s union Fifpro, and a number of leading figures in football. It was widely expected that Rubiales would resign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition the Futpro union in Spain, which Hermoso has said is representing her interests in this case, had expressed its \u201cfirm and resounding condemnation\u201d for behaviour \u201cwhich violates the dignity of women\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>More details to follow \u2026<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Rubiales hit out at \u201cfalse feminism\u201d and a \u201csocial assassination\u201d of his character as he vowed to stay on as head of Spain\u2019s football federation (RFEF) amid fierce criticism and a Fifa investigation for kissing Spain\u2019s Jennifer Hermoso on the lips during the Women\u2019s World Cup final trophy presentation. In a passionate speech at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":37150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8439,2701,7960,7823,5500,5247,11638,10197,10608,1565,3174,8297,10479,4293,10480,10041,8840,3346,7231,5320,10392,36,5248],"class_list":["post-37149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-assassination","tag-behaviour","tag-case","tag-code","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-forced","tag-investigation","tag-luis-rubiales","tag-pedro","tag-prime-minister","tag-resign","tag-rubiales","tag-spain","tag-spanish","tag-speech","tag-strong","tag-sydney","tag-union","tag-women","tag-womens-world-cup","tag-world","tag-world-cup"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37151,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37149\/revisions\/37151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}