Spain coach Jorge Vilda calls World Cup kissing row ‘actual nonsense’ and Luis Rubiales’ behaviour ‘inappropriate’

The coach of the Spanish ladies’s staff has described the World Cup kissing row as “a real nonsense” that has “tarnished a well-deserved victory” for the gamers and the nation.

Jorge Vilda informed Spanish sports activities web site La Marca: “The events that have taken place since Spain won the Women’s World Cup for the first time in its history and to this day have been a real nonsense and have generated an unprecedented situation, tarnishing a well-deserved victory for our players and our country.”

He added that Spain’s victory has been “harmed” by the “inappropriate behaviour” of Spanish FA President Luis Rubiales after he grabbed participant Jenni Hermoso’s face and kissed her on the lips following their 1-0 win in opposition to England within the World Cup ultimate.

“There is no doubt that it is unacceptable and does not reflect at all the principles and values ​​that I defend in my life, in sport in general and in football in particular,” he stated.

On Saturday, FIFA took the choice to suspend Rubiales for 90 days.

Victor Francos Diaz, president of the Spanish authorities’s High Council of Sport (CSD), stated it “respects the decision”.

He stated that whereas the “facts are analysed and investigated” it’s proper that “the person responsible for the events is suspended from his duties”.

Appearing to criticise Rubiales for the primary time, he added: “I think that when, as he said yesterday, when someone insistently says that he is going in the wrong direction, perhaps he must think that it is he who is going in the wrong direction.”

Mr Francos beforehand stated that though Rubiales cannot be sacked by the federal government, the sports activities council will use a authorized process in a sports activities tribunal.

“We want this to be a ‘Me Too’ of Spanish soccer,” he claimed.

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Eleven teaching and technical workers throughout Spanish soccer resigned on Saturday afternoon within the wake of the row.

So far, 56 gamers, together with the 23 who made up the World Cup squad, have vowed to not play till the “federation leadership is removed”.

Hermoso, a 33-year-old ahead, said “in no moment” did she consent to the kiss.

Rubiales has claimed he’s the sufferer of a witch-hunt by “false feminists”, vowing to defend his honour in court docket in opposition to politicians, together with two ministers, who referred to as the kiss an act of sexual violence.

In the model of occasions Rubiales gave to the Spanish Football Federation’s normal meeting on Friday, he stated Hermoso had lifted him up in celebration and he requested her for “a little kiss?” and he or she stated sure.

“The kiss was the same I could give one of my daughters,” he claimed, accusing her of “lying” about her lack of consent.

Before the kiss, Rubiales grabbed his crotch in a lewd victory gesture from the part of dignitaries on the stadium, with Spain’s Queen Letizia and the 16-year-old Princess Infanta Sofia standing close by.

But the Spanish FA has stood by its president, who says the kiss was consensual, and threatened legal action to defend him.

Meanwhile individuals have been gathering exterior the Spanish Soccer Federation in Madrid to protest, with some carrying banners and holding up crimson playing cards.

Gender points have change into a distinguished matter in Spain in recent times with tens of hundreds of ladies collaborating in road marches protesting sexual abuse and violence.