Majority of coaches on Spain’s girls’s staff resign as Luis Rubiales vows to battle on
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he majority of teaching employees for Spain’s girls’s soccer staff have resigned in protest towards Luis Rubiales.
Rubiales was provisionally suspended as president of the Spanish FA by FIFA on Saturday after he grabbed and kissed forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips at the end of the Women’s World Cup.
In a press release, eleven coaches and technical employees mentioned they’d resign in protest towards the 46-year-old’s defiant stance concerning the kiss, which Hermoso has mentioned was undesirable.
“The undersigned, in light of the unacceptable attitude and statements made by the head of the federation, have taken the decision to resign from their positions,” the assertion mentioned.
Rubiales has argued the kiss was consensual, regardless of it being condemned as undesirable by the participant involved and her teammates, and mentioned he would defend his “complete innocence”.
In a press release, Hermoso mentioned: “I want to reinforce the position I took from the beginning, considering that I do not have to support the person who has committed this action against my will, without respecting me, at a historic moment for me and for women’s sport.”
Earlier Saturday, FIFA suspended Rubiales from nationwide and worldwide actions with fast impact whereas it investigates.
In a press release by way of the Spanish soccer federation, he mentioned: “Luis Rubiales has stated that he will legally defend himself in the competent bodies, he fully trusts FIFA and reiterates that, in this way, he is given the opportunity to begin his defence so that the truth prevails and his complete innocence is proven.”
Reacting to the suspension, former England star and Barcelona participant Gary Lineker posted on Twitter in Spanish: “Por fin! [At last].”
It comes after a chaotic press convention on Friday through which Rubiales refused to resign, regardless of strain to take action, calling the kiss “spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consensual”.
“I will not resign,” Rubiales repeated 4 instances in fast succession on the assembly earlier than blaming “false feminists” for making him the sufferer of a “social assassination”.
In a press release hours earlier than FIFA’s transfer on Saturday, the federation threatened to take legal action to defend Rubiales but did not say what that would be.
On Friday night, all 23 of Spain’s cup-winning squad together with Hermoso, in addition to 32 different squad members, mentioned they’d not play internationals whereas Rubiales remained head of the federation.