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Ms. Muñoz, who resigned in 2019 after a year on the job, recounted for the first time the reasons for her departure. (Mr. Rubiales has previously denied any wrongdoing in either case). Fifteen of the federation’s 18 board members were men, Ms. Muñoz recalled. Players tried and failed to force change last year over the behavior of Mr. Vilda, the now-fired national coach. Mr. Vilda also required players to keep their doors open at night until he could check that each of them was in bed.

Persons: Muñoz, “, ”, Rubiales, Vilda, Boquete, ” Ms Organizations: Team Locations: Saudi Arabia, Spain

☆ Pressure Mounts on Spanish Soccer Chief Over Kiss at World Cup
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Rachel Chaundler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The pressure is on for Luis Rubiales, the president of Spain’s national soccer federation, to quit. In an emergency meeting that went on late into Monday night, Spain’s regional soccer chiefs unanimously asked him to step down immediately. And in Madrid on Monday night, hundreds of people took to the streets, waving red cards and demanding Mr. Rubiales’s resignation. Mr. Rubiales, a former professional soccer player, had hoped to play a match with friends on Saturday evening at the town’s municipal stadium. Feminist groups threatened to protest outside the gates, and the town council ordered it canceled, saying it could not guarantee Mr. Rubiales’s safety.

Persons: Luis Rubiales, Jennifer Hermoso, Rubiales, Rubiales’s, “, ” Organizations: Prosecutors, Spain, National Sports Council Locations: Madrid, Motril

Spanish prosecutors said on Monday that they had opened an investigation into whether Luis Rubiales, the president of the country’s soccer federation, could be charged with committing an act of sexual aggression after he kissed one of the female team’s players on the lips when they won the World Cup this month. Opposition has steadily grown in response to Mr. Rubiales’s conduct and his strident defense of it, and the group he heads, known formally as Royal Spanish Football Federation, has found itself under increasing pressure to take action. The group was meeting later Monday to discuss the issue. Mr. Rubiales was shown on video after the World Cup final in Sydney on Aug. 20 kissing one of the team’s star players, Jennifer Hermoso, and although he apologized the day after, he then took a defiant stand later in the week. He said Ms. Hermoso had lifted him off his feet and “moved me close to her body,” accusing his critics of “false feminism” and saying he was the victim of “social assassination.” Ms. Hermoso countered in a statement, “At no time did I consent to the kiss that he gave me.”

Persons: Luis Rubiales, Rubiales’s, Rubiales, Jennifer Hermoso, Hermoso, “, ”, ” Ms Organizations: Opposition, Royal Spanish Football Federation Locations: Sydney

☆ Spanish Soccer Chief Finds His Defenders Backing Away
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-27 | by ( Rachel Chaundler | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

When the president of the Spanish soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, kissed Jennifer Hermoso, a star forward on the Spanish national team that had just won the Women’s World Cup, much of the Spanish news media condemned his behavior. Most mainstream outlets, along with Spaniards on social media, called out the kiss as evidence of a callous disregard for Ms. Hermoso and, more broadly, lingering sexism in soccer. Not the radio sportscaster Manolo Lama. Mr. Lama said on a popular late-night show on the Cadena Cope radio station, “Those who are angry, it’s because they have never been kissed.” He used the female pronoun for “they” in Spanish. Earlier, in a post-match interview with Mr. Rubiales, also on Cadena Cope, a popular sports presenter, Juanma Castaño, did not question the federation president about the appropriateness of his behavior.

Persons: Luis Rubiales, Jennifer Hermoso, Hermoso, Manolo Lama, Lama, Rubiales, Cadena Cope, Juanma Castaño, peck, ”, Mr, Castaño, “ Organizations: Spanish national, Cadena Cope Locations: Spanish

☆ Spanish Soccer Federation Says It Will Sue Over Player’s Account of Kiss
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Aaron Boxerman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Spain’s soccer federation late Friday threatened legal action to protect its president’s reputation after a member of Spain’s victorious women’s World Cup championship team said he had forcibly grabbed and kissed her on the lips, prompting calls for his resignation. Luis Rubiales, the Royal Spanish Football Federation chief, has insisted he did nothing wrong with regard to the player, Jennifer Hermoso, who said she never consented to his actions but had faced pressure to publicly back Mr. Rubiales. Mr. Rubiales’s kiss — broadcast live to millions — cast a pall over the team’s celebrations and recalled a history of accusations of sexism in Spanish soccer. “I want to clarify that, as seen in the images, at no time did I consent to the kiss he gave me,” Ms. Hermoso said Friday in a statement issued by the country’s soccer union. “I do not tolerate my word being questioned, much less that it be made-up words that I haven’t said.”

Persons: Luis Rubiales, Jennifer Hermoso, Rubiales, Rubiales’s, ” Ms, Hermoso, “, ” Organizations: Royal Spanish Football Federation

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