The Higher Sports Council of Spain promised this Friday to suspend Luis Rubiales as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, after the controversial kiss to Jenni Hermoso at the celebrations for the conquest of the Women’s World Cup.
“The Higher Sports Council will suspend its functions as president of the Spanish Football Federation,” said the president of the institution, Víctor Francos Díaz, at a press conference.
The institution supervised by the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Spain assures that it will present a complaint this Friday to the Administrative Court of Sports (TAD), “because the sports law has been violated and, if the TAD considers it so, in the next days, the Higher Sports Council will be able to assess whether it is a very serious infraction”.
“Today we are going to send a complaint to the TAD, because the sports law has been violated and, if the TAD considers it so in the next few days, we, at the CDS, will be able to assess whether it is a very serious infraction. serious”.
“If the TAD considers that this is a very serious infraction, what I want to tell you is that Mr. Rubiales will be removed from his duties,” promises Víctor Francos Díaz.
The president of the Higher Sports Council explains that “the path of government with this presidency of the federation is finished.”
Víctor Francos Díaz criticizes the attitude of the president of the Spanish federation during the assembly this morning, in which he was “far from resolving the situation and calming the context.”
“That [Luis Rubiales] What it did was fuel the controversy. Explanations are not enough, nor is it enough not to take more steps, which is what the Spanish government was asking for, ”Díaz argues.
And he continues: “Today Mr. Rubiales did not live up to what was expected, what the players of the national team expected, what the government expected and what society expected.”
Víctor Francos Díaz admits to being “surprised”, since he “hoped that the Assembly’s conclusions would be different”.
As president of the Higher Sports Council, Víctor Francos Díaz apologizes to the players, because they did not deserve this week.
This Friday morning, Luis Rubiales refused to resign and defended himself in the case of the controversial kiss to Jenni Hermoso, guaranteeing that it was “spontaneous and consented”.
“It was not a kiss, it was a little kiss. Anyone who sees the video, in front of 80,000 people in the stadium and millions on television, in front of my family, my daughters, realizes that there was no desire or position” . of domination,” said Rubiales.
Source: TSF
