Luis Rubiales throws in the towel. Three weeks after the non-consensual kiss to Jenni Hermoso that tarnished the image of Spanish football and when 15 days have passed since FIFA provisionally suspended him from office for a period of 90 days, the man from Motril announced this Sunday his resignation as president of the Spanish Football Federation (FEF).
“After the swift suspension carried out by FIFA, plus the rest of the procedures opened against me, it is evident that I will not be able to return to my position,” he said in a statement issued at night. «Insisting on waiting and clinging to it is not going to contribute anything positive, neither to the Federation nor to Spanish football. Among other things, because there are de facto powers that will prevent my return,” he added.
Rubiales communicated his resignation to Pedro Rocha, interim president of the Federation after the Motril native had placed him as the only vice president shortly before the Extraordinary General Assembly held on Friday, August 25, with which he tried to entrench himself in the position, despite the pressure. of the Government and the social condemnation of her unpresentable behavior during the final of the Women’s World Cup held in Sydney.
It should be remembered that in addition to the kiss stolen from Jenni Hermoso, Rubiales left an obscene gesture when he grabbed his genitals to celebrate Spain’s victory over England in the final in the authorities’ box and a few meters from where Queen Letizia and the Infanta were. Sofia and the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino.
In addition to the position of president of the FEF, for which Rubiales received a gross salary of 675,761.87 euros in 2022, the fallen leader also resigns from the position of vice president that he held in UEFA and for which he earned another 250,000 euros.
Rubiales leaves boasting about his management throughout the five years in which he has been at the helm of Spanish football, despite the fact that his mandate was punctuated by an inexhaustible trail of controversies such as the dismissal of the then coach Julen Lopetegui at the doors of the World Cup in Russia after the Basque coach accepted an offer to coach Real Madrid, the transfer of the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia, his incessant war with the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, or the alleged orgy in a chalet in Salobreña who would have paid with FEF cards, according to his uncle and former Chief of Staff Juan Rubiales.
He does so by denouncing the existence of a “disproportionate campaign” against him and arguing as one of the reasons for his final goodbye the desire not to harm the options of the joint candidacy of Spain, Portugal and Morocco to host the 2030 World Cup, which was hit hard by the enormous international repercussion of its embarrassing actions in Australia, causing deep concern in the Government.
“I make this decision after having made sure that my departure will contribute to the stability that will allow both Europe and Africa to remain united in the dream of 2030, which will allow us to bring the largest event in the world to our country,” he says.
“Denounce excessive persecution”
Rubiales was sentenced despite the desire to die by killing that had governed his actions since the final of the Women’s World Cup. His subsequent behavior, far from cushioning the blow, contributed to him digging his own grave with pressure on Jenni Hermoso and a defiant attitude that increased the anger of a Government that had supported him in the face of other turbulent episodes in the past, but that He lowered his finger the day the acting president received the world champions at the Moncloa Palace.
Jenni Hermoso denounced Rubiales on Tuesday, which allowed the Prosecutor’s Office to present on Friday in the National Court the announced complaint against the president of the FEF for a crime of alleged sexual assault and another of coercion against the Madrid soccer player, and the Granada native exposes him to a sentence of between one and four years in prison, replaceable in the minimum degree by a fine.
“I must look forward,” says Rubiales, who proclaims his faith “in the truth” and anticipates that he will do everything in his power “so that it prevails.” “My daughters, my family and the people who love me have suffered the effects of excessive persecution, as well as many falsehoods,” maintains the man from Motril, who against the obvious evidence left by the torrent of sentences he has received, argues that “in the street, more and more every day, the truth is imposing itself.
2023-09-10 21:39:37
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