Rubiales Case | Jesús Gil, Lopera, Gaspart… Rubiales and dandruff from another era

“Pico de grima in Spain when the mother of the slimy with the kiss begins a hunger strike”. This was the title of ‘Daily Star’ this week for the penultimate episode of the ‘Rubiales soap opera’. The British tabloid summed up in this lacerating way the international image projected by Spanish football after having reached one of its peaks of glory with the achievement of the women’s World Cup. From pride to shame at a peak. The attitude of the highest representative of Spanish football, holding his testicles in the box next to the Queen and the Infanta before kissing Jenni Hermoso at the World Cup medal ceremony, was a reminder that dandruff has not left Spanish football.

When seeing and hearing Rubiales, more than one must have traveled to the 1990s, where dandy and histrionic characters abounded in the boxes: Jesús Gil, José María Ruiz Mateos, Manuel Ruiz de Lopera, Joan Gaspart, José María Caneda, Ramón Mendoza… Those were the times when Mendoza bounced with the Ultrasur and Gaspart felt like one of the Boixos Nois. “When I stop being president, I will go away for six months with the Boixos Nois,” said the Barça president in 2003, who had the number one card for this ultra group since 1996.

“If deep down he’s not a bad boy / although sometimes he gets out of hand”. With this verse from the song ‘Enrique el Ultrasur’, The Nikis perfectly captured the condescension with which Spanish football treated the adventures of the ‘hooligans’ during those years. The vast majority of clubs tolerated and even financed and cheered on the presence of the violent, who imposed their law in the fields where every day they released their racist, sexist and homophobic chants with impunity. The beatings of rival fans and other supporters of the same club were common, but they preferred to look the other way, considering it an excess of passion for colors, childishness, and the sins of youth.

with fists

Not only did they tolerate violence in stadiums, but some of the presidents resorted to it to settle their disputes. In front of the La Liga headquarters, Jesús Gil did not hesitate to punch José González Fidalgo, manager of Compostela, during a brawl with the president of the Galician club, Jose María Caneda, whom he called a “son of a bitch and a thief”. Caneda was also about to come to blows with Lopera, owner of Betis. “One day Lopera called me a villager and I told him that I was going to give him a host that I was going to throw him out the window”recalled the Galician president.

Two years before becoming president of Rayo Vallecano, José María Ruiz Mateos also decided to throw his fist to attack the Minister of Economy, Miguel Boyer, shouting “I hit you, milk.” A phrase that he would utter again disguised as Superman in front of the Plaza de Castilla courts, where his trial against Boyer was held. The businessman would later create the company Que te pego leche SL and make several advertisements for the Dhul flan brand ridiculing the minister. Ruiz Mateos, addicted to the grotesque, appeared at the headquarters of the Higher Sports Council in a dressing gown, slippers and an endorsement minutes before the deadline for the conversion of the clubs into Public Limited Sports Companies.

Harassment and threats by Ruiz Mateos

Wearing only an open bathrobe and a pair of white socks, he explains that his then-lawyer, Teresa Bueyes, found him when she went up to bring him fruit to a hotel room during a business trip. “I had a very bad time, at that time I was very young and I did not have the defense mechanisms that I have now.” “I’d like to caress you all night,” he recounts as he released her before she scared off. Although she was more scared when he told her that she would not work for him again. “If this happened on a Friday, on Monday he called me and told me where I wanted the scar to be made, where it would look better, on my chest or on ‘that pretty face,'” said the lawyer, who did not public this episode until 2017, two years after the death of the founder of Rumasa.

ON RTVE Play you can see the series ‘Ruiz Mateos, the first viral phenomenon’, which followed in the footsteps of ‘El Pionero’, the HBO series on the life of Jesús Gil, the biggest symbol of dandruff and 90s machismo. The first image that will come to mind for many is that of Gil in a jacuzzi and surrounded by girls in bikinis in the Telecinco program ‘Las noches de tal y tal’, where he gave free rein to his verbiage. The speech of the former mayor of Marbella was full of macho, homophobic and racist comments such as: “Now I was going to sign an important player… and I found out that he is a fagot! I don’t put him in the locker room ”. Or: “I cut the black’s throat, I shit on the fucking mother who gave birth to the black.”

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Enrique Cerezo (president of Atletico Madrid)
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— Sara Segui (@saraseg11) December 11, 2018

Enrique Cerezo, his successor at the head of Atlético de Madrid, has tried to move away from that profile to sell an image of correctness in keeping with the new times, although he has gone out of character on occasion, such as when a journalist asked him about the cost of the signing of Griezmann. “I never talk about money because it’s rude, especially with a woman”. Dandruff in soccer still exists, but what Rubiales forgot is that it no longer airs in front of the cameras.

2023-09-03 07:09:19
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