Dozens of Spain girls’s nationwide soccer gamers confirmed on Friday that they might not play for the crew till FIFA president Luis Rubiales was sacked over the Jenny Hermoso kissing scandal on the mouth after Spain’s World Cup victory.
Rubiales refused to resign earlier within the day, angering the gamers and cupboard ministers who criticized his actions as unacceptable and misogynistic.
A complete of 56 gamers, together with Hermoso and all 23 gamers of the World Cup-winning squad, signed a joint assertion despatched by means of Spain’s Fifa Ladies’s Soccer Affiliation calling for the sacking of the governing physique.
Rubiales defended himself and thought of kissing participant Jenny Hermoso on her mouth after successful the world title for the primary time within the historical past of the nationwide crew was “spontaneous, mutual, consensual and consensual”, and that he didn’t achieve this from a “place of energy” primarily based on his place.
On Thursday, FIFA started disciplinary proceedings in opposition to Rubiales.
FIFA mentioned the incident “might represent a breach of Article 13, paragraphs 1 and a couple of, of the FIFA Disciplinary Code”.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez described Rubiales’ actions as “unacceptable”, whereas the Spanish girls’s league, La Liga F, referred to as for his elimination from workplace.
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