{"id":2011916,"date":"2023-08-25T11:44:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fake-feminists-spanish-soccer-chief-wont-resign-over-on-field-kiss-of-female-world-cup-champ\/"},"modified":"2023-08-25T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:47:04","slug":"fake-feminists-spanish-soccer-chief-wont-resign-over-on-field-kiss-of-female-world-cup-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fake-feminists-spanish-soccer-chief-wont-resign-over-on-field-kiss-of-female-world-cup-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish soccer chief refuses to resign after kissing female World Cup champion, labeled as &#8220;fake feminists&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffake-feminists-spanish-soccer-chief-wont-resign-over-on-field-kiss-of-female-world-cup-champ%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2011916&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<h2>Spanish \u200dSoccer Federation President Refuses to Resign\u2062 Amid Controversy<\/h2>\n<p>Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales refused to resign on Friday after FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against him over his unsolicited kiss on the mouth of player\u200c Jenni Hermoso\u2062 during celebrations after Spain&#8217;s Women&#8217;s World Cup victory.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Let me tell you: I&#8217;m\u2062 not going to resign. I&#8217;m not \u2064going to resign. I&#8217;m not going \u200bto resign,&#8221; Rubiales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/38243585\/spain-chief-rubiales-refuses-quit-unsolicited-jenni-hermoso-kiss-explosive-rant\">said<\/a> Friday. &#8220;I&#8217;ve come under a\u2064 lot of \u200cpressure. Perhaps somebody will look to remove me\u2062 on Monday. But we live in a \u2064country of laws. Is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-claim-conservative-media-manufactured-dumb-outrage-over-snow-white-kissing-controversy\/\" title=\"Leftists Claim Conservative Media Manufactured \u2018Dumb Outrage\u2019 Over \u2018Snow White\u2019 Kissing Controversy\">consensual kiss<\/a> enough to remove me? I&#8217;m \u2064going\u200b to \u200dfight until the\u2064 end.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;These people are\u200b trying to assassinate me and I&#8217;m going to defend myself,&#8221; Rubiales added. &#8220;The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fake-feminists-spanish-soccer-chief-wont-resign-over-on-field-kiss-of-female-world-cup-champ\/\" title=\"Spanish soccer chief refuses to resign after kissing female World Cup champion, labeled as \"fake feminists\".\">fake feminists destroy people<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales has been under fire after kissing \u200dHermoso on the lips while handing the\u2062 team their medals \u200cafter they beat England 1-0 in the final in Sydney \u200don Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident sparked \u2062outrage within and outside Spain, with\u2062 many, including government ministers, \u200ddemanding his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure continued to mount during the week after FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against\u200d Rubiales and Hermoso\u2063 said in statement that such acts &#8220;should never go unpunished&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>As \u200bthe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cosmetics-company-faces-immense-backlash-after-what-it-used-bearded-men-to-advertise\/\" title=\"Cosmetics firm faces huge backlash for using bearded men in ads.\">backlash grew<\/a>, Rubiales, who initially called his critics &#8220;idiots,&#8221; \u2062issued a video \u2063apology late\u200b on \u200dMonday, \u2062but \u2063it \u200cfailed to quell the uproar.<\/p>\n<p>An RFEF \u2063spokesperson declined to comment.<\/p>\n<h3>Crisis Meeting Held to Discuss Rubiales&#8217;s Future<\/h3>\n<p>Regional leaders of the RFEF\u2064 held a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tufts-university-activists-getting-jewish-has-been-biased\/\" title=\"Tufts University Activists: Getting Jewish HAS BEEN Biased\">crisis meeting<\/a> in Madrid on Thursday to discuss Rubiales&#8217;s future and options for a potential successor, \u200ca source told\u2064 Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The favorites to succeed Rubiales are Pedro Rocha, head of \u2063the Extremadura \u2062soccer federation, and \u2063Pablo Lozano, head of the Andalusia federation, the source said.<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales, who played for several lower league clubs in \u2062Spain,\u200c finished\u200b his playing career in 2009\u200b with Hamilton Academical \u200din Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>A\u200b year later he was named President of the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE), a\u200b position he held until announcing his candidacy for the RFEF top\u2063 job in 2017. He was elected in May \u200b2018.<\/p>\n<p>He promised \u2064to\u200b modernize the \u200cstructure, \u200cincrease turnover, and make the federation more transparent, following the arrest of former president\u2062 Angel Maria Villar on corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p>However, Rubiales&#8217;s mandate was full \u2064of controversies, including the shocking decision to sack Spain manager\u2064 Julen Lopetegui two days before their opening \u20632018 World \u200bCup match and accusations of wrongdoing over\u2062 a\u2062 multimillion-euro deal to relocate the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>There was also a mutiny within the Spain women&#8217;s squad last September, when a large group of players demanded that long-standing coach Jorge Vilda\u200d be \u200dsacked. \u200dThe RFEF \u200cbacked Vilda and he cut 12 of \u2062the 15 players involved in the dispute from his World Cup squad.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Fernando Kallas; editing by Charlie\u2064 Devereux and Ed\u200b Osmond)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>going to resign,&#8221; said RFEF president Luis Rubiales, defiantly responding to FIFA&#8217;s disciplinary proceedings following his unsolicited kiss on player Jenni Hermoso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2011917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2011916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}