{"id":2013493,"date":"2023-08-27T11:26:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-27T15:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spanish-soccer-federation-to-hold-urgent-meeting-over-kiss-scandal\/"},"modified":"2023-08-27T11:29:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-27T15:29:39","slug":"spanish-soccer-federation-to-hold-urgent-meeting-over-kiss-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spanish-soccer-federation-to-hold-urgent-meeting-over-kiss-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish soccer federation calls urgent meeting on kiss scandal."},"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\">18<\/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%2Fspanish-soccer-federation-to-hold-urgent-meeting-over-kiss-scandal%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=2013493&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 class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>MADRID (Reuters) &#8211;<\/strong> Spain\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/combat-vet-paralympian-blasts-gestapo-tactics-of-u-s-soccer-after-losing-council-seat-racism-accusations\/\" title=\"Combat Vet, Paralympian Blasts \u2018Gestapo Tactics\u2019 Of U.S. Soccer After Losing Council Seat, Racism Accusations\">soccer federation<\/a> will hold an urgent meeting on Monday as \u2063its\u2064 president, Luis Rubiales,\u2064 faces\u200c a \u200dFIFA \u2064suspension and a\u2064 storm\u200c of criticism\u200d over allegations he gave a player an unwanted kiss on the lips after Spain\u2062 won the Women\u2019s \u2062World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales has refused to \u200bresign over the incident \u2064with player Jenni Hermoso last Sunday in Sydney, saying \u200bthe kiss was \u200bconsensual. Players and a string of \u200ccoaches on\u200c the women\u2019s squad are demanding he go, and the government also wants him out.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF)\u2064 has called regional federations to\u2064 the \u201cextraordinary and\u200b urgent\u201d meeting \u201cto\u2064 evaluate \u200dthe situation in which \u2063the federation finds itself\u201d following Rubiales\u2019 suspension, a RFEF spokesperson said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Global soccer\u2019s \u200cgoverning body FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings \u200cagainst Rubiales on Thursday and\u200c announced on Saturday\u200d he had been suspended for three \u2062months from national and international soccer activities pending an investigation. <\/p>\n<p>Rubiales,\u2064 46, said he would use the FIFA probe to\u2063 show his \u2062innocence.<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales played mainly in \u200cSpain\u2019s second division in a career spanning 12 years. When \u2062he was elected to lead the RFEF in 2018, he promised to modernise\u200b its structure, increase turnover and make the federation more transparent.<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish government cannot fire Rubiales\u2063 but has strongly denounced his actions \u200cand said on \u200cFriday it was seeking to get him \u200bsuspended using a legal procedure before a sports tribunal.<\/p>\n<p>The uproar\u2064 has come in a\u200c country where gender issues have become\u200d a prominent topic in \u200drecent years. Tens of \u200bthousands \u200cof women \u200bhave taken part in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fifa-suspends-spains-soccer-chief-luis-rubiales-over-kiss\/\" title=\"FIFA suspends Spain's soccer chief for kiss incident.\">street marches protesting<\/a> against sexual abuse and violence.<\/p>\n<p>Labour \u2064Minister Yolanda Diaz is due on Monday to meet representatives of\u200b the\u200c women\u2019s players\u2019 union FUTPRO, which represented Hermoso, and the Association of Spanish \u200dFootballers to ensure football \u200bis\u200c a\u200b sector \u201cthat has decent conditions and spaces free of\u2064 sexist violence\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Maria Jesus \u2063Montero, acting budget minister, said on\u2063 Sunday Rubiales should not return to leading Spanish soccer. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA\u2064 person who\u2062 lies, who \u2062has made a show of not having understood what the fight for equality means in an area as \u200bimportant as sport, cannot have the direction of football in this country in his hands,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>APPLAUSE FOR HERMOSO<\/p>\n<p>Hermoso, who has said she did not\u200d consent to the\u200d kiss and felt\u200b \u201cvulnerable and the victim of \u2062an aggression\u201d, has been warmly supported \u200cby fellow players and many in\u200c wider society.<\/p>\n<p>She was \u2063applauded by the crowd\u200c when she was spotted\u200c on a balcony with dignitaries\u2062 at the Women\u2019s Cup final between Atletico Madrid \u2063and Milan\u200c on Saturday evening. Players at the match held\u200b a banner reading: \u201cWith you Jennifer Hermoso.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Players from Orlando Pride and\u200c San\u200d Diego \u2062Wave wore\u2063 wristbands supporting Hermoso\u200d during their National Women\u2019s Soccer League match in Orlando, Florida, on Friday. Players \u2063in Sweden also wore \u200dsupportive messages on \u200cwrist tape on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>All 23 of Spain\u2019s cup-winning \u2064squad including Hermoso, as well as dozens of other squad members, said on Friday they would \u2064not play internationals while Rubiales remained head of the federation. Their next match is away to \u2064Sweden in \u200dthe Nations League \u2063on Sept. 22.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, 11 members of\u200d the women\u2019s team\u2019s coaching staff offered their resignations to the RFEF in a statement supporting Hermoso\u2064 and\u2062 condemning Rubiales. Coach Jorge Vilda said on Saturday he regretted the\u2062 \u201cinappropriate behaviour\u201d of Rubiales.<\/p>\n<p>Feminist groups have called a demonstration on Monday in Madrid entitled \u2064\u201cWith You Jenni\u201d. Hundreds\u200d of people staged a demonstration \u200don Sunday in Salamanca against Rubiales.<\/p>\n<p>Andres Iniesta, who won the World \u200bCup and Euros\u200d with Spain\u2019s men\u2019s team, added his voice to the chorus of condemnation\u2064 \u201cas a\u200d father \u200dof \u2064three\u200d daughters, as a husband and\u200b as a football player\u201d, telling his 42.9 million Instagram \u200dfollowers that Rubiales\u2019 behaviour was \u201cdamaging the image of our country and\u2063 our\u2064 football around the world\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Victor Francos, head of the state-run National Sports Council, has called the incident a MeToo moment for Spain. However, he\u200d said on Saturday\u200c it would not damage Spain\u2019s bid\u2062 to\u200c stage the 2030 World Cup along with Portugal and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>  \u200c (Reporting\u200b by Graham Keeley;Editing by Frances Kerry and \u2063Alison Williams)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/uncategorized\/spanish-soccer-federation-to\/attachment\/spanish-soccer-federation-meeting-6\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Hollywood\u200d is mourning the death \u2064of \u200ciconic game-show personality Bob Barker.<\/strong> Here\u2019s more on the \u200cstars legacy.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>This week has been \u2064filled With major headlines in\u200c the U.S. and around the world.<\/strong> One America\u2019s Rachel Acenas has more in \u200bour Week In\u2064 Review.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>Dr. Tabia Lee<\/strong>, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spanish-soccer-federation-to-hold-urgent-meeting-over-kiss-scandal\/\" title=\"Spanish soccer federation calls urgent meeting on kiss scandal.\">black diversity \u2064equity inclusion director<\/a> at a California college, says she was\u200c recently fired for asking questions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan<\/strong> is holding\u200d a hearing \u200bon Monday, August \u206428th to determine a trial date in former President \u200cTrump\u2019s D.C. case. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>STOCKHOLM (Reuters) &#8211;<\/strong> Sweden\u2019s Ericsson predicted on Friday intellectual property rights (IPR) licensing income of 11 billion Swedish crowns ($1 billion) this year\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>By Hannah Lang (Reuters) &#8211;<\/strong> Cryptocurrency brokers, \u2064including exchanges and payment processors, would have to report new information on \u200cusers\u2019 sales and exchanges\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>By Hannah\u200d Lang (Reuters) \u2013<\/strong> Cryptocurrency\u2062 brokers, including exchanges and payment processors, would have to report new information on users\u2019 sales and\u2026 \u200c <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>By Aditi Shah, Aditya Kalra and Nikunj\u2064 Ohri NEW DELHI (Reuters) &#8211;<\/strong> India is working on a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-republican-pushes-probes-into-biden-administration-ties-to-green-energy-interests\/\" title=\"Top Republican Pushes Probes Into Biden Administration Ties To Green Energy Interests\">electric vehicle policy<\/a> that would\u2026 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain&#8217;s soccer federation will convene an emergency meeting to address the controversy surrounding its president, Luis Rubiales. Facing a potential FIFA suspension and widespread backlash, Rubiales is accused of forcibly kissing a player following Spain&#8217;s victory in the Women&#8217;s World Cup. 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