Suspended Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales resigns after Women’s World Cup kiss scandal. Here's more from ESPN: https://flip.it/OVekvj
#News #Spain #WomensWorldCup #WorldCup #LuisRubiales

Coach o #Spanish men's nat. team begged 4 forgiveness Friday 4 applauding claim by #LuisRubiales that he was victim of smear campaign from “false #feminists” following uproar after kissing player on the lips at #WomensWorldCup.

“I don’t think I have 2 resign, I think I have 2 ask 4 forgiveness," #LuisDeLaFuente said in #Madrid in first public appearance since Rubiales kissed #JenniHermoso after the final in #Sydney, #Australia. “I made an inexcusable human error.”

https://www.euronews.com/2023/09/01/spain-football-coach-regrets-his-support-for-luis-rubiales-and-asks-for-forgiveness#Echobox=1693606416

Well said, Christina Cauterucci!

“Athletes should not have to win world championships & achieve international fame to prove themselves deserving of respect and fair pay.

But incidents like these serve to remind complacent, vindictive, power-hoarding misogynists that they can no longer get away so easily w/the abuses of the past.
Women athletes are seizing their power as a labor force—& often, they are winning.”
#Spain #womensworldcup #soccer
https://apple.news/AtugiuOq1Tgm4Z0ysA0zwOw

Luis Rubiales is the President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). Spain won the World Cup. At the awards ceremony he kissed player Jenni Hermoso without her consent.

This was sexual assault. Full stop. He claims it was consensual. Jenni says otherwise. Believe her.

This about power and misogyny. Allowing him to resign is a let off. He should be fired. And more. He’s a sexual predator.

#FIFA #Spain #SexualAbuse #WorldCup #WomensWorldCup #JenniHermoso #LuisRubiales #BelieveWomen

FIFA Women's World Cup successes reflect gender gap differences between countries https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fifa-women-world-cup-successes.html #football #fifa #WomensWorldCup #WomensFootball #GrassCeiling

Jenni Hermoso 'didn't consent' to Luis Rubiales kiss as #Spain players refuse to play

#JenniHermoso #WomensWorldCup #WomensRights

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66621772

FIFA has suspended Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales while its disciplinary committee investigates his conduct at the Women’s World Cup final. That he kissed a player without her consent is well-documented, but other acts led to the investigation, too. AP reports: https://flip.it/O5qDEH
#News #Sports #WorldCup #WomensWorldCup #Spain

It has been brought to my attention by a number of you that comparing the penis brains at the Spanish Football Federation to Neanderthals is patently unfair to Neanderthals.

I just wanted to state for the record that I agree wholeheartedly and apologise profusely for any offense caused to actual Neanderthals who, I’m sure, would have been appalled by the behaviour of the knuckle-draggers at the Spanish Football Federation.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/26/spain-football-federation-threatens-to-sue-protesting-female-players

#rubiales #spain #WomensWorldCup #patriarchy

Breaking: Neanderthals, once thought extinct, discovered at Spanish Football Federation.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/26/spain-football-federation-threatens-to-sue-protesting-female-players

#rubiales #spain #WomensWorldCup #toxicMasculinity #patriarchy

#womensworldcup
Unbelievable 😡.

Spain football federation threatens to sue protesting female players
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/26/spain-football-federation-threatens-to-sue-protesting-female-players?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Was concerned that the Spanish team’s win at at #WomensWorldCup would ultimately continue to obfuscate the terrible conduct of #Rubiales, #Vilda, the #RFEF et al but damn, these women took a shitty sex pest stealing their spotlight and are turning it into a transformative moment for all women in Spanish football, and hopefully abroad. 56 players refusing to play for the NT until Rubiales is gone? Incredible.
#MastodonWFC

I used to play football as a girl and young woman. Stopped when I was about 20 though a mixture of life and injury. I was fairly good as well, until we all realised I wasn't growing past 5'4 and I had a dodgy left knee. Not good for a keeper.

Seeing how far the women's game has come has been a blessing. I enjoyed the Euros last year and this years #WomensWorldCup was fantastic. But seeing so much attention and respect given to the #Lionesses, the competition and the sport has been the best

ce que je trouve le plus étonnant (et chouette) c'est que dans les commentaires 90% au moins sont positifs, en mode "bravo les filles". Il y a un gars qui a essayé de dire "ouin ouin on peut plus rien faire" et il se fait allumer....
https://www.leparisien.fr/sports/football/apres-le-refus-de-demissionner-de-luis-rubiales-les-23-championnes-du-monde-espagnoles-quittent-la-selection-25-08-2023-MQKJONN5RVFFNCV6NLC2XSYKGM.php

#Football
#Spain
#womensWorldCup

@Tibor Fuck just #Rubiales resigning, the whole damn federation should be dissolved and a 50/50 representation of women and (non-sexist, if such can be found) men should be elected. Clearly the problem is that it’s a boys’ club.

#spain #womensWorldCup #football

Well, it's really not just #Spain ... "#Spanish acting PM says #FA chief’s apologies for kiss are ‘not enough’

Pedro Sánchez says Luis Rubiales gesture towards Jenni Hermoso shows Spain has a long way to go on equality and women’s rights

Condemnation also came from inside Spain’s football community. “I just thought, how barbaric, how embarrassing,” said Miguel Galán, who leads a national facility that trains football coaches. “We can’t overlook that this took place in a work environment. The federation is the employer and she’s the employee. That reality – along with the element of surprise – means she couldn’t react the way she might have if the context had been different.”

#Galán, in his capacity as a national coach with the football federation, lodged an official complaint with the National Sports Council, the government body that oversees sport in Spain."

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/aug/22/luis-rubiales-jenni-hermoso-kiss-spanish-acting-pm-pedro-sanchez-women-rights

#Fußball #Football #WorldCup #WomensWorldCup #Sexism
#WomensFootball #FIFA

The Chief of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, has issued an apology for an incident in which he kissed player ...

#LuisRubiales #Apology #Kiss #JenniHermoso #WomensWorldCup #Football #Spanish

https://www.ganganews.com/sports/luis-rubiales-apologizes-for-inappropriate-kiss-incident/

Congratulations to #Spain, well played and deserved #womensfootball #worldcup2023
world champions.

The good performance of the English women should also be mentioned. Next time #lionesses.

#soccer #womensworldcup #finale #final #espeng

Reading a lot of post-#WomensWorldCup discourse about the gap between men and women’s prize money at the top flight level and how tournaments need to do better. Friends, this is absolutely true but let’s not forget that these women need continued support at their club level from fans, and we can’t let this sport fade into irrelevance once the bandwagon rolls on. Support your local team, support your grassroots club. That’s where the change happens.

The royals ducking the World Cup final has prompted more calls to ‘abolish the monarchy’ https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/08/20/royal-miss-world-cup-abolish-monarchy/ #Lionesses #EnglandWomensFootballTeam #EnglandFootballTeam #WomensWorldCup #FootballAssociation #Sexism #Misogyny #AbolishTheMonarchy #AbolishTheMonarchyNow #NotMyKing

OK, I’ll say it. I’m relieved Spain beat England in the Women’s World Cup Final. #womensworldcup #VivaEspana.