Vie. May 17th, 2024



The Spanish soccer federation president, Luis Rubiales, apologised after he planted an unsolicited kiss on player Jenni Hermoso’s lips during celebrations of the country’s Women’s World Cup victory.
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The incident happened as Rubiales handed the Spanish team gold medals after they beat England 1-0 in the final and has sparked outrage online. Hermoso told teammates afterwards in the locker room that she ‘didn’t like it,’ according to video footage posted on Instagram however she later downplayed the incident in a statement sent to Spanish news agency EFE by the federation. Rubiales said he saw the kiss as ‘something natural, normal’ but admitted he can ‘learn from this’.

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24 comentario en “'Tarnished the celebration': Luis Rubiales apologises after kissing Jenni Hermoso”
  1. The only problem I see with this is that these women might have husband's or boyfriend's back home. They are not all his personal harem girls. If he had done that to my girlfriend I would have been furious. I wouldn't have trusted him with my girlfriend ever.

    That said though, this one girl was celebrating the kiss later on with her friends and making fun about it, there are videos showing her happy about it. She was not hurt by it or upset. Now she is just lying and suing for money and fame or whatever.

  2. The reality is, after leading the Men's, Women's and Jr teams to titles for Spain on the biggest stage, had he murdered someone, after serving his sentence, he would have gotten his job back….but he kissed a girl and his life is over….

  3. It’s weird how she was sharing memes about it and laughing about it on the bus with her teammates, and chanting about it and herself reenacting it for laughs, all on video. And now she’s suing him. She clearly suffered tremendously.

  4. Worst apology ever, he does not take responsability for his actions. He should have said I'm sorry it wasn't appropriate I crossed the line and I apologize to Jenni- end of story.

  5. Just quoting from the Independent: "The Spanish FA initially tried to point to still photos indicating Hermoso had lifted Rubiales off the ground in celebration and thus initiated the kiss. Now footage has emerged of the player laughing with teammates on the team bus after the final while holding up a meme on her phone which poked fun at the incident.

    The meme compared the Rubiales incident alongside a photo of former Spanish men’s goalkeeper Iker Casillas kissing reporter and then girlfriend Sara Carbonero. In the video, Hermoso can be seen smiling as she shows the image while some of her teammates chant “beso”, meaning kiss, and “presi”, referring to the FA president Rubiales."
    Obviously very upset. Her court case against Rubiales is going to be entertaining given the photo and video evidence of this "assault".

  6. Rubiales sense of entitlement to be able to kiss, lift and grope women Caveman/Tarzan style beggars belief! The grabbing of his groin was also another example of his misplaced machismo.

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