In a surreal speech, Luis Rubiales repeated that he wouldn’t resign multiple times before apologising for grabbing his crotch next to the Spanish queen.
Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales refused to resign Friday after a week of heavy criticism for his of player Jenni Hermoso following Spain’s Women’s World Cup win.
« I will not resign, I will not resign, I will not resign, » shouted Rubiales at an emergency meeting of the soccer federation, to applause.
« A consensual ‘peck’ is enough to get me out of here? I will fight until the end, » he added.
Rubiales, 46, was expected to step down as president of the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) after government ministers and figures within the sport demanded his resignation and world football’s governing body FIFA opened disciplinary proceedings against him.
One Spanish minister described his actions as « .
