It appears that the kissing scandal with Jenni Hermoso won’t prompt Royal Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales to resign after all.
It appears that the kissing scandal won’t prompt Royal Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales to resign after all.
Rubiales, who kissed Jennifer Hermoso on the lips following Spain’s victory in the Women’s World Cup final, reportedly lashed out at what he labeled a “social assassination” and said he won’t resign multiple times during the federation’s emergency general assembly Friday — calling the kiss mutual and consensual, according to multiple reports.
“My desire in that moment was exactly the same as if I’d have been kissing one of my daughters,” Rubiales said Friday, according to ESPN. “No more or less. Everybody understands that. It was a spontaneous kiss, mutual, euphoric, and consensual.
“… In the moment that Jenni arrived, she lifted me up off the ground. We almost fell over. We hugged. I said ‘Forget about the penalty, you’ve been fantastic, we wouldn’t have won the World Cup without you.
