2023 Women’s World Cup winner, Jenni Hermoso, has insisted that she didn’t permit Spain’s FA president, Luis Rubiales, to kίss her.
After Spain beat England 1-0 to win the 2023 Women’s World Cup in Australia, Rubiales was caught on camera holding Jenni Hermoso’s head and planting a kίss on her lips during the medal presentation ceremony.
Before that incident, he was seen holding his groin while standing next to the queen of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter in the VIP section of Stadium Australia.
Due to the incidents, the FA president has been faced with a series of backlash and urged to resign over the alleged misconduct even though he had openly apologized.
He was expected to announce his resignation on Friday, August 25 during an extraordinary general assembly organised by the Spanish FA.
Instead of announcing his resignation, he told the participants that he wouldn’t resign over a kίss and that he kissed Hermoso consensually.
He said: “It was a spontaneous kίss. Mutual, euphoric, and consensual. That’s the key. A consensual ‘peck’ is enough to get me out of here?”
He added, “Do you think this is so serious that I should go, after the best management in the history of Spanish football?
“Let me tell you: I’m not going to resign. I’m not going to resign. I’m not going to resign.”
Jenni Hermoso Denies Permitting Luis Rubiales to kίss her
In his reaction to claim that she permitted Rubiales to kίss her, Jenni Hermoso has released a lengthy statement to debunk the claim.
She said she was shocked when Rubiales chose to kίss her during the presentation.
She wrote, “Although it is true that for my part I do not want to interfere with the multiple legal processes in progress, I feel compelled to denounce that the words of Mr. Luis Rubiales explaining the unfortunate accident are categorically false and part of the manipulative culture that he has generated.”
She added: “I clarify that at no time did the conversation to which Mr. Luis Rubiales referred to take place and that, far from it, his kίss was consented.”
