Spain’s deputy prime minister has strongly condemned the behaviour of FA president Luis Rubiales after he was accused of grabbing and kissed Women’s World Cup player Jenni Hermoso on the lips.
Yolanda Diaz said on Monday 28 August that male chauvinism was “systemic” in Spain and had been shown in its worst form when Mr Rubiales on Friday refused to resign as president of Spain's soccer federation.
"They clapped and humiliated and made fun of a person they had the obligation to protect under the sports law and far from doing that, they inflicted more damage, more pain, more vexation”, Diaz told reporters following a meeting with leaders of the FUTPRO players’ union representing Hermoso.
Yolanda Diaz said on Monday 28 August that male chauvinism was “systemic” in Spain and had been shown in its worst form when Mr Rubiales on Friday refused to resign as president of Spain's soccer federation.
"They clapped and humiliated and made fun of a person they had the obligation to protect under the sports law and far from doing that, they inflicted more damage, more pain, more vexation”, Diaz told reporters following a meeting with leaders of the FUTPRO players’ union representing Hermoso.
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00:00 fight against the reproduction of stereotypes, which evidently, as I said this morning and we have been pointing out,
00:07 machismo is structural in each and every one of the sports organs of our country.
00:12 The conduct that Mr. Rubiales had when we were happy to win, is that he feels totally impunity.
00:23 Last Friday, I think we have seen the worst of Spanish society, as Mr. Rubiales and many men,
00:32 corrupt people, applauded him, they joked and made fun of a person they had the obligation to protect
00:41 by the mandate of Article 29 of the Law of Sport, by the spirit of the Law of Sport, and far from protecting her,
00:48 what they have done is to cause her even more damage, more pain, more aging and still put her in a higher risk position.
00:57 Keep in mind that Article 29 of the Law of Sport...