The general secretary of the PSOE and acting president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has praised the “exemplary reaction” of the players of the Spanish Women’s Soccer Team to the “embarrassing attitudes and speeches” of the suspended president of the Royal Spanish Soccer Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, and has made it clear that he cannot continue leading the federation.
“One cannot aspire to represent Spain and make Spain feel bad with attitudes and speeches that embarrass us and that do not represent us,” Sánchez said this Saturday in Malaga at a PSOE event, referring to the suspended president of the RFEF , of which he has not pronounced his name.
The President of the Government stressed that “the Spain brand is the spectacular reaction of Spanish society that has said together with them ‘it’s over’, and that it’s over, with all the consequences for all the leaders who have been involved in these unfortunate events.”
“Our players have won twice: once on the field and then giving the world a lesson in equality between men and women”, praised Sánchez, who has joined the slogan ‘It’s over’ that athletes and other sectors have promoted to denounce attitudes like those of Rubiales with the kiss without consent to the player Jenni Hermoso after the final of the Women’s World Cup.
Sánchez has thus claimed the “giant and unstoppable wave” of feminism promoted by women who “have decided never again to submit to men, their boyfriends, their husbands, their bosses and presidents of sports federations”.
Given this, she stressed that women have “millions of men committed to achieving real and effective equality between men and women”, an area in which she has recognized that “there are many things left to do” as, in her opinion, they have demonstrated the “absolutely regrettable” events related to Rubiales.
In addition, the acting President of the Government has assured that he believes that this controversy has not harmed the image of Spain abroad. “Really, the Spain brand is the exemplary reaction of the players of the Spanish Soccer Team and the spectacular reaction of Spanish society that has said together with them ‘it’s over'”, he defended, to stress that it’s over.” with all the consequences” for “all the leaders who have been involved in these unfortunate events”.
