Luis Rubiales appeared before the assembly of the Spanish Football Federation last Friday and gave explanations about what happened. “It was a macho textbook discourse,” says Beatriz Gimeno, a feminist researcher. Due to the errors in the manual that he committed, he does not seem to be aware of being outside the new moral order. As acting minister Irene Montero pointed out, “feminism is changing everything” and there are people who don’t realize it. “The speech is the perfect argument for machirulismo, for people hurt by feminism and, she would add, for the extreme right.”
“I am not out of the world and I know that I was wrong, but do you think that this is to suffer the hunt that I am suffering, so that they ask for my resignation? Do you honestly believe it? Is it so serious that I leave having done the best management in the history of Spanish football? “When I arrived there were clubs that did not receive anything and now they are receiving 100,000 euros.” “Is a spoiled peak to get me out of here?” “A social murder is taking place.” “I do not deserve this hunt that I have been suffering for five years.”
“The desire that I could have in that kiss was the same that I could have when giving it to one of my daughters. There was no desire or position of dominance. It was a spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consented kiss. And she explained: “Jenni took me by the hips, or by her legs, she lifted me off the ground, she lifted me up and brought me closer to her body. And leaving me on the ground, we hugged. I told him ‘forget the penalty, without you we wouldn’t have won this World Cup’. She answered me: “you are a crack”. And I answered her ‘a little bit?’ and she said ‘okay’. It was a great moment and she left laughing ”. “Then you press, the player’s silence and a statement that I don’t quite understand.”
He said up to four times “false feminism”. “They don’t care about people. Trying to kill a man for this situation…” He mentioned Yolanda Díaz, Irene Montero, Pablo Echenique for accusing him of assault. “What do you mean by sexual violence? What will the women who have been sexually assaulted think?”, equating a rape with a non-consensual act on a woman and that they have different criminal punishments.
The gesture of touching the genitals after scoring the goal Olga Carmona explains it by addressing the coach Jorge Vilda. “They wanted to do the same to you as to me, to try to make a false speech true. We have suffered and swallowed a lot. That’s why I was so excited that I lost control when you turned to the box to dedicate it to me. And that’s why I wanted to say ‘Olé tus huevos’”. “World Champions. The masculine plural includes women. Let’s not get complex and keep talking about champions, because there are also men among champions. Aren’t we men champions?
The presence of the fathers and daughters was not justified since it was a work meeting, but it served to reinforce his image as a father. “My daughters have to learn a life lesson. Equality is differentiating between truth and lies, but false feminism doesn’t care about the truth. I speak the truth”.
“My country hurts me.” “As Spaniards, I think we have to reflect. We have to improve a lot in freedoms. There are people who have received a lot of pressure. From the media, from political parties. They called me and told me to be strong and not resign, but then they made a press release because they are in an association that has received pressure saying that it is not right “
Rubiales announced the renewal for four more years of the contract of the women’s coach, Jorge Vilda, and raised his salary. He will earn not the “160,000 you earn” but “half a million a year, because you deserve it.”
