The historic victory of the Spanish Women’s Soccer Team in the World Cup in Australia and New Zealand this past Sunday has become a milestone for women’s soccer. More than twenty thousand people came this past Monday to the esplanade of Puente del Rey, in Madrid, to celebrate with the world champions the triumph of the team’s first star.
But the historic day has been marred by the inappropriate behavior of the president of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, during the awards ceremony in the final. The kiss without consent Luis Rubiales to Jennifer Hermoso has given a lot of talk and has become one of the main topics of today.
Hours later, the Royal Spanish Football Federation shared a video on its social networks in which Luis Rubiales apologized. A few words that, beyond calming the atmosphere, set social networks on fire even more. ”I have to apologize. Surely I was wrong, I have to admit. It was without bad faith at a time of maximum effusiveness. Here it was not understood because we saw it as natural, but outside there was a stir,” he said.
The case has been one of the main topics to be discussed in numerous television spaces such as Ya es mediodía, where the unfortunate comment of the collaborator Marta López has unleashed controversy on social networks.
“I think that she has gone out of her way, it has not been correct, but I have not seen the girl at any time remove herself, I have not seen the girl manifest at any time saying that she has felt attacked. If that were the case, I would support it, but if not, it seems to me that it has been something out of context, that it has not been correct, but nothing more. People are supporting the cause of women in the wrong way. They are taking advantage of all that to say that we feel that way. Me, as a woman, if someone is going to give me a kiss, I take it off. And then, there I would support her”, declared the collaborator in the program.
Marta López’s speech has not gone unnoticed on networks and many users have wanted to show their complete disagreement with the words of the collaborator. “The focus on the victim, typical of deniers of gender violence,” “It’s shameful,” “I just hallucinated,” were some of the comments.
