The former Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, Kiss unsolicited, killed Jenni Hermoso’s joy to win the Women’s World Cup in 2023 and she was submerged, crying and exhausted in the following hours and days, Three of his teammates said Thursday.
The winner of Ballon d’Or 2021 and 2022, Alexia Putellas, the skipper of Barcelona Irene Paredes and the defender of Arsenal Laia Codina testified during the fourth session of a trial on a kiss which sparked a national reaction against the Sexism in sport.
Rubials, 47, is accused of sexual assault, then tried to force Hermoso – with the help of three other former officials of the Football Federation – saying publicly that kiss on the lips during the award ceremony of the 2023 World Cup in Australia had been consensual.
PARDES said that she was the first of the team to realize that it was a very serious matter and not something to joke when driving the bus for Sydney airport after the final.
She also recalled how, in the locker room, Hermoso asked her teammates what they thought of the incident.
“Jenni was worried, she was upset. I saw her crying by telling us that, because it was a problem that weighed on her and what she wanted was to celebrate the triumph that we had just achieved “Said Paredes.
Barcelona player, Putellas, said that Hermoso was shocked at the start, but on the flight back to Spain and during a celebration trip to Ibiza Island, she got angry, exceeded and cried.
“On the plane, she was already very overwhelmed and told us that they would not leave her alone, they would not stop,” she said.
Putellas said that she had seen Hermoso cry with exhausting on the plane and in Ibiza and that Hermoso had even wondered if she were to leave the trip.
Justice José Manuel Fernández Prieto said that if the trial continued according to the calendar, Rubials and the other three defendants will take the position on February 11 and that the procedure could end on February 12.
