MADRID, Aug. 21 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The acting government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, has asked the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, for a “reflection” on the kiss to the player Jenni Hermoso and has assured that it is “very important that each one assumes his responsibility” at a time when the footballers of the Spanish team “are breaking” the glass ceilings in favor of equality.
In an interview on TVE from Madrid Río, to where the minister has traveled to experience the celebration of the soccer players for the victory in the Women’s World Cup, Rodríguez has insisted on “being very careful” with public statements, claiming Rubiales make a “reflection” after the controversial kiss and the subsequent apologies.
In the words of the spokeswoman, “none of these behaviors” should move away from the “majority sense of Spanish society”, which “advances in equality”. “And, above all, that our behaviors are not the opposite of what this victory represents”, she has affirmed, while she has defended speaking of the players and not of the RFEF president at this time.
Rodríguez has indicated that he has come to receive the soccer players because “the reception has to be in style”. “They are very big, they have made us vibrate, they have made Spain proud of them today and the Government must be accompanying that joy of the country for some champions who have broken glass ceilings”, he indicated.
Lastly, the minister pointed out that victory in the women’s World Cup is “the image for many girls who today don the Spanish flag.” “It is the flag of equality, of progress, of the triumph of the women’s sport of our team”, she has settled.
