Royal Spanish Football Federation officials can stick their heads in the sand by defending Luis Rubiales but that will not happen without consequence
with legal action to insisting that it is an “obligation” for all federated players to participate in national team duty should they be called on, it is a lesson in how, to coin a phrase, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Staggeringly, Rubiales has homed in on the quote attributed to Hermoso in the Futpro statement which says: “In no case did I seek to raise the president.” The RFEF then, at the base of its statement, proceeds to dissect four sequential photographs which appear to show Rubiales being lifted by Hermoso. Except they tell us nothing, nothing of the player’s intent, nothing of whether she lifted, or he leapt. It is a red herring, an irrelevance.
Lift or no lift, embrace or no embrace, Rubiales and the RFEF cannot undo what we all saw and that is the president grabbing the face of Hermoso and planting a kiss on her lips.
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