It was all a party. A historic party for Spanish women's football. The completion of the World Cup final focused on the path of all the players through the altar located in the center of Stadium Australia in Sydney when the cameras stopped on Jenni Hermoso, star of the national team, and Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Federation soccer. They hugged, laughed and the manager, in a gesture that is already an unpleasant part of the history of Spanish women's football, grabbed her head and gave the footballer a kiss on the mouth.

The image, you already know, went around the world, crossed borders and the sporting field itself, served as a political and social reflection and became an emblem of the definitive revolution of the Spanish team, causing a schism in the Soccer City of Las Rozas. , where resignations and controversies occurred during the following days.

The night in Australia was simply surreal. Rubiales, after having celebrated the victory in the box by holding his private parts next to Queen Letizia and going down to the grass to kiss the entire delegation, entered Cadena Cope by phone and called “assholes” and “assholes.” » to those who were criticizing him for the kiss on Hermoso.

Hours later, taking advantage of the stopover in Doha on the trip between Sydney and Madrid and convinced by his work team of the need for an apology, he apologized in his own way.. But not before trying to get Jenni to come out by his side, without success.. “It was a moment of maximum effusiveness, without bad faith,” he admitted, 24 hours after the controversy. From Spain, members of the Government such as Yolanda Díaz were already asking for his resignation, accusing him of having “harassed and attacked a woman.”. Rubiales was on the precipice and had not realized it, because what happened on that plane back to Spain was the beginning of his end.

From the Sydney locker room and given the level of criticism, the Federation sent EFE written statements from Hermoso in which he downplayed the matter and said that it had been “a spontaneous mutual gesture.”. “The president and I have a great relationship,” said the player. That text and the “pressure” to which some members of the Spanish expedition subjected Hermoso, starting with the coach Jorge Vilda himself, to appear in the apology video with Rubiales made headlines in the media.

From there, a guerrilla war that the Government also made its own: “Their apologies are neither sufficient nor adequate.”. “It is an unacceptable gesture,” said Pedro Sánchez, digging the leader's federative grave a little deeper.. Rubiales, however, did not hide and went on the attack. “I'm not going to resign, I'm not going to resign, I'm not going to resign!” he shouted at the Extraordinary Assembly of the Federation, convened with the idea that he would resign, as he and his team took it upon themselves to leak to the press. in the hours prior to its celebration.

Surrealism in the Assembly

This Assembly was the icing on the cake to surrealism. You will remember those applauses from Jorge Vilda and Luis de la Fuente, which ended with the first dismissed and the second in question, and the “social murder” that Rubiales claimed as a victim, insisting that the kiss was “consensual.”. “We hugged, he lifted me up in his arms, brought me close to his body and I told him 'forget about the penalty'. He replied 'you're a crack', and I said 'a little bitch?'. And she said 'okay.' “He said goodbye with a last slap on the side and left laughing,” he said.

This narration of the events, the attacks on Hermoso and the accusations of “false feminism” caused the soccer players to resign from the national team, an action that, like the kiss, went around the world and made Rubiales fall before FIFA.. The highest organization of world football disqualified him and prohibited him from approaching Hermoso. «I felt vulnerable and victim of aggression. “I was simply not respected,” the player repeated again in a statement.

Four months later, Rubiales is disqualified by FIFA for acting “aggressively and totally inappropriately” and has been replaced in office by Pedro Rocha, who we will see if he runs for election next year. In addition, he is also disqualified for three years by the Sports Administrative Court. All while the case is also developing through criminal proceedings, with the National Court Prosecutor's Office accumulating statements from witnesses to determine whether or not to punish the already former president of the Federation.