Not once but five times in a row, Luis Rubiales has made his decision clear by saying: "I'm not going to resign!" "Is a spoiled spike to get me out of here?", He has asked himself in the extraordinary assembly of the RFEF. "There are no reasons," he says. And he announces that he "will fight to the end". Below we review his main statements about the controversy that caused his performance in the final of the Women's Soccer World Cup:
- “It was spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consented. That this is the key to all the criticism, to the entire process, that has been set up in this country, that it was done without consent. No. he was spoiled”.
- “Whoever sees the video will understand that before 80,000 people at the time, before millions of people on television, before all the people who were there, including part of my family, my daughters. The desire that I could have there was the same that I could have kissing one of my daughters. No more no less. Therefore there is no desire and there is no position of dominance”.
- "The moment Jenni appeared, she lifted me off the floor. We almost fell. And when she left me on the floor we hugged. She was the one who raised her in her arms. and brought her body closer to me. We hugged and I told her: 'Forget the penalty, you've been fantastic, we wouldn't have won the World Cup without you'. She replied: 'You're a crack'. And I said: 'A little bit?' And she said: 'Okay '. It was the little bit, during this whole process with several slaps on my side and saying goodbye with a last slap and leaving laughing. That's the sequence."
- "I was very, very excited, to the point of losing control and holding my hands there at the moment when, as soon as you won the World Cup, your first reaction [addressing Vilda] was to turn to the box and dedicate it to me (...) And at that moment I made you that 'ole your balls' sign, excuse me. (...) (...) The emotion was great and everything we had been through, too; we had suffered a lot. I don't justify myself. Sorry".
- "There are many people who, although silenced, are supporting me, I would say more than against it."
- “Here we are not trying to do justice. A social murder is being carried out. They are trying to kill me."
- To Jorge Vilda. "At another level, much smaller, but they wanted to do to you what they are doing to me."
- “As a Spaniard, I think we have to reflect on where we are going. If you buy a ticket in the lottery jointly with your neighbor and win 200 million euros, it is most probable that when you meet right after the draw, you will do something outrageous, or poke yourself or hold your arms or whatever. to be. And there is no sexual content there. And being world champion, being world champions, is the greatest thing in football. That we have fought a lot, also the leaders".
- “False feminism does not seek justice, it does not seek the truth, it does not care about people. I repeat it: they are preparing an execution to put on a medal, and say that they are advancing. But we're not advancing like this, it's quite the opposite."
- "Ms. Yolanda Díaz, Ms. Montero, Ms. Belarra or Mr. Echenique have referred to this action [the kiss] with the words 'vejar', 'sexual violence', 'without consent' —that this is the key — or 'assault'... By God! What will women think who have really been sexually assaulted! What will those who have really been forced and attacked think!”
- "There were also men there, Jorge. They are world champions, the 23 players, the most, but... aren't you a champion? Isn't Carlos, the goalkeeper coach, a champion? Or you, 'Rubi'? There were men and women, it was a plural group".
- "The masculine plural in Spain includes men and women. Therefore, let's not get complex and continue using champions to talk about men and women."
- "I want to say looking at my three daughters who are there that today they have to learn a lesson: equality is not differentiating, when there is an opinion, between what the man says or what the woman says, no. You have to differentiate between the truth and the lie. And I am telling the truth here today. Daughters, learn it, it is a life lesson".
- "[To her daughters] You are real feminists, and not the fake feminists out there"
- "The press, or a large part of the press - there are some exceptions - will continue to kill me, but I will continue to tell the truth. They can continue with this siege campaign. Man, it is not nice, but deep down I don't care from my heart. And it's not a matter of arrogance or arrogance, it's a matter of humility."
“There have been assembly members who have received a lot of pressure. (...) I have received messages from members of this assembly telling me 'Don't resign!' or 'Be strong!', and then they released a press release in which they said that 'man... that's not right... that I don't know what...'. That is happening in our country, and that is conditioning people”
"Is there freedom of the press in this country? When a certain press serves certain spurious interests, whether economic or other, part of the freedom of the press is lost"
- “For five years they have been after me with everything. By land, sea and air".
- "I said it here when I took office: some powerful people are going to be annoyed that I am here because I am going to make decent football out of modest football, which is what I am doing."
- "The best of football is here."
“I have to apologize for the context in which it occurred. [the kiss]. I'm not out of the world and I know I was wrong about that too... but do you think that's enough to suffer the hunt I'm suffering? Do you honestly believe it? Is it serious enough for me to leave when I have done the best management in Spanish football?"
