It’s certainly odd that the 23 players in the Women’s team, La Roja, that won the football World Cup in Sydney, beating the English Lionesses in the finals, shouldn’t be the protagonists of this story, but rather it’s the fellow who kissed the unwilling Jennifer Hermoso during the presentation of the gold trophy who has taken over the entire news networks, becoming inter alia the turd in the punch-bowl of women’s pride.
This week, even Donald Trump’s angry mug-shot was relegated to the inside pages.
We have found a balance in the classroom; a parity in politics; harmony in the workplace and even equality in the army; but the sports-ground remains the preserve of the alpha male: the Spanish macho.
The 2010 world champion Iker Casillas said, “We should have spent these five days talking about our girls! To be proud of winning a title we didn’t have in women’s football, but, no…”
The losing English team meanwhile put out a message on Saturday, describing the Real Federación Española de Fútbol as ‘a sexist and patriarchal organisation’. Luis Rubiales is a football chauvinist, but he’s certainly not alone.
With this humiliation doled out (once again) to half of the Spanish population. Rubiales and his mates show that parity and respect for women in sports is as far away as ever.
So, we shall leave him and his 700,000€ annual income (plus his 3,000€ monthly housing support from the RFEF) for now.
He doesn’t really need anything more to be said about him here.
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