Luis Rubiales news LIVE: President’s mother goes on hunger strike as Spanish FA makes extraordinary request

• Luis Rubiales’ mother locked herself within the Divina Pastora church simply exterior Malaga and began an “indefinite, day and night” hunger strike till “justice is served” after claiming her son was the victimn of a “inhumane witch-hunt”.
• Rubiales’ cousin Vanesa Ruiz Bejar, spoke exterior the church, saying: “There’s a campaign of harassment occurring that is very unfair. Luis’ mum who is a very religious person has sought refuge in God and started a hunger strike. We are all suffering a lot because of what’s happened to Luis which doesn’t seem at all fair to us.”
• The Spanish Football Federation (Rfef) are holding an “extraordinary and urgent” assembly at 3pm (BST) to find out the following steps with reference to Rubiales however it’s unclear whether or not something will come from it after the federation backed Luis Rubiales’ defence final week.
• The Rfef have additionally contacted Uefa asking them to droop their very own organisation on account of third social gathering involvement from the Spanish authorities who’re in search of measures to take away Rubiales as president. The request would see Spanish soccer groups such as Real Madrid and Barcelona unable to characteristic in Uefa competitors.
• Uefa have rejected the request.

The assembly shouldn’t be being proven stay so there’ll be a wait to listen to if any motion is being taken towards Luis Rubiales. An inside investigation can also be beneath approach after the federation’s sexual violence protocol was activated yesterday.

In what marked the primary forceful motion towards Rubiales, the Spanish FA president was on provisionally suspended for 90 days by Fifa from “all football-related activities at national and international level” on Saturday.

He has additionally been ordered to not contact or to try to contact Jenni Hermoso or her household throughout his suspension.

The performing second deputy prime minister of Spain, and its labour minister, Yolanda Diaz, and Amanda Guiterrez, president of the ladies’s soccer union Futpro held a joint news convention this afternoon after assembly to debate the World Cup kiss scandal

Here’s what they needed to say:

Diaz says Luis Rubiales acted with “sexual aggression” and that his actions have “been spread throughout the world” however aren’t “representative of our country”,

“Spanish society is a profoundly feminist and avant-garde,” she added.

“It’s certainly very strange that the whole of Spain should be witnessing this particular scene.”

The performing second deputy prime minister of Spain, and its labour minister, Yolanda Diaz, and Amanda Guiterrez, president of the ladies’s soccer union Futpro held a joint news convention this afternoon after assembly to debate the World Cup kiss scandal

Here’s what they needed to say:

Yolanda Diaz says she “deplores the fact” that the federal government didn’t act sooner in response to Luis Rubiales kissing Jenni Hermoso.

“The government is acting very positively but I think it’s deplorable that it was Fifa that brought in the sanction and not us,” she instructed reporters at a news briefing.

She stated the federal government has offered two complaints to have Rubiales suspended describing his actions as “the worst of Spanish society.”

“Male chauvinism is structural in this country,” she added earlier than taking purpose at Rubiales and his associates for “making fun of somebody they should have been protecting”.

“Instead of protecting her they actually made her suffer,” she added, “We have seen the worst of structural machismo in the behaviour of Mr Rubiales.”

The performing second deputy prime minister of Spain, and its labour minister, Yolanda Diaz, and Amanda Guiterrez, president of the ladies’s soccer union Futpro held a joint news convention this afternoon after assembly to debate the World Cup kiss scandal

Here’s what they needed to say:

Amanda Guiterrez, stated the problem doesn’t solely lie with Luis Rubiales however “is a social problem of our country in general”

“We want to focus on the situation which women footballers are in every single day.” she added,

“We are trying not to talk about things in terms of individuals or actual ad hominem terms but also a more general systemic approach to the conditions which have to be improved and discuss the problems which we’ve had for so many years now.”

The performing second deputy prime minister of Spain, and its labour minister, Yolanda Diaz, and Amanda Guiterrez, president of the ladies’s soccer union Futpro held a joint news convention this afternoon after assembly to debate the World Cup kiss scandal

Here’s what they needed to say:

Yolanda Diaz says “progress” has been made because the “deplorable events” on the Women’s World Cup.

“We have really made progress in terms of thinking about measures in employment… particularly in regards to working conditions,” she stated.

“This office watched what happened last week and made sure there was a proper information campaign about the legal aspects involved.”

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“Although belated, the overdue motion of Fifa in suspending Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales from all football-related exercise over his unbecoming conduct on the conclusion of the Women’s World Cup remaining is totally justified and a welcome step.

“Rubiales’s declare that the kiss planted on Spain’s World Cup successful workforce’s Jenni Hermoso was “spontaneous” might maintain some water given the ladies workforce’s spectacular 2-1 win over Sweden.

“However, claiming that it was “mutual, euphoric and consensual” is past the pale.

“I am glad that he is now subject to a full investigation by Fifa, which sends an important message to all that sexism in football and even beyond is a big “NO” and needs to be abhorred in any kind – be it in any sport or within the common stroll of life internationally.”

“Women’s soccer was hovering. Women felt represented. Seen. Celebrated. Supported.

“Rubiales issued a fierce denial, blaming “false feminism” and refusing to resign. His mother, in the meantime, has reportedly locked herself inside a church on hunger strike to protest her son’s “inhumane treatment”.”

Jessica Taylor shares her ideas on the most recent growth in Luis Rubiales’ convtroversial week:

The “extraordinary and urgent” assembly of the Spanish FA is about to happen at 3pm BST however it’s unclear whether or not something will come out of it after the federation backed Luis Rubiales’ defence final week.

They might take the time to finalise Rubiales’ exit from the federation but when experiences that they’ve requested Uefa to analyze the Spanish authorities’s involvement within the Rfef are true then the Spanish FA appear extra decided to explode the foundations of Spanish soccer than holding Rubiales to account.

Should Uefa grant their request it will ban Spanish soccer from Uefa competitions which means groups from Spain wouldn’t be capable to compete within the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference Leagues amongst others.

The mother of Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales is on hunger strike over the “inhuman” therapy of her son, based on experiences in Spain.

Rubiales was provisionally suspended by FIFA on Saturday pending an investigation into his conduct on the Women’s World Cup remaining in Sydney on August 20.

The 46-year-old grabbed his crotch within the stadium’s VIP space in celebration of Spain’s win over England, when he was stood metres away from Spain’s Queen Letizia and her teenage daughter.