madrid. since then, never far away from controversy madrid. since then, never far away from controversy after madrid. since then, never far away from controversy after speaking i madrid. since then, never far away i from controversy after speaking with gerard pique overplaying the spanish super cup in saudi arabia. then being accused of claiming rent expenses from the federation and compromising government officials. he has denied all allegations. most recently, he has drawn criticism from continuing to back the women s national team coachjorge vilda. u has been a polarising picture despite success on the pitch with player saying his methods were damaging the mental health but luis rubiales has stood by his colleague. translation: rubiales has stood by his colleague. translation: we ve been through a lot over the past translation: we ve been through a lot over the past year. translation: we ve been through a lot over the past year. on translation: we ve been through a lot ov
a huge backlash against mr rubiales government ministers. senior figures within the sporting world and other public figures have all come out criticising mr rubiales. in many cases calling on him to step down. however, he has refused to do that. he says that the kiss was consensual. he did nothing wrong and he has promised that he intends to stay on as federation president. however, there is pressure on him from the players themselves in the national team. they have said that they will not represent their country until mr rubiales is removed from office. and this latest suspension by fifa, of course, just puts more pressure on the federation president and makes this more of an international incident for spain, more of a worry on an international level. let s get the latest now, crossing
hermoso has said that they are not backing luis rubiales any more. it is interesting to see who the people are involved in this statement. there is not the name of the manager, ofjorge vilda, on the site of luis rubiales, but another coach, the men s coach, is starting to become a bit critical with him, even though it is interesting to say this because yesterday he was in the press conference where luis rubiales was defending himself and he was clapping the words of luis rubiales so lots of changes, lots of going on in spain, also in media a very hot topic, wildly debated now in the country and even though luis rubiales has said he has no plans to resign and we will actually defend himself and his views, many media are considering this not being a
to our newsroom. our reporter sergi forcada is in the newsroom tell us more about rubiales response to fifa s provisional suspension. yes, claims and counter claims, and plenty of statements, this is the latest one by the spanish football federation which includes the view after luis rubiales was provisionally suspended and he said we will fight the accusations and legally defend himself in the competent bodies that he trusts from fifa saying it will give him the opportunity to start defending himself in what he says in order to prevail and make sure the truth prevails and make sure he is seen as someone who did not do anything wrong, that he is complete the innocent and that innocence is proven. this is something that was said in the past few days that the kiss was consensual even though jenni hermoso who we ve heard
winning the world cup and then the football chief in spain luis rubiales kissing a spain player and the accusation being that it was done without consent. a couple of developments in the last couple of hours. the first is that several members of the coaching staff have resigned, a statement from 11 members of the coaching staff saying that the statement are luis rubiales offered a story that does not reflect in any way what was felt by jenni hermoso who felt she was the victim of aggression. that development coming in the last hour orso development coming in the last hour or so and the second main development is that luis rubiales himself saying we will defend himself saying we will defend himself after fifa have provisionally suspended him as president of spain s football