{"id":456330,"date":"2023-08-25T16:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=456330"},"modified":"2023-08-25T16:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T12:37:05","slug":"rubiales-refuses-to-leave-amid-kiss-scandal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rubiales-refuses-to-leave-amid-kiss-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubiales refuses to leave amid kiss scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Rubiales refused to quit as RFEF president today and shared that he will &#8220;fight to the end&#8221; after 7 days of growing pressure following his kiss on the lips on Spain international Jenni Hermoso.<\/p>\n<p>The chief (46) shared a surprising move \u2013 after it was reported that he would resign today, he did the opposite. He justified his kiss and called out critics during the federation&#8217;s general assembly meeting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales is refusing to resign after forcibly kissing Jenni Hermoso following the World Cup final:<\/p>\n<p>\u25aa\ufe0f Repeatedly shouted \u2018I will not resign\u2019 during Spanish FA meeting<br \/>\n\u25aa\ufe0f Called the kiss \u2018mutual and consensual\u2019 and \u2018more a peck than a\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vFEUMHr3ZD\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/vFEUMHr3ZD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 B\/R Football (@brfootball) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brfootball\/status\/1695030145436860851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do you think what happened is so serious that I should leave after the best achievement in Spanish women&#8217;s football history?&#8221; the president claimed. &#8220;To be clear, I&#8217;m not going to leave. I&#8217;m not going to leave. I&#8217;m not going to leave.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Many people want to see me go in the past week. Someone may be looking to remove me next week. But we live in a country of laws. Is a consensual kiss can be the reason to fire me? I&#8217;m going to fight until the end. I hope the law is followed and that as there&#8217;s no valid reason to fire me, I will stay as a president of the RFEF.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Rubiales refused to quit as RFEF president today and shared that he will &#8220;fight to the end&#8221; after 7 days of growing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":456331,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21056,16913],"news_category":[14236,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[21058,18442],"acf":{"announce":"He will not resign from his post as president of the Spanish Football Federation.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":456333,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/456330\/revisions\/456333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456330"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=456330"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=456330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}