Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), celebrated Spain’s victory on the biggest stage for women’s football, the World Cup, by touching his crotch.
He only apologised because Queen Letizia and Princess Sofia of Spain were by his side. As if to say that, without them in front of him, this would have been an action worthy of the head of the national game in Spain.
And then, in a speech that will forever haunt Spanish sport, he tried to justify himself; a justification even worse than the act itself.
“I’m going to say this looking at Jorge Vilda (the Spain women’s manager),” Rubiales said. “I got very excited, to the point of losing control. At the moment we won the World Cup and your reaction was to turn to the box and dedicate it to me.
“I replied that no, it was yours. I pointed at you and said ‘you, you’. At that moment, I pointed at you and said ‘ole your balls’. Of course, I have to apologise to the Royal House.”
He touched his genitals after the greatest triumph of Spanish women’s football and dedicated it to a coach, a man, saying “ole tus huevos”. Can there be a more shameful way to disgrace the 23 female footballers who made Spain the World Cup champions?
Oh, but of course there was. Rubiales then proceeded to kiss…
