In the trial of former Spanish football chairman Luis Rubiales, football star Jennifer Hermoso says Rubiales tried to silence her after the unwelcome kiss after the World Cup final.
– I told him that “you know what you have done” and that he would go there, she says.
It was during the celebration of Spain’s World Cup gold that Luis Rubiales grabbed Jennifer Hermosos head and kissed her on her mouth.
According to Rubiales, she had given her consent, but Hermoso does not consider it. Rubiales risks 2.5 years in prison for sexual abuse and unlawful coercion.
During the first day of the trial, which the Spanish newspaper AS reports directly, Hermoso says she did not have a chance to pull away when Rubiales pressed against her.
He grabbed my ears and kissed me. I neither heard nor understood that he asked if he could kiss me, Hermoso answers the prosecutor’s question.
It happened in a thousand seconds, I couldn’t react. I just felt it was completely wrong, my boss kissed me. It should not happen, it was disrespectful during one of the happiest days of my life.
Was pressed
Afterwards, Rubiales tried on several occasions and in several ways put pressure on Hermoso and her family, so he would not have problems with the kiss. Among other things, the football chairman wanted him and the player to do a video together.
He said his daughters were feeling bad, but I said “I’m sorry but I will not do any video. You know what you have done and it wasn’t right. You will go there,” says Hermoso.
Rubiales let the league captain Jorge wild talk to Hermosos brother, during the flight home to Australia, so that he would try to persuade Jennifer Hermoso to put on the video. In the interview, Hermoso says that Wild talked to the brother about compensation if she lined up.
Understood the consequences
The prosecutor asks Hermoso if she was aware of the consequences of saying Rubiales.
Yes, that I would not be allowed to play in the national team and I was also not called to the first collection after the World Cup.
The 34-year-old says she could not move freely in Spain for the scandal.
My life changed. I got death threats, messages of all kinds. I had to leave Madrid. My life has been put on a break until today. I have not been able to have a free life, says Hermoso.
Thank you good God for playing in Mexico.
Hermoso has been playing in Mexico since 2022, for Pachua and now Tigres Uanl.