Ex-national player Dietmar Hamann has criticized the Spanish football association boss Luis Rubiales harshly.
“This man has no place in football,” said the 50-year-old “Sky” expert. On Saturday, world governing body FIFA provisionally banned Rubiales for 90 days after refusing to resign at the association’s extraordinary general assembly last Friday.
Rubiales triggered the scandal with his approach and his kiss on the lips of world champion Jennifer Hermoso at the World Cup final award ceremony. Hamann: “That was his action. It didn’t contribute anything. If you do it with a work colleague or if you do it on the open street, then you’ll get a criminal complaint and you’ll have a real problem. Why should that matter to the Spanish President? be different?”
Some people from the sport would have reported and tried “to play it down. When I hear these statements, I can only shake my head because only the woman decides: She said that was not wanted,” emphasized Hamann . Among other things, ex-Bayern-Munich boss Karl-Heinz Rummenigge had spoken up and tried to downplay what had happened.
Hamann can not only imagine a women’s boycott, which the world champions announced on Friday if Rubiales does not resign from his post: “I would like the Spanish national team to say, including the men’s, that we won’t play until then.” The Spanish men’s national coach Luis de la Fuente and women’s world champion coach Jorge Vilda also distanced themselves from Rubiales on Saturday.