The newspaper ‘Marca’ has had access to the conversations between Jennifer Hermoso and Ruben Riveramarketing director of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, during the player’s trip to Ibiza after winning the World Championship in Australia.
In statements by the Spanish player to the Prosecutor’s Office, as well as her friend Ana Ecubethe marketing director of the RFEF would have pressured and coerced them so that Jennifer would testify in favor of Luis Rubiales to ‘soften’ the situation.
Thus, Rivera assured before the National Court that his conversations with Jennifer Hermoso during the 48 hours that the trip to Ibiza lasted They were strictly professional. and that at no time did he pressure the player as she had claimed in her statement.
To prove his testimony, the marketing director of the RFEF presented to the Prosecutor’s Office the screenshots with the WhatsApp messages exchanged with Jennifer Hermoso during those days in which no reference to Luis Rubiales appears.
The messages in Ibiza
Hermoso denounced that the trip, which took place between August 22 and 24, became a scene of pressure and coercion. According to the player’s statement to the Prosecutor’s Office, Rubén Rivera gave her a call from Miguel García, director of the Federation’s Integrity Committee, who “told me that I have to do a Zoom immediately to tell the truth, what has happened, that “The kiss was stupid and that’s it.”
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“I ask her if I am obliged, and she tells me ‘yes, we have done it and we will do it with other people. This is in the Federation’s protocol. (…) Rubén was still by my side, I tell him that’s it, I’ll send it to him and Rubén takes the phone and tells me he’ll charge it for me. After 5 minutes he comes back and asks me if he can give me the phone now. I tell him to leave me alone, I had just arrived in Ibiza, with two days without sleep. I told him to put the phone down“.
Rivera defends, however, that the messages exchanged with Jennifer Hermoso were in a casual tone. and presented screenshots in which the player’s phrases are read such as: “Make magic!” (to ask that her friend Ana Ecube could participate in the trip) or “Rubén, can you tell your wife that I don’t have a bikini. She asked me and I told her that she did have one, haha.”