Miquel Iceta warns that if the RFEF does not take action against Rubiales, the CSD will
The Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, warned this Wednesday that if the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) does not take action for the kiss on the mouth that its president, Luis Rubiales, gave to the player of the women’s team Jenni Beautiful after the World Cup final, the Higher Sports Council (CSD) will do it.
“They have to make decisions, if the Federation does not make them, the CSD will,” the minister told EFE from India, where he is this week to attend the G20 culture ministerial meeting.
Iceta’s notice comes one day after the RFEF announced the urgent call, this Friday, for an Extraordinary General Assembly to deal with this matter.
An assembly on which the minister preferred not to anticipate events, although he stressed that the CSD will activate “all the mechanisms based on complaints already presented, probably in the first days of next week.”
“We have a procedure that raises complaints (…) and from there the files are substantiated,” he explained, explaining that if the Federation does not comply with its duty, they will be the ones who consider transferring to the Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) the case.
In this sense, the minister highlighted the role of the new Sports Law, which “intends to protect these rights and oblige all organizations, whether clubs, federations or national leagues, to take responsibility for ensuring” them.
Asked if they have contacted Hermoso, Iceta insisted that they would listen to his opinion on the incident, although he again placed the focus on the Federation by insisting on his responsibility to give an answer “that Spanish society claims for an unacceptable fact ” and that tarnished the moment in which the women’s team touched “the sky”.
Rubiales’ kiss to Hermoso occurred last Sunday during the medal ceremony for the Spanish women’s soccer team, moments after they were proclaimed champions after beating England in the World Cup final held in Australia and New Zealand thanks to to a goal scored by Olga Carmona.