The newspaper ‘El Mundo’ has published the internal messages of the RFEF during the days prior to the resignation of the former president
From them it is clear that it was Rubiales himself who devised the strategy of confrontation and discredit towards Hermoso.
Luis Rubiales was forced to resign as president of the RFEF on September 10, convicted for the non-consensual kiss of Jennifer Hermoso in the celebration of world conquered by the Spanish team and the subsequent management of the resulting crisis, which is in court due to the alleged pressure that the footballer and her closest circle would have received to justify it.
While waiting for the courts to issue a ruling, what is clear is that Rubiales tried to cling to power until the last moment and by all means. A certainty that was ratified this Monday by the information published by the newspaper ‘El Mundo’, which had access to the internal messages exchanged by the members of the team of the former president of the RFEF during the days prior to his forced departure.
The Federation’s strategy was to publish on its official website a very harsh text in which Hermoso was accused of “lying” and “having been abducted by the FutPro union.” After an internal rebellion, the writing would be deleted hours later. However, the damage had already been done and caused division among the figures closest to Rubiales. Some chose to distance themselves from the president.
The decision to make this statement public came on August 26, one day after the press conference in which Rubiales assured that he was not planning to resign. A speech that surprised practically all those present, because in a meeting held on the night of the 24th, some of his collaborators and even his father advised him to resign thinking about his future career.
Far from doing so, Rubiales assumed the well-known strategy of confrontation. “Andreu, please. We have to stop this,” said Pablo García Cuervo, communications director of the RFEF, to the then general secretary and Rubiales’ right-hand man, Andreu Camps. “Stop what?” He responded, before assuring that the statement published on the RFEF website was “an order from the president.”