It all started and finished with a World Cup as the elation of Spain’s success exposed Luis Rubiales and the fighter could not keep fighting
he way Luis Rubiales told the story, it was a warning. Designed to illustrate how determined he is,he is. He revealed that when he was barely a month old his sister broke his legs. She fell on top of him, causing six or seven fractures on each side, and the doctor told his parents that their son could be anything except a footballer. But that was exactly what he had become and now he was the president of the Spanish football federation so, no, he wasn’t going to be beaten this easily.
There were successes, income increasing and budgets expanding, including for women’s football, yet also instability. There was the near-collapse of Spain’s men’s third tier, and the endless, tawdry, damaging conflict with the league – even if he insisted it was not a conflict but an attack. Until now. That unsolicited kiss and Rubiales’s horrendous handling of it became the catalyst for change, achieving something that other people and other moments did not. “I won’t resign,” he had shouted five times
“It’s over,” read the hashtag that accompanied the statement from 81 female players, including all 23 who had won the World Cup, and now it is.. His presidency is anyway, and that is a start; a meaningful shift will require more change. It could have happened sooner. These have been damaging, if ultimately cathartic days, sometimes bordering on the surreal.
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