Luis Rubiales: I will not resign! RFEF chief in tirade

Luis Rubiales has appeared at the extraordinary assembly of the Spanish Football Federation that was urgently convened for this Friday with the intention of gathering the support of Spanish soccer. The president saw how the assembly members turned their backs on him with a large absence of members, with only 75 of the 140 assembly members showing up, which allowed the assembly to be constituted by exceeding the 70 votes needed. 

Finally, the agenda was changed and the assembly was limited to an introductory speech by Andreu Camps, secretary general of the Federation, and then Luis Rubiales took the floor, after which the assembly was concluded. Rubiales addressed those present with a speech in which he highlighted the following: 

SORRY FOR BALLS GRAB

"This is the body that elected me and it is before which I must give all the explanations. I want to thank all the messages of support I have received, also to the people who are not from soccer. I would say that there are more people supporting me than against me. I want to apologize for an event that happened in the box when, in a moment of euphoria, I grabbed that part of my body that you have already seen. And I am going to explain it looking at Jorge Vilda. We have been through a lot Jorge and they wanted to do to you what they are doing to me now. Jorge, we have been through a lot and we have swallowed a lot, but I got so excited that I lost control. 

 As soon as you won, your first reaction was to turn to the box and dedicate it to me. And at that moment I gave you those signs. Of course I have to apologize to the Queen, the Infanta and the Royal House. My sincerest apologies. The emotion was great because we have suffered a lot".

HERMOSO KISS DEFENSE 

"The second issue is the peak, the kiss, More a peak than a kiss. Whoever watches the video will see that before millions of people, before all the people who were there, among them my daughters, the desire that I could have before the kiss is the same that I could have when giving a kiss to one of my daughters. There is no desire or dominance. It is paying obeisance to the false feminism that is a great scourge of this country. It was a spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consensual kiss. This player missed a penalty, I have a great relationship with her and with the whole team. And we had very affectionate moments in this expedition and at the moment when Jenni appeared, she lifted me off the ground, we almost fell. When she put me on the ground we hugged and she pulled me close to her body. We hugged and I told her: 'Forget about the penalty'. He said, 'You're a cracker. Then I said: 'A 'piquito'?' and she said: 'OK. Then came the player's silence and that statement that I didn't understand. Here is being executed a social murder, to me. Being a world champion is the greatest thing in soccer and we have fought hard for that. For five years they have been going after me with everything by land, sea and air. 

Dozens of lawsuits, complaints in all the courts. It is always the same, he and his puppets. But it bothers him that I am here. I want to say, looking at my daughters, that today they have to learn a lesson of equality: you have to differentiate between truth and lies. Mrs. Yolanda Díaz, Mrs. Montero, Mrs. Belarra, Mr. Echenique, have referred to this with words like vexing, without consent, assault.... What would a woman who has been sexually assaulted think? To these people who are trying to publicly assassinate me I say that I will defend myself in court. And in the shelter of these people the puppets of the usual. Spanish soccer knows perfectly well who is who. The 23 women are champions, but men like Jorge Vilda or the members of the staff are also champions. Let's not be self-conscious and let's use the word "champions" to qualify everyone. The yellowish false feminism, plus Tebas and the usual have squeezed a lot. The press, a large part, that will continue to kill me and I do not care because I know what the truth is. It is not a question of arrogance or arrogance, it is humility. I am willing to be vilified for defending the truth. The best of soccer is you who have allowed me to be president of soccer these five years. In our country we need to continue improving in salaries, health, housing, but we have to improve a lot in freedoms. There is a situation of total lack of freedom. There are members who have received pressures from media and political parties.

I WILL NOT RESIGN

"The time has come to say something. Is it so serious that I have to leave? Is it so serious that I have to leave? And resign? Well, I am not going to resign. I am not going to resign. Our management has been exemplary in economic and sporting terms. We have won the Women's World Cup being an example for the whole world. We have won the Nations League, which is the most difficult competition in the world to win. The day we won the final of the Women's World Cup was the most exciting day of my life and of these five years. That's why I want to make an announcement here. I have activated the mechanisms with the secretary for Jorge Vilda to continue working with us for the next four years for half a million euros.

"I'm going to keep fighting as I've been taught, despite everything. I am not leaving. I am a happy and fulfilled man. I've been working for a long time, without vacations. Obviously, I have to rest. I will go to rest for a few days with my family and I hope to be able to disconnect. I hope that justice will continue to be done and I will be in Motril, where I will play tomorrow with my teammates. Here is the truth, without any yellowish statements, here is the truth of what has happened. These are my explanations".