Spain manager Tome refutes ‘penalizing’ Hermoso after required kiss

Spain supervisor Montse Tome on Monday refuted “punishing” Jenni Hermoso by dropping her after ex-football federation principal Luis Rubiales by force kissed her at the 2023 Women’s World Cup last.

Rubiales will certainly indicate on Tuesday in a test deemed an instance versus manly society and sexism in sporting activity after the kiss in Australia stimulated a globally detraction.

Prosecutors are looking for 2 and a fifty percent years behind bars for Rubiales, one year for sexual offense for the required kiss and 18 months for purportedly persuading Hermoso, 34, to minimize the event.

Rubiales, 47, has actually called the kiss a “peck between friends celebrating” and refuted any kind of browbeating.

Tome took the helm of the females’s group in September 2023 after her precursor Jorge Vilda, likewise on test for claimed browbeating, was sacked throughout the outcry bordering the kiss.

She informed the National Court near Madrid that “sporting issues” led her to leave out Hermoso– the all-time leading marker for the nationwide females’s group– from her initial team adhering to the event.

“Jenni had not trained enough” and had actually just played a couple of mins with her Mexican club Pachuca, Tome claimed.

“She was going through a very unpleasant situation and the media pressure we were having made me take the decision… there were other players in a better position to represent the team,” Tome proceeded.

“It was an exceptional situation and we were protecting her from the media, but of course everything is absolutely a sporting decision. It was not a punishment.”

Last week, Hermoso’s sibling Rafael Hermoso informed the court Vilda had actually intimidated “professional and personal consequences” if the celebrity ahead did not show up with Rubiales in a video clip minimizing the event.

Tome claimed she was “totally the one responsible” for not phoning Hermoso “as we take consensual decisions with my technical team.”

Hermoso, that moved to one more Mexican side Tigres in 2024, has actually considering that stood for Spain however the detraction cast a darkness over the group’s World Cup success.

The test, which started a week back, proceeds.

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