The court rejected his appeal, now the former president risks up to two and a half years in prison. What is going on.
It’s a moment particularly difficult for Spanish football. An article published a few weeks ago on the sports in-depth website Ultimo Uomo, for example, pointed out how the last Classic played by Barcelona and Real Madrid, now showing clear signs of decline, and what was seen on the pitch, cannot be in any way comparable to the wonderful clashes between Barcelona and Real Madrid of previous years, in which the Classic it was by far the most anticipated match of the year.
Today, also thanks to the downsizing of Barcelona, interest seems to have decidedly shifted towards the big matches of the Premier League, and for many fans, Spanish football is now losing its charm.
Then there is the problem of racism, with the tears of Vinicius Junior which went around the world last month.
The fact that a top Real Madrid player, the one who is perhaps the best left winger in the world right now, has to be punished throughout the year with such heavy racist chants, and who have repeatedly sent Carlo Ancelotti into a rageexplains better than other examples how serious the problem of racism is in the Iberian nation.
New scandal in Spanish football: what’s happening
And the last tile for Spanish football has arrived in recent days, with the latest developments in the case which concerns the former President of the Spanish football federation Luis Rubiales.
In fact, the man had ended up in the center of a real scandal for the kiss given to the footballer Jennifer Hermoso during the awards ceremony for the World Cup won by the Spanish women’s national team. A gesture which had outraged the whole world and which had led Rubiales to have to resign. And now, it is news in the last few hours that the Spanish National Court has authorized the trial against Rubiales precisely for that episode.
Green light for the trial against Rubiales
The Prosecutor’s Office has in fact requested a sentence of two and a half years in prison on charges of sexual violence and subsequent coercion, also requesting also compensation of fifty thousand euros for the footballer victim of his gesture.
An important case, which for the first time leads a former sports president to risk prison for an attitude of vulgar machismo which resulted in violence on worldwide television and which certainly it will also have profound repercussions on the Spanish men’s Serie A.
