Luis Rubiales’ mother begins hunger strike

FIFA grants 90 days for all competitions to Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), for kissing soccer player Jenni Hermoso on the lips without her consent at the awards ceremony after the National Team’s victory Spanish Women’s Soccer World Cup In Sydney on August 20, she was sentenced to proscription.

Luis Rubiales’ mother, Ángeles Béjar, began a hunger strike by locking herself in a church. The mother of the president of the federation, Ángeles Béjar, affirmed that her strike will continue “until a solution is found to the inhumane and bloody hunt against her son for something she did not deserve,” the EFE news agency reported. .

Béjar was staying at the Divina Pastora church in Motril, in southern Spain, with his sister after the priest left.

THE MOVE WAS A GREAT RESPONSE

Luis Rubiales, who announced that he would not resign despite pressure over the performance of the world champion Spanish Women’s Soccer Team in the championship celebrations, faced a harsh reaction in Spain.

After the incident, which provoked harsh criticism from many sectors, the Association of Spanish Professional Soccer Players (Futpro) communicated in writing that 81 soccer players would not play for the Spanish Soccer Team until the current directors of the federation were dismissed. Futpro, along with the names of 81 footballers, stated: “We want to record that if the current leaders continue, any player who signs this letter will not play in the National Team.”

FIFA instructed Luis Rubiales to refrain from contacting or attempting to contact, either by himself or by third parties, the professional player of the Spanish soccer team Jennifer Hermoso or his close circle, for which he was sentenced to 90 days of disqualification .