Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has sensationally resigned in a bombshell tell-all interview with Piers Morgan.
The suspended football boss on Monday morning quit his position in the wake of the explosive World Cup kiss scandal where he kissed Spanish star Jenni Hermoso following the country’s World Cup win.
“I’m going to (resign), yes, because I cannot continue my work,” Rubiales said on Morgan’s “Uncensored” talk show.
Rubiales last week launched an extraordinary attack in his first public statement following his fiery defensive speech in which he refused to resign.
“During all this time I have suffered an unprecedented lynching by news outlets and politicians that has completely marginalised me. Not just in Spain but internationally,” Rubiales said in his statement published on X, formerly known as Twitter.
The football official continues to argue the kiss was consensual, also insisted he was “advancing the feminist cause” and claimed his case would be significant for “real victims of aggression”.
“I have been deliberately sidelined. But I have presented all the relevant images that show the facts. That evidence will ignore opinions and clear my name,” he said.
“I want to send a message to all the good people in our country and beyond our borders, including those women who have really been attacked and who have my full support and understanding: this is not about gender, it is about truth.”