Many expected Friday to be the day that Luis Rubiales, the head of Spain's soccer federation, would tender his resignation. That's not what happened — and by the end of the day members of the national women's soccer team vowed not to play as long as Rubiales and other leaders remain in power.
At an emergency meeting of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Rubiales made a speech in which he claimed that the kiss he planted on the mouth of player Jennifer Hermoso after the Women's World Cup final was consensual and mutual, and claimed that he was the victim of "false feminists."
