Wednesday, August 23, 2023

Double dub?

 Raise your coffee cup again this morning to Spain's women's soccer side, which won the World Cup the other day and -- indirectly because of that -- could now be closing in on another win.

Call it the Double Dub, and it involves Luis Rubiales, despised head of the Spanish soccer federation and general asshat.

The women's national team has been at war with Rubiales for awhile now, mainly because he backs the equally despised national coach, Jorge Vilma, who created a culture of hail-fellow-well-met so lacking in hail-fellow-well-met 15 national players refused to play for him. The consensus therefore is the Spanish women won in spite of him, not because of him.

And then they got a bonus: Rubiales behaving like Rubiales.

First, his federation stuck a thumb in the women's collective eye by tweeting out "Vilma In!" immediately after Spain's victory -- an unveiled shot at the "Vilma Out!" message the players have been preaching.

Then, during the on-field celebration, Rubiales went full asshat.

At the final whistle, he grabbed his crotch right in front of Queen Letizia of Spain and her 16-year-old daughter, Princess Infanta Sofia. Awhile later, while congratulating the players, he grabbed Jenni Hermoso's face and planted a kiss full on her lips.

You can probably guess from everything you've read so far that Hermoso did not enjoy this.

Rubiales, true to form, blew it off as an emotion-of-the-moment thing, lying that Hermoso did not object. When he was criticized for it, he called those who objected "idiots and stupid people." And when finally compelled to apologize ...

Well. Then he really ramped up the asshattery.

First, he tried to pressure Hermoso into appearing in a smooth-the-waters video with him. (Needless to say, she told him to get bent)

Then, he had his boy Vilma go to Hermoso's parents to try to pressure them. (Which didn't work either, again needless to say)

Now Rubiales' own federation is convening an emergency General Assembly meeting today to discuss the whole wretched business. Which you might guess cannot be good news for Rubiales, but who knows.

Will they suspend him? Send him packing? Tell him "don't do that again" and congratulate him on bringing Spain the World Cup?

The Double Dub awaits. Or not.

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