Netflix releases documentary on Spanish women’s football chief controversy | Football News

A documentary on the controversy created former Spain Football boss Luis Rubiales when he non-consensually kissed Spanish women’s team player Jenni Hermoso has been released on Netflix in Spanish titled ‘It’s All Over: The Kiss That Changed Spanish Football’. The documentary is based on the issues that the Spanish women’s team had been facing, even prior to the incident at the FIFA Women’s World Cup final in Australia.
The documentary begins with the incident and then the gradual realisation of what had happened, amongst the players. It then traces how the players were asked to downplay what had happened to the press.
“Before getting on the plane, Jenni told me that she was being pressured to give a statement to protect Rubiales,” Amanda Gutierrez, president of players’ union Futpro, said, according to BBC Sport. “She said ‘No, why would I do that? I won’t sign anything. I don’t want to give any statements. But I am very stressed out because they won’t stop pressurising me’.”
What followed afterwards was the unilateral support of her teammates, all of whom recognised that this was an opportunity to fix the Spanish football association and their treatment towards women’s football players.
“The fact that all of our team, as well as players from all over the world, were willing to take a stand, that gave me so much strength for everything. I think it gave me a superpower to confront it and keep going,” Hermoso said in the documentary. “As a result of this we’ve set a precedent, and there are so many women who can feel stronger.”
Two weeks after the incident happened, Rubiales, who remained defiant and refused to acknowledge what had happened, resigned from his post as the head of the association.

He later termed the incident as a ‘social assasination’. Rubiales has also been banned for three years Fifa from all activities.