{"id":290870,"date":"2023-08-30T10:21:03","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=290870"},"modified":"2023-08-30T10:21:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T10:21:03","slug":"barcelona-and-club-america-players-show-support-for-jennifer-hermoso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/soccer\/barcelona-and-club-america-players-show-support-for-jennifer-hermoso\/","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona and Club America players show support for Jennifer Hermoso"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Barcelona and Club America players support Jennifer Hermoso with &#8216;for you, for all of us&#8217; banner as football world unites behind Spain star after Luis Rubiales&#8217; World Cup final kiss<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>FIFA have suspended the embattled Spanish FA chief for a minimum of 90 days<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sevilla and Cadiz players showed support for Hermoso ahead of LaLiga matches<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><span>The Lionesses have also thrown their support behind the Spain star<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Barcelona and Club America players showed their support for Spain&#8217;s World Cup star Jennifer Hermoso, after she was kissed on the lips by Luis Rubiales, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Barca&#8217;s friendly with Club America in Mexico City on Tuesday night, players from both clubs held a banner reading: &#8216;It&#8217;s over, you&#8217;re not alone&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A slogan on a T-shirt held up by the players proclaimed: &#8216;Jenni, for you and for all of us&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales has been at the centre of a storm of controversy since he kissed Hermoso on the lips after the Spain won the Women&#8217;s World Cup final earlier this month in Sydney.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His actions sparked a global outcry, with people accusing him of both assaulting Hermoso and taking attention away from Spain&#8217;s achievement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/10\/74866783-12460541-image-a-2_1693387346212.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Barcelona and Club America players showed support for Spain&#8217;s World Cup star Jennifer Hermoso ahead of their friendly in Mexico City on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/10\/74866785-12460541-image-a-3_1693387349348.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Players held up a signs reading &#8216;You&#8217;re not alone&#8217; and &#8216;Jenni for you and for all of us&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Your browser does not support iframes.<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales told officials he asked permission to kiss Hermoso, who was said to have responded to say he could give her &#8216;a little peck&#8217;, a version the player has vehemently dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I want to clarify, that at no time did I consent to the kiss,&#8217; Hermoso said in a statement last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t tolerate that my word is questioned, much less that words are invented that I haven&#8217;t said.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales has also been criticised for grabbing his crotch in front of Spain&#8217;s Queen Letizia and her teenage daughter Sofia, which he has since apologised for, but has defiantly refused to resign from his post as the head of the RFEF.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish FA chiefs have called on Rubiales to resign with immediate effect with FIFA pushing to ban the official from all football for 15 years\u00a0amid the scandal, having already imposed a provisional suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Hermoso, meanwhile, has received widespread support from players and fans.<\/p>\n<p>All 23 members of Spain&#8217;s victorious World Cup squad\u00a0signed a statement refusing to play until the 46-year-old was sacked, following his stunning refusal to quit during an emergency assembly on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/10\/74867015-12460541-image-a-7_1693387564704.jpg\" height=\"438\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Hermoso was kissed on the lips by Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales (right) as she collected her medal after Spain beat England in the Women&#8217;s World Cup final earlier this month<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/10\/74866847-12460541-image-a-1_1693387344106.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Rubiales has held onto his role, despite being asked by the Spanish FA to step down<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, Atletico Madrid Women&#8217;s players held a banner reading &#8216;With you Jennifer Hermoso&#8217; ahead of their Copa de la Reina match against AC Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Hermoso received a standing ovation as she watched from the stands as her former club beat Milan 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>On the same day,\u00a0<span>Sevilla players showed their support by wearing t-shirts emblazoned with the phrase &#8216;it&#8217;s over&#8217; ahead of their <\/span>LaLiga<span>\u00a0defeat to Girona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span>Cadiz players, meanwhile, walked onto the pitch holding a sign reading &#8216;We are Jenni&#8217; ahead of their LaLiga match against Almeria.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the US, Houston Dash players held a sign reiterating a similar message ahead of their game against Kansas City.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Lionesses also rallied\u00a0around Spain&#8217;s women&#8217;s football team on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Unacceptable actions allowed to happen by a sexist and patriarchal organisation.&#8217; the statement from the World Cup runners-up read.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Abuse is abuse and we have all seen the truth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The behaviour of those who think they are invincible must not be tolerated and people shouldn&#8217;t take any convincing to take action against any form of harassment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/10\/74866821-12460541-image-a-10_1693387928204.jpg\" height=\"446\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>A Villarreal fan wears a wristband in support of Hermoso at a match against Barcelona<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/10\/74866829-12460541-image-a-9_1693387657830.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Sevilla players warmed up wearing T-shirts reading the &#8216;It&#8217;s over&#8217; hashtag that Hermoso used in her social media post denouncing Rubiales last week\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/08\/30\/10\/74866817-12460541-image-a-8_1693387651589.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Atletico Madrid and AC Milan players showed support for Hermoso by holding a banner reading: &#8216;With you Jennifer Hermoso&#8217; ahead of their\u00a0Copa de la Reina match<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We stand with you, Jenni Hermoso.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to BBC Sport on Tuesday, Lionesses star Ella Toone insisted Rubiales should be removed from his post.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Something like that doesn\u2019t just go away with a sorry &#8211; which he hasn\u2019t said either.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We don\u2019t want things like this to be happening in women\u2019s sport and unfortunately it\u2019s a talking point we shouldn&#8217;t have to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;We should be talking about the success of the World Cup and how much we\u2019ve inspired the nation and the next generation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;And yet it&#8217;s overshadowed by something that shouldn\u2019t be happening so hopefully the right thing is done.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Public support for Hermoso has reached beyond football&#8217;s traditional boundaries, with demonstrators\u00a0lining the streets of Madrid to demand Rubiales&#8217; 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