#SeAcabó: How the World Cup kiss sparked Spain's MeToo moment
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Hermoso described the actions of Rubiales as an "impulse-driven, sexist out-of-place act without any consent". Rubiales denies this and says it was "spontaneous" and "mutual".
The kiss has caused a backlash across football and in Spain, where protesters have called for action "to demand a sport free of sexist violence".
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to football commentator and founding member of Women in Football, Jacqui Oatley about how far the treatment and representation of women in the sport has come, and how far it still has to go.
Plus, Spanish journalist Maria Ramírez on why the kiss has sparked its own hashtag #SeAcabó and a MeToo moment that reaches far beyond football.
Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Senior podcast producer: Annie Joyce
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| 1:05.0 | Say Akabo. |
| 1:07.2 | It's over in Spanish. |
| 1:12.7 | Two words, which have come to represent a nation's anger over just one kiss. |
| 1:20.3 | In the aftermath of their World Cup victory, Spain's all-time top scorer, Jenny Hermoso, |
| 1:25.6 | was kissed on the lips by the president of the Spanish Football Federation Louis Rubialis. |
| 1:28.9 | She later said she had not consented, the team, |
| 1:33.3 | that they would not don the Spanish jersey again until he left his post. |
| 1:38.9 | Protests have happened on the streets of Madrid and elsewhere, as Rubialis refuses to budge and has even threatened legal action against Hermoso herself. |
| 1:43.7 | I'm Neil Patterson, and on today's episode, we'll be asking, is this Spain's Me Too moment? |
| 1:49.2 | And if so, why is it taken till now for it to happen? |
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