Jenni Hermoso’s brother says that Vilda pressed him for the player to reduce Rubiales’ kiss

Rafael Hermoso, brother of Jenni Hermoso, said Wednesday in her statement as a witness at the trial of Luis Rubiales and her circle of confidence that the then coach, Jorge Vilda, pressed him to convince the player to publicly go out to subtract Importance to the kiss that the then president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) had given during the delivery of World Cup medals. To questions from the prosecutor, Hermos has assured that Vilda – acted of a crime of coercion for these facts – said on the plane that brought back to Spain that if she collaborated with Rubiales she would have open the doors of the RFEF, but that if he did not take into account “the professional and personal consequences.”

The defense of Vilda, who faces a petition for a year and a half in jail, has tried to show the contradictions of Hermoso, which in two interviews on television tried to minimize the facts. “It has not given that [el beso] Le disturbs him, ”he said in an interview with the La Chiringuito de laSexta program in Madrid during the celebration. “It is being said that family members also receive coercion (…). Jorge Vilda I talked to him four times and at no time did nobody come to say anything, ”he said in another public mirror intervention (Antena 3). Asked about these facts, Hermos has recognized that she lied in those interviews to protect her sister and so that the focus was put in the victory in the World Cup.

The player’s brother has appeared as a witness in the trial in which the former federative president faces a sentence of up to two and a half years of prison for that kiss and for the plot that supposedly warned later to get rid of a scandal that gave the Back to the world and focused on machismo in women’s football. Vilda, the former sports director of the male team, Albert Luque, and the former marketing marketing, Rubén Rivera, are also being judged.

The judicial procedure that is now taking place began on September 11, 2023, three weeks after the Sydney final. Only a few days before the start of the investigation and, in the midst of increasing pressure, Rubiales had resigned to defend his “innocence.” At that time he was already suspended from his functions precautionary by FIFA and the Prosecutor’s Office had filed a complaint against him for crimes of sexual aggression and coercion after listening to the player. The Public Ministry ended up asking for him for two and a half years in prison as the author of crimes of sexual aggression and coercion and a year and a half in prison for the rest of the coercion.