““I didn’t talk to anyone from the Federation about the kisses, statements or explanations.”He assured the marketing director of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF): Ruben Rivera, On the 10th, in his testimony as a defendant before the instructor of the National Court judge Francisco de Jorge Rubiales caseFor the kiss the former president of the RFEF gave to actress Jenni Hermoso after the World Cup final, which the Spanish team won.
In the full text of his statement before the judge, which was available to EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA of the Ibérica Prensa Group, Rivera distances himself from the charge of coercion attributed to him by the judge and the specific question of whether there was any. He insisted that he speak to Jenni Hermoso of the Federation, to which she replied, “of course not.”
He later added: “ The most reliable evidence of this is that Jennifer Hermoso herself addressed me in the hours following my very brief contact with her.. The next day when they leave the island (Ibiza) he calls out to me and all the players are talking one after another. You thanked me for knowing the business. What did he do?”
Showdown on Monday
Rivera, who was summoned again to the National Court this Monday to exclude the inconsistencies between Hermoso’s friend Ana Belén Ecube and the statements of both of them in court, assured that he was only “semi-aware” of the media repercussions. He had received a kiss. “I’m telling you half-consciously. Half-consciously. Because I repeat it and it can be verified, “I was working 20-22 hours a day without overdoing a lot of things.”
Jenni downplayed the importance of talking to Hermoso, saying that she did not attach more importance to it because she was “preoccupied with the security of the World Cup” at the clubs where the players and their friends would go, and at the same time she was interested in them. His sister’s baby is a football player. She justified Hermoso offering to charge her cell phone and telling her to try to find the phone. Integrity Director Miguel García CabaFor his report on what happened during the medal ceremony “Federation employee” was in Ibiza with the actors and served as a “switchboard”. “Mr. Rubiales never contacts me,” he said.
But he denied acting “persistently” to get Jenni to talk to García Caba and the manager of the Spanish team, who was also accused. Albert Luque. When asked by the parties, he admitted that he only wanted to speak to the player who reported the kiss that Rubiales gave him.
He assured that Jenni Hermoso was not talking to García Caba while she was charging her cell phone. “This is completely unclear. No one’s cell phone was ever charged enough to work within 5 minutes (…) But in addition to that, Mr. Miguel García called him once and I never heard anything again.”