Spain Football Federation (RFEF) President Luis Rubiales has apologised for kissing Jennifer Hermoso on the podium after Spain's World Cup win.
on Sunday evening. On Monday, however the president adopted a more contrite tone in a video released to the media.Rubiales said: "I have made a mistake. I have to recognize that, because in a moment of maximum euphoria, without any bad intentions, without any bad faith, what happened happened, very spontaneously, without any bad faith on either side."
"From here, we saw it as something natural, normal, and not at all in bad faith. But outside, there seems to have been an uproar. Of course, if there are people who have been hurt by this, I have to apologise, there is no other way".
The heartbreaking news was only broken to the Real Madrid star after the celebrations and media duties were complete.
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