Final of the Women's Spanish Super Cup.
Real Sociedad 0 - Barça 3.
The trophy delivery ceremony begins.
The captain of the culé team, Marta Torrejón, goes up to the authorities' box to collect the Cup, which is handed over to her by the president of the Spanish Football Federation,
Luis Rubiales.
However, no one puts the medals on the champions and runners-up.
In its place there is a kind of sports 'self-service'.
One by one they are collecting them from some cases on a table set up on the edge of the lawn of the Romano José Fouto de Mérida, in the presence of an employee of the Federation.
Some put them on by themselves, others jokingly reward each other.
The collection is recorded by an amateur and the images soon spread through social networks.
They are described as "sexist" and "shameful", and controversy breaks out.
"What has happened here? Would something like this have happened with the men's team?"
The former president of the Higher Sports Council,
Irene Lozano , jumped on
.
In fact, with the men's team, in the final played in Saudi Arabia on January 15, it was Rubiales himself who awarded all the medals, both to the Barça players and to those of Real Madrid.
Immediately a supposed explanation flies over, or rather punishment.
In the box was next to Rubiales the national coach,
Jorge Vilda,
for which up to
15 players
, mostly present yesterday in the final, gave up returning to the team last September, for affecting their "emotional state, staff and performance.
The RFEF did not take long to come out to deny it by pulling the regulations, while blaming the stadium and the excess of institutional capacity: "
In accordance with the RFEF award protocols, and taking into account both the high number of institutional representation, as well as Like the infrastructures for access to the box from the stadium grass, the Protocol department decided to activate the delivery ceremony in the box in the same way that it is carried out in the Copa del Rey: delivery of the Cup to the team captain champion and delivery of medals to the winning team on pitch/locker room".
Luis Rubiales giving the Super Cup medal to the Barça player Sergio Busquets.
The truth is that the medals were not delivered on the pitch or the locker room, but between the benches.
And they didn't give themselves up either, but rather they
took them themselves from two cases.
The Spanish Federation adds: "
This is the same award ceremony that took place in the last edition of the Women's Super Cup in 2022."
However, in the 2022 Queen's Cup, played in May and under the same protocol, they did surrender, with Barça also as champion after beating Sporting de Huelva.
From the Federation they impute the management of this moment to the clubs themselves, who are the ones who decide who and how.
Even if they want the president of the Federation to do the honours.
But the president of the League,
Javier Tebas
, after almost 24 hours of controversy, Rubiales's explanations have not helped him, with whom he does not exactly have the best of relations.
On his social networks, he echoed Irene Lozano's tweet and added: "This happens when the much-repeated Values are lip service, cosmetics are fine... and you don't believe in them."
But the truth is that with the men's teams there is not always a medal ceremony.
Without going any further, in the final of the Copa del Rey last year, with a victory for Betis, it was the
members of the Verdiblanco staff
themselves who were in charge of distributing them.
And in 2021, with a victory for Barça, it was done privately and disorganized in the locker room.
Hence, in the images with the Cup there were players with a medal and without a medal.
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