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Aside from his conflicts with individual players, Quereda also had controversial influence over Liga F (then called the Superliga or Primera División), the nation's highest women's league. [11] Spain placed bottom of their group at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, the first time they qualified, despite the team having players with previous ...
The Rubiales affair (Spanish: Caso Rubiales) refers to the fallout, both social and sporting, caused by the conduct of Luis Rubiales, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), beginning in August 2023. Having acted inappropriately during the 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup final on 20 August 2023, Rubiales' response to the ...
Spain’s sports minister has called the incident the #MeToo moment of Spanish soccer. All 23 members of the Spanish women’s team are refusing to play unless Rubiales resigns, and the entire ...
A week after clinching Spain’s first Women’s World Cup, the country’s soccer federation is at war with the very players who brought home the trophy.. The scandal began just moments after La ...
Spain head coach Jorge Vilda (left) triggered complicated feelings around his team's Women's World Cup title. Spain soccer federation president Luis Rubiales triggered controversy.
Spain women's national team in 2018. At the 2019 Women's World Cup, Spain were in Group B with China PR, South Africa, and Germany. They finished second in the group to progress to the knockout stage of a World Cup for the first time in their history. [16] However, the team was eliminated in the round of 16 by the eventual champions United States.
First, Spain’s Women’s World Cup winners said they would no longer play for their country as they fight sexism in the nation's soccer federation. Now, Spain’s women’s league players are on ...
Early history: 1910s–1930s. Women's football was recorded as being played in Spain as early as the 1910s. [6] The first known women's football teams in Spain were founded in Barcelona in 1914, inspired by teams playing in England. A small football association, the Spanish Girl's Club, was set up and sponsored two teams, Montserrat and Giralda.