Iniesta: "Rubiales is damaging the image of our country and our football around the world"

"It's a shame that a beautiful story that many players have built over so many years has become dirty"

   MADRID, 27 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Spanish footballer Andrés Iniesta, current playmaker for Emirates FC, assured that the suspended president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, "has clung to his position", that "his behavior has been unacceptable" and that "It is damaging the image of our country and our football around the world."

"We have had to put up with a president who has clung to his position, who has not admitted that his behavior has been unacceptable and that he is damaging the image of our country and our football throughout the world," Iniesta said this Sunday through of their social networks.

"After what has happened this week, I would like to convey my sadness, as a person, as the father of three daughters, as a husband and as a footballer, in the face of the events that we are experiencing in our football and around the Spanish women's team," said the de Fuentealbilla, author of the goal that gave Spain the men's World Cup in 2010.

"I think we can't tolerate performances like the ones we've seen, which have tarnished such a big milestone as winning a World Cup. I can't imagine the feeling all the players in the national team must have right now seeing how they're not talking about the great tournament they did and the fantastic football they taught us all", he added.

"It's a shame that a beautiful story that many players have built over so many years has become dirty," Iniesta said in his press release, alluding to the progression of Spanish women's football until the climax with the World Cup title.