I spoke up against the Spanish federation in 2015 and never played for the national team again. Now we need real change
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I think the situation in Spain with Luis Rubiales is hard to explain to an international audience because this is something historical and cultural in our country. In the 1970s women couldn’t do sport and that was the mentality we had in this country. From then until now, has a lot changed? Yes, but not as much as it should have because there is still a lot of people who have a sexist mindset.
Within sport, specifically football in this case, there are still a lot of sexist people. Most of the leaders within Spanish football are men – and they are men from a certain generation with defined mindsets. So, what people outside Spain need to understand is that this problem goes much deeper. We are talking about a football federation but could be talking about any other federation or any other company for that matter.
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