MADRID, 29 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
This Friday, the British newspaper The Guardian chose Jenni Hermoso as 'footballer of the year', for the glory, adversity and a struggle that is still alive that she starred in in 2023.
“At the moment of her greatest triumph, Spain's world champion became the center of football's battle against misogyny,” says The Guardian. The English media highlights the return to the Hermoso fields, on October 27, to score the winning goal against Italy in the Nations League.
The Madrid player returned to the national team after becoming world champion but finding herself at the center of an unpleasant controversy due to the kiss of the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, during the awards ceremony after the final.
However, the kiss that she denounced as non-consensual triggered a series of changes in the RFEF after the players came together to denounce systematic discrimination for decades.
“This award was created to recognize the achievements of players who have done extraordinary things and overcome great adversity. Hermoso is the eighth winner and fourth woman to win the award, after Khadija Shaw in 2018, Megan Rapinoe, another World Cup winner, in 2019 and Virginia Torrecilla in 2022,” adds the newspaper, which once again rewards a Spanish woman.