2023-09-12 17:17:28
12:15 PM
Apparently it was not by chance that Luis Rubiales chose Piers Morgan to announce his resignation as president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). In the two minutes of the interview with the journalist, the decision of the controversial leader to kiss the soccer player Jenni Hermoso without her consent was confirmed at the awards ceremony for the Women’s World Cup that was played in Australia and New Zealand in which the Spanish team came out successful.
And it was not by chance because Rubiales and Morgan share common ideas such as the fight against the “false feminism” that the former leader denounced in his speech before the RFEF Assembly a couple of weeks ago when he assured up to five times that “he was not going to resign”… And under pressure he ended up doing so, although he did not admit it that way, as he justified his resignation as “because I do not want to continue my job (…) My family and friends tell me that I have to focus on my dignity and continue with my life, otherwise I will harm the people I love and the sport I love.”
The exclusive was given to Morgan, in a two-hour interview that will be released in full this Tuesday, on his program Piers Morgan Uncensored (Piers Morgan Sin Censura, for its translation into Spanish), a space that the journalist has within the TalkTV network of the media magnate Rupert Murdoch, after the ITV network decided to dispense with the Good Morning Britain presenter due to his obsession with Meghan Markle during the time he lived with Prince Harry in the United Kingdom, as his attacks against the woman were countless mocking the mental health problems that Markle claimed she suffered from.
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Who is Piers Morgan?
Morgan, 58, is one of the most controversial and veteran figures of British tabloid journalism, with constant clashes with celebrities, since it was not only Meghan Markle who was the object of his scathing criticism. In his media spaces and on his .
He also reviews the Spanish newspaper El País, which has launched insulting messages against Chrissy Teigen, Madonna, JK Rowling and the Beckhams.
Criticism does not seem to matter to him, on the contrary, he “likes to fight,” as he stated in an interview with The Guardian in 2009. “I don’t start them, but I always finish them,” he said.
Before getting the scoop on Rubiales’ resignation, Morgan had already generated controversy in the football world less than a year ago when he interviewed Cristiano Ronaldo and he gave him some explosive statements about his departure from Manchester United, ensuring that “they betrayed me.” .
In fact, that interview with the Portuguese star earned him the award for exclusive of the year at the 2023 British Sports Journalism Awards.
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Morgan began his career at a very young age and at the age of 28 he had already achieved an important achievement: he became the youngest editor of the tabloid News of The World. Two years later he went on to run the Daily Mirror.
He also ventured into the American media when he hosted a talk show on CNN replacing the legendary Larry King, but the space was only on the air for three years due to its low ratings.
He was in the middle of the illegal wiretapping scandal
His name also resonated in one of the biggest scandals of the British press: the illegal eavesdropping that the Mirror used as a source for its articles for several years (1995-2004) at the time when Morgan was the director of the tabloid. This controversy forced him to resign.
The scandal is still ongoing and the medium has had to pay millionaire compensation and apologize publicly.
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