Lillian Briseño

What if the kiss had been given to a man?

It is worth imagining some scenarios about the consequences that this act would have had if we changed the sex of the protagonists.

By Lillian Briseño

With all the ink that has flowed about the kiss - "piquito"- that Luis Rubiales gave to the player Jenni Hermoso after winning the World Cup, and considering the statements of the then president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, it is worth imagining some scenarios about the consequences that this act would have had if we change the sex of the protagonists.

Scenario 1: The kiss is given by the president of the federation to another man.

What would have happened and who would have felt offended by such "audacity" on the part of an authority towards a soccer player? Let's say, for example, that the president of the Argentinean Football Association had given Messi a "piquito" in the midst of the jubilation that broke out after winning the last World Cup.

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