Spain’s World Cup winning squad won't play again whilst Luis Rubiales remains as president

The breaking news in the last few minutes that the entire Spain World Cup winning squad has said they will not play any more matches until the Spanish FA president Luis Ribiales is removed from his position. Our chief reporter Carvey Solicol is back here. Carvey is this the beginning of the end for him? Well look I think he's under intense pressure this evening but so far he has not given any indication that he is willing to resign. But look his position is now untenable. You cannot have the president of a football federation whose women's team are the world champions and then the whole squad not just the 23 strong squad but add another 23 women players to that list as well who've come out and released a statement through their union saying that they will play for Spain again unless the president of the federation is removed. So Luis Ribiales can say what he wants. He can grandstand on stage. He can say he's been a victim of a witch hunt but you can't be the president of a football federation if one of your national teams who just so happened to be the world champions who became the world champions five days ago are coming out and saying we are not going to play for our country again until this man is removed from his position. I think they are doing is trusting the Spanish government to deal with this because everybody thought Luis Ribiales himself would do the honourable thing and resign. Then people thought the federation would do the right thing and dismiss him. Those two things haven't happened so the Spanish government have basically said no problem leave it to us we're going to sort out this problem. Is the fact the players have said we won't play let's not forget they are the world champions is that more significant than the government getting involved? I think you're right. I think look you can hear from politicians we can hear from players on social media. What we were waiting for was a statement from the squad the players themselves. We were told earlier this afternoon that a statement was on its way. I think what they were doing is formulating that statement, distributing it amongst all the players in private, making sure that everybody was happy and was going to sign up to it and once that had been decided they have released this statement. But look imagine the situation where for instance you had the England squad the men's or the women's squad coming out and saying we're not going to play for England again until the president of the Football Association is removed. You would say incredible incredible he's going to lose his job the position his position is untenable and that is the situation we are in this evening. It remains to be seen now whether Luis Ribiales is going to wake up and smell the coffee and come out himself and issue a statement and say you know what I'm sorry and I'm going to take responsibility for what I've done I'm finally going to do the right thing and resign or if he's going to carry on digging if he's going to carry on being defiant and wait another couple of days until the Spanish administrative sports tribunal deals with this issue. But look he's a dead man walking I think look every five minutes we're getting developments we're getting statements from players just in the last few minutes we've had a statement from the La Liga side Athletic Bilbao who were saying that their president Mr. John Riuarte is stepping down from the Spanish Federation board. So look this is drip by drip by drip his position is becoming more and more untenable I think it's inevitable that either he's going to resign or he's going to be dismissed. And still we haven't heard anything from UEFA. Indeed. Nothing. He is a UEFA vice president sits on their executive committee not one word out of them. Carver Sardarkal our chief reporter thank you very much