In an interview with Piers Morgan, Luis Rubiales confirmed his resignation as president of the Spanish FA.
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00:00 You've come under ferocious pressure for three weeks now on you, on your family.
00:06 It's been very difficult for your daughters, they're young girls.
00:09 I can only imagine as a father myself, I have a daughter who's around the age of one of your girls.
00:14 Incredibly difficult.
00:16 There comes a point, perhaps, when the pressure is just so relentless
00:21 that you do think about what you should do with yourself and your future.
00:27 Many people think you should resign as president.
00:31 What are you going to do?
00:33 I love so much my daughters, and they love me so, so much.
00:39 I'm very happy and very proud of them.
00:43 Very, very proud of them. They are very near to me.
00:47 About my resignation, yes, I'm going to do.
00:50 You're going to resign?
00:52 Yes, because I cannot continue my work.
00:55 What was the final moment for you? Was it talking to your family, your dad perhaps?
00:59 Yes, my father, my daughters, I spoke with them.
01:04 They know it's not a question about me and some friends very close to me.
01:12 They said to me, 'Luis, now you have to focus on your dignity and to continue your life
01:21 because if not, probably you are going to damage people you love, the sport you love
01:28 and the bids you built with some people a long time ago.'
01:33 Now it's very near, the resolution next September, in one year.
01:37 Then when someone is not thinking only about himself,
01:43 because I have to support a lot these three weeks,
01:48 but it's more a question of not only me.
01:52 Then an attitude of me can affect third parties very important.
02:00 In this situation now, the more intelligent and the thing I have to do.