2023-08-27 07:08:55
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee provisionally suspended the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, for the non-consensual kiss of the Spanish footballer Jenni Hermoso. “This suspension extends for an initial period of ninety days and as long as the disciplinary procedure opened by this Disciplinary Commission once morest Mr. Luis Rubiales on Thursday, August 24, is processed,” said a statement from the highest world soccer body. .
The measure was adopted by the president of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, the Colombian Jorge Iván Palacio, and excludes Rubiales “from all activities related to football at the national and international level.”
The Spanish sports leader had headed the Ordinary General Assembly of the RFEF on Friday, when he ruled out any possibility of resigning following kissing Jenni Hermoso on the mouth without her consent during the medal ceremony for the Women’s Soccer World Cup. For Rubiales, it was a “spontaneous, mutual, euphoric and consented kiss”, something that was denied by the world champion soccer player.
In addition, Palacio issued two additional directives with the aim of “preserving, among other factors, the fundamental rights of Jennifer Hermoso and the good order of the disciplinary procedure that is being processed before this disciplinary body”, and ordered that the president of the RFEF “refrains, himself or through third parties, from contacting or trying to contact the player or his close environment”.
Hermoso had already assured in a statement that “at no time” did he consent to that kiss, dismantling Luis Rubiales’ defense. And the international players announced on Friday that they will refuse to play for the National Team under the current leadership of the RFEF.
The case splashes the image of sport in Spain, a candidate country for the organization of the 2030 World Cup along with Portugal and Morocco.
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