2023-08-26 14:04:44
The FIFA disciplinary committee decided this Saturday to provisionally suspend the president of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, for 90 days from “all activities related to football at the national and international level” following the scandal over the kiss without the consent of the leader to the soccer player Jennifer Hermoso during the celebration of the world title obtained by the Spanish soccer team.
“The president of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee, Jorge Ivan Palacio, decided today to provisionally suspend Mr. Luis Rubiales from all activities related to football at the national and international level,” the agency said in a statement.
FIFA suspended Rubiales for the sexual violence scandal. (Photo: screenshot X/@fifamedia)
The suspension will be effective from this Saturday and for 90 days, notes the sports organization, “as long as the disciplinary procedure opened by this Disciplinary Commission once morest Mr. Luis Rubiales on Thursday, August 24, is processed.”
In addition, FIFA orders Rubiales to “refrain, through himself or third parties, from contacting or trying to contact” Jennifer Hermoso or “her close entourage”, to “preserve the fundamental rights of the player and the good order of the disciplinary procedure ” which is in process. It also orders the Federation and its employees to do so.
The scandal of Luis Rubiales for the kiss without consent to Jennifer Hermoso
The Spanish Soccer Team was crowned champion last Sunday in the Women’s Soccer World Cup, which was played in New Zealand and Australia. However, the sporting achievement of this team went into the background as a result of a controversial event that occurred when the players received the medals of champions.
In the midst of the joy and celebrations for the world championship, the president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, grabbed the player Jennifer Hermoso by the face and kissed her on the mouth without consent.
The images of Rubiales’ gesture were broadcast live and traveled the world and garnered criticism and repudiation.
What followed only complicated things. Rubiales gave a note to a Spanish journalist in which he explained that the controversy over the kiss he had given the player seemed “idiotic”, since everything had happened “between two celebrating friends”.
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