2023-08-27 10:06:00
The International Football Federation (Fifa) decided on Saturday to suspend for 90 days Rubiales, president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), “of any football-related activity at national and international level”two days after opening a disciplinary investigation against him.
According to several local media, the Spanish Sports Administrative Court (TAD) will meet on Monday to study a request for suspension of the functions of president of Rubiales, 46, formulated for its part by the government.
This suspension could last beyond Fifa’s 90 days, pending the final resolution by the TAD of the government’s complaint against Rubiales for “very serious infractions”.
“We will ask the TAD to meet on Monday. If the TAD accepts the government’s complaint, we will immediately proceed with the suspension of the president’s functions”Spanish Sports Minister Miquel Iceta said in an interview with the daily El Pais on Saturday.
“The only sanctions provided for by the Sports Law are to impose a fine or ineligibility for a period of between two and fifteen years”said Sunday the lawyer specializing in sports law, Toni Roca, in an interview with Spanish public television.
Refusal to resign
On the criminal level, the boss of Spanish football was the subject of four complaints for sexual assault received by the Spanish public prosecutor’s office on Friday, but none come from the player for the moment, and therefore have little chance of success.
Rubiales sparked international outrage when she forced a kiss on the mouth of Jenni Hermoso on August 20 during the Women’s Worlds medal ceremony. Against all odds, he refused to resign at an extraordinary general meeting of the RFEF on Friday and counterattacked by saying that this kiss was “consensual”.
The player denied. “I felt vulnerable and victim of an assault, an impulsive and sexist act, out of place and without any consent on my part”said the 33-year-old Spanish N.10 in a statement on Friday evening.
The Spanish federation issued a statement on Saturday in which it maintains that Jenni Hermoso “lies in all his statements against the president”, before removing this same press release from its website. The RFEF also indicated that Pedro Rocha Junco, vice-president, would ensure the interim at the head of the Federation during the suspension of his boss.
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