Former Spanish football boss Luis Rubiales found guilty of sexual assault
Rubiales was cleared of the charge of coercion for trying to downplay the kiss on the lips of Hermoso during the Women’s World Cup awards ceremony after the final in Sydney.
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Rubiales was cleared of the charge of coercion for trying to downplay the kiss on the lips of Hermoso during the Women’s World Cup awards ceremony after the final in Sydney.
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00:00Former president of the Spanish football federation Luis Rubiales has been found guilty of sexually
00:07assaulting player Jenny Hermoso.
00:10He was fined more than 10,000 euros and ordered not to come within 200 meters of Hermoso or
00:15communicate with her for a year.
00:17Rubiales was cleared of coercion for trying to downplay the kiss, which happened during
00:22the Women's World Cup awards ceremony in Sydney in 2023.
00:26Rubiales said Hermoso consented to the kiss, something she denied.
00:31Hermoso said during her testimony that she felt disrespected by Rubiales.
00:36She said she was pressured into recording a video with Rubiales to downplay the kiss.
00:42Rubiales and the other defendants said they never tried to pressure Hermoso into doing
00:46anything.
00:47Rubiales resigned three weeks after the scandal surfaced and was banned by FIFA for three
00:52years.
00:53The kiss prompted widespread outrage in society beyond football and ignited one of the most
00:58embarrassing scandals in the history of the game in Spain.