Luis Rubiales, the previous president of the Spanish Football Association (RFEF), has been banned from all football-related actions for 3 years.
The ban was imposed by FIFA following the allegedly non-consensual kiss Rubiales gave to Spain participant Jenni Hermoso after this yr’s Women’s World Cup closing during which Spain beat England.
The “kiss-gate” scandal fully overshadowed what was a momentous second for Spanish girls’s soccer and blew up right into a sexism storm that attracted world headlines.
“The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has banned Luis Rubiales, the former president of the Spanish Football Association (RFEF), from all football-related activities at national and international levels for three years, having found that he acted in breach of article 13 of the FIFA Disciplinary Code,” FIFA mentioned in a press release.
Rubiales resigned in September from his place as RFEF president, saying his place had change into untenable. He had initially vowed to not stand down regardless of stress from gamers, politicians and girls’s teams.
Hermoso filed a grievance towards Rubiales that he and his entourage had issued a press release with out her approval quoting her as saying the kiss was a “mutual, totally spontaneous gesture”.
Rubiales, 46, has the proper to attraction towards the choice.
“Mr Rubiales has been notified of the terms of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee’s decision today,” FIFA mentioned. “The decision remains subject to a possible appeal before the FIFA Appeal Committee.”
