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Spain: FIFA on Saturday suspended Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales after the soccer governing body opened disciplinary proceedings into what a member of Spain\u2019s Women\u2019s National Team said was a non-consensual kiss he gave her after the team\u2019s World Cup win last week.<\/span><\/p>\n Rubiales\u2019 suspension, which takes effect immediately, bars him from all soccer-related activities at both the national and international level for 90 days, pending the results of the governing body\u2019s disciplinary proceedings, FIFA announced in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n FIFA also ordered Rubiales, as well as the Spanish Football Federation\u201d to \u201crefrain, through himself or third parties,\u201d from contacting Jenni Hermoso, the national team member he kissed, \u201cor her close environment.\u201d<\/p>\n Rubiales\u2019 kiss, which Hermoso said was not consensual, has garnered international scrutiny, and prompted the Spanish women\u2019s national soccer team to release a joint statement this week refusing to play any further matches until Rubiales is removed from his post, just hours after Rubiales refused to step down.<\/p>\n On Friday, Hermos had responded to a defiant speech by Rubiales, during which he described the kiss as \u201cmutual,\u201d with a statement which said that at no point did she consent to the kiss.<\/p>\n Writing on social media, Hermoso said: \u201cI felt vulnerable and a victim of an impulse-driven, sexist, out of place act without any consent on my part.\u201d<\/p>\n The row has overshadowed Spain\u2019s historic victory in Sydney, Australia, and dominated headlines throughout the week.<\/p>\n Following Spain\u2019s 1-0 win over England in the final, Rubiales was filmed kissing Hermoso on the lips after she had collected her winners\u2019 medal, an act which the 33-year-old said later that day she \u201cdidn\u2019t like\u201d and \u201cdidn\u2019t expect.\u201d<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n [ad_2] [ad_1] Spain: FIFA on Saturday suspended Spanish Football Federation President Luis Rubiales after the soccer governing body opened disciplinary proceedings into what a member of Spain\u2019s Women\u2019s National Team said was a non-consensual kiss he gave her after the team\u2019s World Cup win last week. Rubiales\u2019 suspension, which takes effect immediately, bars him from all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6301,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6299\/revisions\/6301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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