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Most of Spain’s worldwide footballers have agreed to rejoin the squad, the federal government mentioned Wednesday, following a strike by the World Cup winners over the disgraced former president of the federation forcibly kissing a participant. The announcement adopted hours of negotiations over participant calls for for additional adjustments on the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) after ex-president Luis Rubiales resigned. “We’ve arrived at a sequence of agreements which shall be drawn up and signed tomorrow” between the RFEF and the Spanish authorities, Victor Francos, secretary of state for sports activities, informed reporters, including that two of the 23 called-up gamers didn’t want to proceed with the squad. A complete of 19 gamers from new coach Montse Tome’s squad had been on strike over adjustments they need made to the RFEF, sparking issues they might not play in upcoming Nations League video games. Within the hours earlier than the deal was introduced, internationals chosen by Tome gathered for coaching regardless of declaring themselves unavailable, some expressing worry of going through sanctions in the event that they refused to play. “We’ve been compelled to come back. But when they need to sanction us, then we’ve to come back,”…

5 days after resigning as Spain’s soccer chief, Luis Rubiales appeared earlier than a choose on Friday investigating a criticism of sexual assault over forcibly kissing ladies’s World Cup participant Jenni Hermoso. His listening to got here because the World Cup-winning footballers mentioned they might proceed their boycott of the nationwide group until there are extra reforms on the Spanish soccer federation, regardless of Rubiales’ resignation over the affair. Dozens of journalists had been available because the 46-year-old left Madrid’s Audiencia Nacional court docket after he was questioned by Choose Francisco de Jorge who’s heading up the investigation. Rubiales didn’t communicate to the press. He was questioned on the closed-door listening to as a defendant with regard to allegations of “sexual assault”. Hermoso may even be referred to as to testify at a later date. On the listening to Rubiales as soon as once more maintained the kiss was consensual, a judicial supply mentioned. Public prosecutors, in the meantime, requested the choose to ban Rubiales from coming inside 500 metres (1,600 ft) of Hermoso and speaking along with her by any means whereas the investigation is underway, the supply added. The case comes barely 4…

Spanish soccer was rocked by the ‘kiss’ controversy© AFP Former Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales should seem in courtroom on Friday in reference to the investigation into his forcible kiss on Jenni Hermoso’s lips after the Ladies’s World Cup closing. Rubiales has been summoned to look at 1200 native time (1000 GMT) earlier than an inspecting Justice of the Peace “to be heard as an accused” and to reply to accusations of “sexual assault”, a Madrid courtroom mentioned in an announcement Tuesday. The 46-year-old kissed Hermoso following Spain’s triumph in Sydney on August 20, which she says was not consensual, whereas Rubiales insists it was. Choose Francisco de Jorge of the Nationwide Court docket admitted a criticism towards Rubiales on Monday filed by Spanish prosecutors final week relating to alleged “crimes of sexual assault and “coercion”. Underneath a latest reform of the Spanish penal code, a non-consensual kiss could be thought-about sexual assault, a felony class that teams collectively all varieties of sexual violence. The penalties for a pressured kiss can vary from a high quality to 4 years in jail, in accordance with sources from the general public prosecutors’ workplace. Rubiales stepped down because the Spanish soccer federation’s president on Sunday…

Spanish soccer has been affected by the “kissing” controversy© AFP Suspended Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales mentioned Sunday he’ll resign from his publish due to the scandal brought on by his kiss on the lips of a Ladies’s World Cup participant. “I will (resign), sure, as a result of I can’t proceed my work,” mentioned Rubiales in an interview with tv present “Piers Morgan Uncensored”. “(Household and pals) say to me ‘Luis, it’s good to focus in your dignity and proceed your life. If not you’re going to injury folks you like and the game you like’.” Rubiales, 46, sparked a worldwide backlash after forcibly kissing midfielder Jenni Hermoso throughout the medal ceremony following Spain’s World Cup triumph in Sydney on August 20. The chief was suspended by FIFA provisionally for 90 days, whereas Spanish public prosecutors filed a lawsuit in opposition to him for sexual assault and coercion earlier this week. Hermoso, 33, filed a grievance on the Nationwide Courtroom on Tuesday, formally accusing Rubiales of sexual assault. In a letter despatched by Rubiales to the federation on Sunday night time, he additionally mentioned he was resigning as a vice-president of European soccer governing physique UEFA. “After the swift suspension carried…

Spanish public prosecutors have filed a lawsuit towards soccer chief Luis Rubiales for sexual assault and coercion after he kissed participant Jenni Hermoso on the lips with out her consent, the prosecutors workplace stated Friday. Spanish soccer federation (RFEF) president Rubiales, 46, sparked a worldwide backlash after forcibly kissing Hermoso throughout the medal ceremony following Spain’s Ladies’s World Cup triumph in Sydney on August 20. “The prosecutors request that Luis Rubiales be questioned as an accused (social gathering) and Jenni Hermoso as a sufferer,” the prosecutors workplace stated in an announcement. The transfer comes after Hermoso, 33, filed a grievance on the Nationwide Court docket on Tuesday, formally accusing Rubiales of sexual assault. A decide on the court docket should now determine whether or not to just accept or archive the request. If the decide accepts the request, a Justice of the Peace might be assigned to go an investigation which is able to finish both with a advice for the case to go to trial or be dismissed. Beneath Spanish regulation, sexual assault consists of a wide selection of crimes from on-line abuse and groping to rape, every with completely different penalties. The punishment…

Spanish soccer has been affected by the ‘kiss’ controversy© AFP The Spanish soccer federation on Tuesday despatched its “most honest apologies” for the “completely unacceptable behaviour” of suspended president Luis Rubiales over his forcible kiss on a Girls’s World Cup participant. The RFEF provided its “most honest apologies… for the completely unacceptable behaviour of its highest institutional consultant throughout the last of the FIFA Girls’s World Cup 2023 and within the moments that adopted”, it mentioned in a press release.  Rubiales, 46, sparked worldwide outrage when he forcibly kissed Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso throughout the medal ceremony after Spain defeated England to win the Girls’s World Cup in Sydney on August 20. He has been suspended by FIFA pending an investigation however has refused to resign, defending the kiss as “only a peck” which he claimed was consensual. However Hermoso mentioned it was not and it had left her feeling just like the “sufferer of an assault”. “The harm brought about to Spanish soccer, to Spanish sport, to Spanish society and to the values of soccer and sport as a complete has been huge,” the RFEF mentioned in extending the apology to FIFA, UEFA “and particularly the gamers…