FIFA’s disciplinary committee has suspended Luis Rubiales, former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), from all football-related activities at national and international level for three years for violating Article 13 of the FIFA Code. reported this morning.
This committee will therefore decide on the disciplinary proceedings opened on August 24 against Luis Rubiales following the events that followed the Women’s World Cup final in Australia and New Zealand, in which Spain were declared world champions after beating England.
The former Spanish president touched his genitals on the box and later kissed player Jennifer Hermoso on the mouth on stage during the awards ceremony.
Initially, Rubiales was provisionally suspended for a period of 90 days and on Monday he received notice of the disciplinary committee’s decision to punish him for three years.
The former president of the RFEF, the day after his provisional suspension, categorically refused to resign during the meeting of the federation body, stating that the kiss was consensual, which was denied by the footballer, who currently plays for the Mexican club Pachuca, and in which Spanish players resigned en masse to play for the national team “if the current managers move on”, as did a large part of the women’s organization’s coaching staff, with the exception of Jorge Vilda, the then World Cup coach winning team. However, like men’s coach Luis de la Fuente, he deplored the leader’s “inappropriate behaviour”.
Finally, on September 6, Jenni Hermoso reported Rubiales to the Public Prosecutor’s Office for the kiss she received on the mouth and filed a complaint against the former president, who finally announced his resignation four days later in a statement published on his account and was announced on social media. media. . X (formerly Twitter).
FIFA emphasizes that, in accordance with the current provisions of its disciplinary code, Rubiales has ten days to “request a reasoned decision, which will then be published on request on legal.fifa.com” and which will be against the decision can be appealed to the appeals committee.
World football’s governing body added that it “affirms its absolute commitment to respecting and protecting the integrity of all people and to ensuring that the basic rules of decent behavior are respected.”
Source: La Neta Neta
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