{"id":230829,"date":"2025-02-03T12:42:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/jenni-hermoso-never-agreed-to-kiss-from-former-spanish-football-chief-luis-rubiales\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T12:42:10","slug":"jenni-hermoso-never-agreed-to-kiss-from-former-spanish-football-chief-luis-rubiales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/03\/jenni-hermoso-never-agreed-to-kiss-from-former-spanish-football-chief-luis-rubiales\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenni Hermoso ‘never’ agreed to kiss from former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso has told the trial of Luis Rubiales she “never” agreed to the former Spanish football chief kissing her on the lips – and the moment “tainted one of the happiest days” of her life.<\/p>\n

Rubiales is on trial in Madrid for kissing Hermoso after Spain won the Women’s World Cup.<\/p>\n

The 47-year-old<\/a><\/strong> is accused of sexual assault and of then attempting to coerce Hermoso into declaring the kiss<\/a><\/strong> had been consensual. He denies the charges.<\/p>\n

Hermoso, 34, who is Spain’s all-time top goalscorer, told Madrid’s High Court on Monday she “felt disrespected” and had “never” agreed to the kiss.<\/p>\n

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“I didn’t hear or understand anything,” she said. “The next thing he did was to grab me by the ears and kiss me on the mouth.<\/p>\n

“I knew I was being kissed by my boss and that should not happen in any social or work environment,” she added.<\/p>\n

“I think it was a moment that tainted one of the happiest days of my life.<\/p>\n

“All this meant I couldn’t enjoy at all being a world champion after I landed back in Madrid.”<\/p>\n

Hermoso said she realised the extent of the scandal during the flight home when she noticed people huddled around Rubiales’ seat and his daughters crying.<\/p>\n

She said when she went to the bathroom she ran into Rubiales, who asked her to record a video with him because he was being accused on social media of assault.<\/p>\n

“I said no, that I was not going to do anything, that I was not the cause of this,” Hermoso told the court.<\/p>\n

She said Rubiales said he would speak to her family and she asked him to leave them out of it.<\/p>\n

She told the court how after the incident and the surrounding controversy, her life had been put on hold.<\/p>\n

“I have not been able to really live freely,” she said.<\/p>\n

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Former women’s national team coach Jorge Vilda, former Spanish football federation sporting director Albert Luque and the organisation’s ex-head of marketing Ruben Rivera are also going on trial accused of putting pressure on Hermoso.<\/p>\n

Rubiales kissed Hermoso on the lips as players collected their medals after Spain had beaten England 1-0<\/a><\/strong> in the final in Sydney in August 2023.<\/p>\n

He lost his job after initially refusing to resign and in October 2023 was banned from all football-related activities<\/a><\/strong> for three years by world governing body FIFA.<\/p>\n

The fallout from the incident led to a boycott by Spanish players of both the women’s and men’s national teams, while the case sparked protests in Spain and beyond demanding “a sport free of sexist violence”.<\/p>\n

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Rubiales ‘called his critics idiots’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prosecutors say Hermoso was pulled aside on the bus to the airport and asked to approve a statement in her name downplaying the incident, which she says she refused to do.<\/p>\n

The prosecution also says Vilda warned Hermoso’s brother that his sister’s football career would suffer if she did not agree to record a video backing Rubiales’ claim the kiss was consensual.<\/p>\n

Rubiales initially called his critics “idiots” before later apologising, saying the brief kiss was “without bad faith at a time of maximum effusiveness”.<\/p>\n

Rubiales and his co-defendants are expected to testify later in the trial once the court has interviewed the other witnesses.<\/p>\n

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Hermoso’s teammates to give evidence<\/strong><\/p>\n

He has called his daughters to testify while several of Hermoso’s Spanish teammates will also provide evidence.<\/p>\n

The prosecution wants Rubiales jailed for more than two years.<\/p>\n

In Spain, people handed sentences of less than two years can avoid jail if they pay damages.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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