Ex-Spanish soccer federation president Luis Rubiales has misplaced his enchantment towards a three-year ban from football-related actions by Fifa.
Rubiales stepped down from his position in September after kissing Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain’s Girls’s World Cup ultimate win towards England.
Hermoso, who later filed a authorized criticism towards Rubiales, mentioned the kiss was not consensual.
The choice could possibly be challenged earlier than the Court docket of Arbitration for Sport.
“Amongst different issues, the enchantment committee was comfortably happy that Mr Rubiales behaved in a way opposite to the rules enshrined below article 13 of the Fifa disciplinary code throughout and after the ultimate of the Fifa Girls’s World Cup,” a press release from world soccer’s governing physique learn.
Article 13 of the Fifa disciplinary code pertains to offensive behaviour and violations of the rules of truthful play.
On Thursday, a Spanish decide proposed that Rubiales should stand trial over the incident, describing the kiss as “not consensual and… a unilateral and stunning initiative”.
Prosecutors beforehand charged Mr Rubiales with sexual assault and coercion.
Rubiales has at all times maintained the kiss was a “consensual peck”, however within the wake of the incident, he was pressured to resign as president of the Spanish soccer federation (RFEF).
It set off a wave of world anger at sexism on the highest ranges of ladies’s sport.
World Cup-winning supervisor Jorge Vilda was sacked in September and is being investigated as a part of the legal case towards Rubiales.
Hermoso, who mentioned her picture had been tarnished by the kiss, returned to the nationwide facet in October and scored an 89th-minute winner towards Italy.
