Jennifer Hermoso has said the kiss from Luis Rubiales, head of the Spanish soccer federation, at the women’s World Cup was not consensual. The scandal has grown into a reckoning over sexism.
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Jorge Vilda, Coach of Spain’s Women’s Soccer Team, Is Fired
Players had accused the coach, Jorge Vilda, of outdated methods and controlling behavior. His boss, Luis Rubiales, is still embroiled in scandal over a nonconsensual kiss.
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Pressure Mounts on Rubiales Over Kiss at World Cup
Luis Rubiales has defied calls to resign, now echoed by his own federation. Soccer’s world governing body has suspended him, and prosecutors have opened an initial investigation.
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Spain’s Soccer Federation Forces Reckoning With Sexism
The nonconsensual kiss that Luis Rubiales, the president of Spain’s soccer federation, pressed on Jennifer Hermoso has come to embody the generational fault line between a culture of machismo and more recent progressivism.
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Spanish Prosecutors Open Inquiry Into Luis Rubiales
Luis Rubiales caused outrage with his conduct after Spain won the Women’s World Cup and then for his defiant stand when he came under heavy criticism.