{"id":2813,"date":"2023-08-26T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2813"},"modified":"2023-08-26T14:46:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-26T14:46:03","slug":"fifa-suspends-spanish-fa-boss-rubiales-over-jenni-hermoso-kiss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/26\/fifa-suspends-spanish-fa-boss-rubiales-over-jenni-hermoso-kiss\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA Suspends Spanish FA boss, Rubiales Over Jenni Hermoso Kiss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has been provisionally suspended by world governing body Fifa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Rubiales has\u00a0refused to resign\u00a0after kissing forward Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain\u2019s Women\u2019s World Cup final win over England in Sydney.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The federation also says it will take\u00a0legal action over Hermoso\u2019s \u201clies\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">But Fifa has opted to \u201cprovisionally suspend Mr Luis Rubiales from all football-related activities at national and international level\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Fifa\u00a0opened disciplinary proceedings\u00a0against the 46-year-old on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">\u201cThis suspension, which will be effective as of today, is for an initial period of 90 days, pending the disciplinary proceedings,\u201d Fifa added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Fifa has also ordered Rubiales or any representative of the federation (RFEF) to refrain from attempting to contact Hermoso, 33.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The RFEF said in\u00a0an earlier statement\u00a0it had tried to contact Hermoso, who is Spain\u2019s leading women\u2019s goalscorer with 51 from 101 appearances, but had \u201cbeen unsuccessful at all times\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Earlier, a senior figure at the RFEF said he has stepped down from his position.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has been provisionally suspended by world governing body Fifa. Rubiales has\u00a0refused to resign\u00a0after kissing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2815,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2814,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2813\/revisions\/2814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}