What a depressing spectacle is the melodrama now playing at Spain's National Court, said Fernando Palmero in El Mundo (Madrid). Its focus is Luis Rubiales, former president of the Royal Spanish ...

Ella Cody critiques the infamous Rubiales trial which brought to light issues of misogyny and consent in women's football ...

the then much-heralded former president of Spain’s Football Association, who live on air, put his hands around her head and kissed her on the mouth. He was recently found guilty of assaulting her, but ...

Jenni Hermoso has told the trial of former Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales that the kiss he gave her at the 2023 World Cup "stained one of the happiest days of my life". Rubiales, the former ...

Rubiales said Hermoso consented to the kiss but she denied it. The former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales at the exit of the National Court, February 11 ...

Although he insisted that the kiss was neither illegal nor immoral during the trial, the football boss admitted that it had been a mistake. Hermoso told the court that she 'never' agreed to the ...

A Spanish court on Thursday convicted and fined former football chief Luis Rubiales of sexual assault over the forced kiss he gave star forward Jenni Hermoso but acquitted him of the charge of ...

Luis Rubiales, the president of the Spanish Football Federation, has apologised for kissing star player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain won the Women's World Cup. Rubiales, 45, planted the ...

This isn't really about the kiss, said Jordi Gracia in El País (Madrid). It's about calling out "the chauvinist arrogance at the heart of male power in Spanish football". Female footballers have ...