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FIFA provisionally suspends Spanish soccer president Luis Rubiales

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FIFA’s Disciplinary Committee has provisionally suspended Spanish football federation (RFEF) head Luis Rubiales for 90 days, it stated on Saturday, amid uproar after he grabbed participant Jenni Hermoso’s head and kissed her at the lips after Spain’s victory on the Girls’s Global Cup.

Rubiales have been anticipated to announce his resignation on Friday however as an alternative stated he would no longer step down, and the RFEF threatened prison motion to protect him after Hermoso stated she didn’t consent to the kiss he gave her.

“The chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee… has determined nowadays to provisionally droop Mr Luis Rubiales from all football-related actions at nationwide and global stage,” FIFA stated in a commentary.

Its disciplinary committee additionally ordered Rubiales and RFEF officers and workers alike to chorus from contacting or making an attempt to touch Hermoso or the ones round her.

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The Spanish nationwide group that gained the Global Cup in addition to a number of different gamers have stated they wouldn’t play global fits whilst Rubiales stays head of the federation.

“The verdict followed via the chairman of the FIFA Disciplinary Committee has been communicated nowadays to Mr Luis Rubiales, the RFEF and (Eu football frame) UEFA for due compliance.”

The committee stated it might no longer supply to any extent further knowledge at the disciplinary court cases till a last resolution was once taken.
There was once no fast response from the RFEF. Reuters has contacted UEFA, the place Rubiales is a vp, for remark.