Do you remember the controversial kiss with a player from the Spanish national team? Luis Rubiales will know his future this Friday

The Administrative Court of Sports (TAD) will resolve this Friday the file opened to the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales. This is due to the kiss to international Jenni Hermoso and her gesture in the box after the final of the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand, reports the legal portal ‘Iusport’.

In its resolution of August 31, the court partially upheld the complaint presented by the Higher Sports Council (CSD). And, he agreed to open a disciplinary file against Luis Rubiales for two infractions. He described these as serious violations of sporting decorum, although he ruled out the very serious abuse of authority.

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As Europa Press reported this Monday, Luis Rubiales requested the archiving and dismissal of said TAD file. This one proposed two sanctions, each one lasting one year and six months. Considers both actions as serious infractions of the Sports Law and sports discipline legislation.

In its 18-page appeal, Rubiales’ defense argued that these sanctions “do not correspond” with the reasoning in the rest of the text of the proposed resolution. Since, on the contrary, they appear “disconnected” and project an “arbitrary” and “unjustified” request. In this sense, Rubiales considers that the sanction should be, in the worst case, a warning, fine or disqualification of three or six months.

The president of the National Women’s Soccer Committee, Rafael del Amo, tells the judge that the former president of the Federation Luis Rubiales asked Jorge Vilda to speak with Jenni Hermoso’s brother after the kiss he gave the player in the final of the World Cup in Australia. pic.twitter.com/lhUdEXU4Sm

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In his statement, the former president of the RFEF denounced the “permeability” and “influence” of media pressure and the political powers of the TAD. And, he announced that they would be “serving him on a platter” to go to criminal jurisdiction. This “in case a sanction is consumed for these events.”

Likewise, Rubiales lamented that there has been a “bestial theatricalization”, a “brutal demagoguery” and a “lynching” in his case. Just as he pointed out the “capricious coincidence” in the number of his file, 155, with the article of the Constitution that the Government applied in 2017 in Catalonia, after the declaration of independence by the Parliament.

On the other hand, he censured and described as “very serious” the “malicious” leak of the proposed 3-year sanction by a member of the TAD to the press. Generating “a parallel public trial” and “total helplessness.”

Rubiales admitted that the gesture of touching his genitals in the box was a “crude,” “inappropriate” and “ordinary” act. However, he reiterated that it was addressed to the then national coach, Jorge Vilda. And, he stressed that neither said gesture nor that of the kiss to Jenni Hermoso “are contrary to sporting dignity and decorum.”

She confessed that she should have omitted the kiss to Hermoso, although she insisted again that it was a “mutual” and “spontaneous” gesture due to the immense joy of having just won the first women’s soccer World Cup in history, as well as that it had no impact whatsoever. in sports competition and cannot be sanctioned “with the law in hand.”