After months out of the spotlight, former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, is back in the public eye. He has presented his book. Kill Rubialeswhere he discusses the non-consensual kiss with Jenni Hermoso and his forced departure from the RFEF (Royal Spanish Football Federation). It's a controversial topic that has garnered significant media attention and was the subject of an incident in Madrid this Thursday. While Rubiales was giving the presentation, a man in the audience interrupted the event by throwing eggs at him.

The Public Prosecutor's Office of the National Court has filed an appeal against the sentence by which the former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Luis Rubiales, following the non-consensual kiss on Jenni Hermoso in the World Cup final, was convicted of sexual assault and fined 10,800 euros. In the appeal, the deputy prosecutor, Marta Durántez, requests that the trial be declared null and void for both Rubiales and the other three defendants and that it be retaken, in such a way that evidence that was "unduly denied" to him is admitted and that he can ask the questions that were "and Manuel" to him.

Luis Rubiales, former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), was convicted of sexual assault. This is the important fact of the sentence made public yesterday by the magistrate José Manuel Fernández. Thanks to the courage and perseverance of Jenni Hermoso and the other players who have supported her, it has been judicially proven that the kiss was given without consent or acceptance by the player and, therefore, the act is criminally punishable. The magistrate has given all credibility to the player, and that is relevant because in this case, which has created so much media fuss, the victim's version had been called into question. It is exemplary, and it can help many other women in her situation that there is a clear recognition that it is a condemnable act.

The sentence has already been handed down in the Rubiales case. The National Court has sentenced the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) to an 18-month fine for kissing footballer Jenni Hermoso at the medal ceremony for the 2023 Women's World Cup won by the Spanish national team in Sydney (Australia). Thus, Rubiales will have to pay a fine of 20 euros per day for a crime of sexual assault that amounts to a total of 10,800 euros. In addition, he will be prohibited from approaching a radius of 200 meters from Hermoso and from communicating with her for a year.

He Trial of Luis Rubiales and three other former officials of the Spanish Football Federation –Jorge Vilda, Rubén Rivera and Albert Luque– for the non-consensual kiss on Jenni Hermoso has reached the eighth day of oral proceedings. After the statements of the accused and witnesses proposed by all parties, the lawyers representing those involved in the case have presented their final arguments to Judge Fernández-Prieto.

"I was wrong. I behaved like a successful athlete, like one of the group, and at that moment I should have been cold-blooded and played an institutional role. But that is why there is a crime, for nothing." This is how Luis Rubiales explained to the judge the kiss on the mouth that he gave Jenni Hermoso during the World Cup celebrations. Although he admitted that he "messed up", the man accused of sexual assault and coercion has limited his "mistake" to a slip of the tongue because he was the president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). In no case, Rubiales has stated, can the kiss on the lips of the Spanish national team player be considered sexual assault.

"I was wrong. I behaved like an athlete who achieves success, like one more of the group, and at that moment I should have been cold-blooded and played an institutional role. But that is why there is a crime, for nothing." This is how Luis Rubiales explained to the judge the kiss on the mouth he gave Jenni Hermoso during the celebration of the 2023 World Cup in Australia. Although he admitted that he "messed up", the man accused of sexual assault and coercion has limited his "mistake" to a slip of the tongue because he was the president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF). In no case, Rubiales has stated, can the kiss on the lips of the Spanish national team player be considered sexual assault.

There were 10 minutes to go in the final and the Barça players, on the bench, were already changing into their blue and red jerseys. Like Cruyff's players in 1992 at Wembley, Lluís Cortés's players wanted to lif the club's first women's Champions League dressed in their colours. On a historic night, which will be remembered for years to come as it will inspire generations, Barça overwhelmed their opponents. They had a chance to make history, and it did not go to waste. With exquisite football, Barça steamrolled Chelsea (0-4), winning their first Champions League title in a match which was very similar to the last final they played. In this case, however, Barça went from victims to executioners.