{"id":458782,"date":"2023-09-11T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458782"},"modified":"2023-09-11T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T20:40:13","slug":"rubiales-resigns-as-spanish-fa-president-after-kiss-gate-scandal","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rubiales-resigns-as-spanish-fa-president-after-kiss-gate-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubiales resigns as Spanish FA president after &#8216;kiss-gate&#8217; scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Rubiales has stepped down as president of the Spanish Football Federation following the infamous incident with Jenni Hermoso at the World Cup final.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 BREAKING: Luis Rubiales has resigned as RFEF President <\/p>\n<p>As well as resigning from his his vice-president position in UEFA <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nb2cDXLlbU\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Nb2cDXLlbU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Alex Ibaceta (@alexibaceta23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexibaceta23\/status\/1700961887700000952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The 46-year-old kissed Hermoso on the lips, which she later claimed was not consensual and filed a legal complaint for sexual assault on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Luis Rubiales has sensationally resigned as President of the Royal Spanish Football Federation following the scandal over him kissing Spain\u2019s Jenni Hermoso at the Women\u2019s World Cup Final. He revealed the news in a world exclusive interview for \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PiersUncensored?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@PiersUncensored<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Kl2uQTOzqv\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Kl2uQTOzqv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/piersmorgan\/status\/1700957864557191370?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 10, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rubiales released a statement, where he revealed he has submitted his resignation to the federation acting president Pedro Rocha.<\/p>\n<p>He has also stepped down from his position as vice-president of UEFA executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the quick suspension carried out by Fifa, plus the rest of open proceedings against me, it is evident that I will not be able to return to my position,&#8221; Rubiales&#8217; statement read.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Insisting on waiting and holding on is not going to contribute to anything positive, neither to the federation nor to Spanish football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales continued to defend himself by claiming the kiss was &#8216;mutual&#8217; and &#8216;consensual&#8217;, but after his provisional suspension carried out by FIFA, it was more or less inevitable he would loose his job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Rubiales has stepped down as president of the Spanish Football Federation following the infamous incident with Jenni Hermoso at the World Cup [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":456331,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21128,21056],"news_category":[14236,14235],"gn_keywords":[21129,21058],"acf":{"announce":"The 46-year-old finally steps down after weeks of heavy scrutiny and criticism","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458782"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458784,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458782\/revisions\/458784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458782"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458782"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}