{"id":458943,"date":"2023-09-12T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458943"},"modified":"2023-09-12T17:52:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:52:14","slug":"rubiales-must-testify-in-spain-court","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/rubiales-must-testify-in-spain-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubiales must testify in Spain court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-RFEF president, Luis Rubiales, must give his thoughts at Spain&#8217;s National Court on Friday on allegations of sexual assault and coercion.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors filed a lawsuit against the president \u2013 who decided to resign from his post last weekend. The reason was his unsolicited kiss on \u00a0Jennifer Hermoso&#8217;s lips after Spain\u2019s World Cup triumph in August.<\/p>\n<p>A judge took the case yesterday and today summoned Luis to give his version and defend himself on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: Luis Rubiales, the former president of Spain&#8217;s soccer federation, has been ordered to give testimony to a Spanish judge investigating his kiss of a player at the Women&#8217;s World Cup. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Rtt6xn9HnW\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/Rtt6xn9HnW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SkySportsNews\/status\/1701577892960821452?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Except for the sexual assault charges, the former president could be found guilty of coercion as he pressured the Spain forward and her camp to share that she doesn\u2019t mind what happened, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Rubiales, given a 3-month suspension as a president of RFEF, decided to resign on Sunday as he will also leave his position as vice president in UEFA. Despite the resignation, Luis still claims that the kiss was after consent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-RFEF president, Luis Rubiales, must give his thoughts at Spain&#8217;s National Court on Friday on allegations of sexual assault and coercion. Prosecutors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":458944,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21056,17096],"news_category":[137,14235,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[21058,21161],"acf":{"announce":"The former president of the Spanish Football Federation was summoned to testify.","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\/458943"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458943"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458947,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458943\/revisions\/458947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458943"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458943"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}