2023-11-18 00:57:03
The Sports Administrative Court (TAD), like FIFA did just over two weeks ago, sanctioned Luis Rubiales with three years of disqualification this Friday, so he will not be able to hold any position or carry out any related activity during this time. with football. The former president of the Spanish Football Federation (FEF) already announced that he would go to the ordinary courts in the event that he was punished by the TAD for the kiss he gave to Jenni Hermoso and his obscene gestures in the box after the Women’s World Cup final. in Sydney, calling his proposed three-year penalty “unfair” and “disproportionate.”
Accused of sexual assault on Jenni Hermoso and coercion of the Madrid soccer player and her entourage, according to Iusport, the former Granada leader received this Friday the expected three-year sanction from the TAD, the same highest sports court in Spain that prevented the Government from suspending Rubiales provisionally and then disqualifying him by considering only his non-consensual kiss as “serious” and not “very serious.” The exemplary TAD sanction to Rubiales – a year and a half for the kiss and another year and a half for his behavior in the box – was proposed by the investigating judge of said organization (Alfonso Ramos), who opened a disciplinary file against the former president of the FEF on last September 1 for attacking sporting dignity and decorum. Rubiales will respond to the TAD by criminal means after having confirmed after the previous disqualification from FIFA that he will go “to the last instance so that justice is done and the truth shines forth.”
Rubiales unsuccessfully petitioned the TAD for the archiving and dismissal of his file and regretted in his brief of allegations that his case, which broke out on August 30 in Sydney, was “very good” for a “radicalized sector” of Spanish politics. “The fleeting kiss on the lips was consensual, and anyone who says otherwise is breaking the truth,” insists the former president of the FEF, who denounces the “lynching” to which he is being subjected and the “bestial theatricalization” of the scandal. He even recently recalled a “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.
“inappropriate” gesture
In his opinion, the sanctions that the TAD finally imposed “do not correspond” with the reasoning in the rest of the text of the proposed resolution, since they appeared “disconnected” and projected an “arbitrary” and “unjustified” request. Rubiales recalled in his letter of allegations to the TAD that, in the worst case, his sanction should be a warning, a fine or a disqualification of three or six months, but not until the end of 2026, after having been forced to resign ( on September 10) as president of the FEF due to the social and political pressure that cried out against his sexist attitude and alleged abuse of authority towards Jenni Hermoso. His gesture of touching his genitals in the box of the Sydney stadium a few meters from Queen Letizia and Infanta Sofía, which Rubiales acknowledged was “inappropriate” although he said it was directed at the then coach Jorge Vilda, also went around the world. , to put him in the international spotlight.
The man from Granada, in his appeal, also denounced the “permeability” and “influence” of media pressure and the political powers of the TAD. At the same time, he announced that it would be “serving him on a plate” to go to the criminal jurisdiction in case a sanction was carried out for the events that occurred after the World Cup that have tarnished the image of Spain and shaken the foundations of the FEF, now presided over by Pedro Rocha, until the holding of elections in the first quarter of 2024.
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