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What goes around comes back around. Emily Olsen here with Meg Linehan — welcome to Full Time!
Day in Court: Former president of Spanish football on trial
It was a moment that should have never happened.
While Spain’s players were lining up to accept their medals for winning the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, the president of the Spanish Football Federation kissed forward Jenni Hermoso.
In a win that should have highlighted a dominant tournament by Hermoso and her teammates, securing the country’s first Women’s World Cup, their achievements were instead overshadowed by the behavior of Luis Rubiales and those who enabled him.
The moment left onlookers stunned and the aftershocks have continued to ripple throughout Spain and the globe. In the three weeks following the incident:
- Hermoso was threatened with legal action by the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).
- Rubiales resigned (eventually).
- The team’s head coach Jorge Vilda was fired.
- Eighty-one Spanish players said they would refuse to represent their country.
And now, 533 days later, Rubiales stands trial, across 13 days in a Spanish court, for alleged sexual assault…
