Spanish football federation fires controversial women’s coach Vilda
Luis Rubiales’ kiss has led to the sacking of manager Jorge Vilda, inset (BBC/AFP/Getty)
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Gabon coup, Prigozhin's legacy, Spanish football scandal, Venice Film Festival
Guess who paid a call on coup leaders who have left their border open with Niger? Russia's Deputy Defence Minister Yunus-bek Yevkurov was in Burkina Faso on Thursday to offer his services to junta leader Ibrahim Traoré. It's the same Yevkurov who was in Libya simultaneously with Yevgeny Prigozhin's final tour of Africa. On that score, the Grey Zone Telegram channel Thursday published images of the late Wagner Group leader.
Furore over Spanish football kiss grows as prosecutors launch probe against FA boss
Spain's High Court prosecutor on Monday opened a preliminary investigation into whether national football chief Luis Rubiales might have committed an act of sexual aggression when he grabbed player Jenni Hermoso and kissed her on the lips after Spain's victory in the women's World Cup.
Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales's mother on hunger strike over her son's treatment
A week after Luis Rubiales, the president of the Spanish Football Federation, kissed Spain's Jenni Hermoso at the Women's World Cup awards ceremony, his reputation is in tatters and his future hangs in the balance.
The Kiss: 'I will not resign!' says Spanish football chief Rubiales over 'consensual peck'
Spanish football chief Luis Rubiales refused to resign on Friday after a week of widespread criticism for his unsolicited kiss on the lips of player Jenni Hermoso following Spain's Women's World Cup triumph.
Suspended Luis Rubiales 'Damaging Image' Of Spanish Football: Andres Iniesta
Spanish football legend Andres Iniesta on Sunday added to mounting criticism of the country's suspended federation president Luis Rubiales, saying his forced kiss with Jenni Hermoso after the women's World Cup final was "damaging the image" of Spanish football. "After what has happened this week I would like to convey my sadness as a person, as a father of three daughters, as a husband and as a footballer" at what has happened around "our football and around the Spanish women's national team", Iniesta wrote on his social networks. "I believe that we cannot tolerate actions like the ones we have seen, which have tarnished such a great milestone as winning a World Cup," added the scorer of the goal against the Netherlands in the 2010 men's final, which gave Spain their first World Cup.
Fifa provisionally suspends Spanish football president Rubiales
Fifa's Disciplinary Committee said on Saturday it has provisionally suspended Luis Rubiales, president of the Spanish soccer federation, amid uproar after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips after Spain's victory in the Women's World Cup.
FIFA suspend Spanish football chief Rubiales over Hermoso kiss
FIFA suspended Luis Rubiales as president of Spain's football federation on Saturday for kissing Spanish Women's World Cup player Jenni Hermoso on the lips, and banned him from making contact with her.