Luis Rubiales has been given a €10,800 (£8,935) positive and a restraining order after being found guilty of sexually assaulting Jennifer Hermoso after Spain’s World Cup win in 2023.
The previous president of the Spanish Football Federation kissed Hermoso without her consent during Spain’s celebrations.
‘I’m absolutely sure that she gave me her permission,’ Rubiales told the court in Madrid in the course of the trial.
‘In that moment it was something completely spontaneous.’
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