London | FIFA, the soccer world’s governing body, said on Saturday (Sunday AEST) that it had provisionally suspended Luis Rubiales, president of Spain’s soccer federation, amid an investigation that he forcibly kissed player Jennifer Hermoso after Spain’s Women’s World Cup victory last Sunday.
In a statement, FIFA said Rubiales would be suspended “from all football-related activities” at national and international levels for an initial period of 90 days, starting on Saturday. The body also ordered both Rubiales and the soccer federation he chairs to refrain from contacting Hermoso, a star forward on Spain’s winning national team.
