Paris Saint-Germain manager Luis Enrique will be looking to repeat his decade-old glory at the Champions League when his team faces Inter Milan on May 31. Enrique, who guided a star-studded Barcelona to the European summit in 2015, is once again at the forefront as PSG meet the tactically brilliant Inter Milan in the final…
Luis Rubiales, the former head of Spain’s soccer federation, was convicted on Thursday of sexual assault for forcibly kissing a member of the women’s national team on the lips after the team won the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Mr. Rubiales’s kiss of the player, Jennifer Hermoso, set off a national scandal, deepened debates about longstanding…
Luis Rubiales, who resigned as Spain’s top soccer official after he forcibly kissed a player, testified at his sexual assault trial on Tuesday that he did so as a sign of affection in “a situation of extraordinary joy.” Mr. Rubiales has also been charged with coercion in connection with the episode, in which he pressed…
Jennifer Hermoso, the Spanish soccer star who was forcibly kissed by Luis Rubiales, her country’s former top soccer official, testified as his trial opened on Monday that he had “ruined one of the happiest days of my life” — her team’s victory in the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Ms. Hermoso described her horror at the…
When the president of the Spanish Football Federation kissed one of his national team’s players after they had won the 2023 Women’s World Cup, it was a moment that stunned the wider world. For the Spain forward Jenni Hermoso and her team-mates, that win should have been the highlight of their sporting lives. Spain had…