Soon after Spain won the FIFA Women’s World Cup, the celebration turned into outrage when Spanish Football Federation chief Luis Rubiales kissed Spanish player Jenni Hermoso on the lips without her consent. Prompted by criticism in Spain and beyond, Rubiales recorded a non-apology apology during a stopover in Doha. His team also put out a statement from Hermoso saying the kiss had been consensual and shouldn’t distract from the team’s victory. But those were not Hermoso’s words. Rubiales’ team had made them up. Spaniards learnt about the coverup from Natalia Torrente, an experienced football reporter from sports news site Relevo. She revealed two crucial things: that Hermoso never said the words in the statement and that she refrained from helping Rubiales, who pressed her to appear in the video in which he apologised. Torrente’s exclusive story put further pressure on the Spanish football chief, who was suspended by FIFA in late August and resigned from his position two weeks later.
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