Luis Rubiales, the former head of the Spanish soccer federation, was convicted on Thursday of sexual assault for forcibly kissing a member of the women’s national team on the lips after winning the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
Mr. Rubiales’s kiss of the player, Jennifer Hermoso, set off a national scandal, deepened debates about longstanding sexism in Spanish soccer and became a watershed moment in Spain’s #MeToo movement.
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