00:00In the summer of 2023, the behavior of Spanish soccer boss Luis Rubiales outraged the world
00:06as his unsolicited kiss of Spanish soccer star Jenny Hermoso after the 2023 World Cup final
00:13totally overshadowed Spain's historic victory. Rubiales resigned under pressure three weeks
00:19later. On Thursday, Spain's national court found Rubiales guilty of sexually assaulting Hermoso.
00:25He was ordered to pay more than $10,000 in fines and ordered to stay more than 200 meters away
00:31from Hermoso for the next year. Prosecutors want a prison time for Rubiales of up to two and a
00:36half years. Rubiales has always insisted that the kiss was consensual. He testified that he regretted
00:43the kiss, though he did not believe it constituted sexual assault. He could appeal this ruling.
00:48Hermoso testified that the incident, quote, stained one of the happiest moments of my life.
00:55I was kissing my boss and this does not happen or should not happen in any social and
01:02work environment. And at that moment I was still world champion, I ended up being
01:08world champion and it was a moment to continue enjoying, I was still drinking, I was still eating,
01:16I wanted to get drunk, I wanted to do what a footballer, a footballer does with such great joy
01:22Despite the closing of this ugly chapter in soccer history, those stains tend to last forever.
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