Well, here's a headline for you.

Headline reads, court upholds assault conviction for Spain's ex-Soccer Chiefs World Cup Kiss.

Interesting.

I have never heard this story.

It feels like something I should have heard, but I've never heard this.

Spain's high court on Wednesday, June 25th, upheld a verdict that found former soccer

Federation President Luis Rubiales guilty of sexual assault for an unsolicited kiss

on the lips of a national team player, Ginny Hermoso, at the 2003 World Cup in Sydney.

The court rejected multiple appeals against the conviction, reaffirming Rubialis's

kissed Hermoso without her consent during the medal ceremony after Spain's women had won the

trophy. He was fined over 10,000 euros, which is about $11,592 American, and acquitted of coercion charges alongside three co-defendants.

Prosecutors have sought two and a half years in prison and called for a retrial, both of

which were dismissed. The incident sparked widespread debate about sexism in Spanish society

and women's football, fueling momentum for the

Me Too movement in the country.

He argued that his actions were motivated by an uncontrollable joy, but the court ruled that

his restraint with other players and attendees demonstrated that he could have avoided

such behavior with Hermoso.

Quote, since the emotion did not lead him to express his joy so effusively by kissing

the other players or the accompanying persons in the box, and he restrained himself, he could

have also done so without too much effort with the captain of the team.

I kind of agree.

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