Jorge Vilda was sacked 10 days after Fifa suspended the former Spanish football federation’s president.
Jorge Vilda allegedly pressured Jenni Hermoso to put out a statement exonerating the Spanish football federation’s former president Luis Rubiales.
Judge Francisco de Jorge is investigating whether the kiss by the Royal Spanish Football Federation’s former president Luis Rubiales during the medal ceremony after Spain’s Women’s World Cup victory on Aug 20 – and his alleged subsequent efforts to pressure Hermoso to say it was consensual – constitute sexual abuse and coercion.
Originally, only Rubiales was under formal investigation, while other federation officials and players were called as witnesses. But De Jorge has now also put Vilda, who was the national team’s coach during the Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand that Spain clinched with a 1-0 victory against England, under investigation, a court statement said.
In addition, the judge changed the status of Albert Luque, the director of the men’s squad, and Ruben Rivera, the federation’s marketing chief, to “investigated” from previously being just witnesses.
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