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Spain star Jennifer Hermoso submits official complaint against Luis Rubiales over unwanted kiss

By George Ramsay, Pau Mosquera and Claudia Rebaza, CNN (CNN) — Spanish star player Jennifer Hermoso has filed an official complaint with prosecutors against the president of the country’s soccer federation, Luis Rubiales, over an unwanted kiss after the Women’s World Cup final. The complaint was filed on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Spanish prosecutor’s

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Former Spain women’s coach Jorge Vilda calls his firing ‘unfair’ and ‘unexpected’

By Homero De la Fuente, CNN (CNN) — Spain’s former women’s national team coach Jorge Vilda called his sacking “unfair” on Tuesday and addressed why he clapped at Luis Rubiales’ assembly as fallout from the beleaguered soccer chief’s unwanted World Cup kiss continues. In an interview with Spanish sports radio program ”El Larguero” on Cadena SER,

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Fan ejected from US Open match after shouting former German national anthem phrase associated with Hitler

By George Ramsay, CNN (CNN) — A fan was ejected from a match at the US Open on Monday, organizers said, after German player Alexander Zverev complained about hearing the individual use a since-removed phrase from the German national anthem, which Germany reinterpreted as a call for Nazi superiority during World War II. During the fourth set of

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