The president of the Spanish football federation Luis Rubiales has said he will resign three weeks after he forcibly kissed a triumphant Spanish women’s footballer after the team won the World cup.
Rubiales has until now steadfastly refused to resign after the incident in the aftermath of the Spanish side’s triumph on 20 August.
Last week Jenni Hermoso, the midfielder who was kissed by the 46-year-old, filed a complaint against him for sexual assault.
On Friday it was followed by a prosecutor filing a complaint with Spain’s high court against the man who has been at the top of Spanish football’s domestic organisation for five years.
It said that there could be grounds to charge him with sexual assault as well as coercion.
Rubiales, who saw out his unremarkable playing career with three games in Scotland, told Piers Morgan that he would step down.
He said: “I cannot continue my work. My father, my daughters, I spoke with them.
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“They know it is not a question about me, some friends very close to me, and they say to me, ‘Luis, now you have to focus on your dignity and to continue your life. Probably you are going to damage people you love.”’