AN INVESTIGATING judge has proposed Luis Rubiales should be tried over his kiss on the lips of Spain midfielder Jennifer Hermoso during the Women’s World Cup final medal ceremony last year, and has concluded the kiss was non-consensual.

The incident overshadowed Spain’s World Cup success in August and ultimately ended in Rubiales’ resignation as the president of the Spanish football federation (RFEF).

The judge, Francisco De Jorge, has proposed three other individuals should be tried along with Rubiales — including World Cup-winning former Spain head coach Jorge Vilda — for exerting pressure on Hermoso to say she had consented to the kiss.