“If he speaks, I can’t,” Hermoso said during her testimony. She had been speaking for two hours and, while doing so, she could hear Rubiales whispering and commenting on what the player was ...

On Monday, women's World Cup winner Jenni Hermoso testified at the trial of Luis Rubiales that she did not consent to the kiss and that she felt coerced to publicly exonerate him after the incident.

She will have to live with that forever. “Since that day, my life has been on standby,” Hermoso said during her testimony in Rubiales’ trial at Spain’s High Court in Madrid in early February.

Prosecutors alleged that the four officials pressured Hermoso to say the kiss was consensual, which Rubiales testified in court last week while admitting that the kiss was a “mistake.” ...