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Images show Spanish police leaving the headquarters of the country's football federation (RFEF) and other locations, following searches conducted as part of an investigation into alleged corruption and other crimes, judicial sources say. According to Spanish media, the operation is part of a court proble into contracts signed by former RFEF chief Luis Rubiales to take Spanish Super Cup matches to Saudi Arabia. IMAGES
Luis Rubiales leaves Spanish court after World Cup kiss scandal appearence. IMAGES. TO COMPLETE VIDEOS 33V38HR and 33V823P
Images show the exterior of the Andalusia church where the mother of Spain's football chief Luis Rubiales is on hunger strike. Angeles Bejar is taking the action in support of her son, who is under fire for planting an unsolicited kiss on the lips of player Jenni Hermoso after Spain won the Women's World Cup in Australia on August 20. IMAGES
Spanish sports secretary Victor Francos says that the forced kiss affair was the "#MeToo of Spanish football", a few hours after Luis Rubiales refused to resign as president of the Spanish Football Association. SOUNDBITE
The 2022 Fifa World Cup one-year countdown clock is unveiled at a ceremony in Doha, with FIFA President Gianni Infantino and English football legend David Beckham attending. IMAGES
Gianni Infantino was re-elected by acclamation for a second term as FIFA president at the Congress of world football's governing body in Paris on Wednesday. The 49 year-old, who took charge of FIFA in February 2016 after the departure of the disgraced Sepp Blatter, stood unopposed for re-election for a new four-year term which will run until 2023. IMAGES