Overview

• Hermoso, Spain’s all-time leading scorer, was omitted from the 23-player squad for the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 in Switzerland.
• Tomé said Hermoso’s exclusion followed a professional evaluation of her club performances alongside deep competition in attack, with no reference to the kissing incident.
• The 2023 incident in which then Spanish Football Association president Luis Rubiales kissed Hermoso without consent led to his three-year FIFA ban along with a February 2025 conviction for sexual aggression.
• Hermoso, who joined Club Tigres in Mexico after leaving FC Barcelona in 2022, was previously dropped from the national team following the scandal then reinstated for the 2024 Olympic Games.
• Tomé has begun rebuilding the national side after the 2024 Olympics with an emphasis on emerging forwards ahead of UEFA Women’s Euro 2025.