The previous head of Spain’s soccer federation was pelted with eggs thrown by his personal uncle as he launched a memoir detailing his fall from grace after kissing a feminine participant.
Luis Rubiales was compelled to rapidly spin away to keep away from no less than two of the eggs, with one splattering on a display close by.
Mr Rubiales instructed reporters: “A man entered, who I later saw was my uncle, who is a troubled man, and always has been.
“He had some eggs and threw some at me, however I did not know what he had in his palms, and once I first noticed him I believed he is likely to be carrying a weapon.”
When focused, he was launching his ebook, Matar A Rubiales (Killing Rubiales) – a 500-page account of his skilled demise.
The ex-boss’s woes started when he kissed Spanish ahead Jenni Hermoso, the staff’s captain, throughout the 2023 Ladies’s World Cup awards ceremony after she and her teammates had received the match.
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A girl walks previous graffiti painted on mattresses condemning Mr Rubiales. Pic: Reuters
Video footage of the incident, by which Mr Rubiales grabs her head and kisses her on the lips, sparked outrage.
Ms Hermoso insisted she had not given permission for the kiss and that Mr Rubiales had “stained one of the happiest days” of her life and “disrespected” her.
Mr Rubiales has at all times denied he kissed Ms Hermoso with out her consent.
He ultimately stepped down underneath immense stress from the federal government, soccer officers, ladies gamers and followers.
Earlier this yr, he was discovered responsible of sexual assault for the unsolicited kiss by a Spanish court docket, fined €10,800 (£9,206) and banned from going inside 200m of Ms Hermoso or contacting her for one yr.
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Jenni Hermoso, centre, celebrates Spain’s Ladies’s World Cup victory. Pic: AP
He later misplaced an enchantment in opposition to the conviction. The court docket mentioned he had managed to restrain himself when interacting with different gamers and “could also have done so, without too much effort, with the captain”.
In Matar A Rubiales, in keeping with its writer, the previous soccer federation boss claims to have been the sufferer of a “conspiracy of different powers of Spanish public life”, together with the federal government and “the profitable world of feminism”.
