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Luis Rubiales was pelted with eggs by his own uncle as the former head of Spain’s football federation presented a memoir late Thursday about his fallout after kissing a player at the 2023 Women’s World Cup.
Rubiales was sitting on a stool on a low platform when he quickly turned and walked toward her to avoid at least two of the eggs. As he walked towards the small audience, one splashed the screen behind him.
“A man came in, who I later saw was my uncle, who is a troubled man and has always been troubled,” Rubiales told reporters. “He had some eggs and he threw some at me, but I didn’t know what he had in his hand, and when I first saw him I thought maybe he had a weapon.”
His book “Matar a Rubiales” (Killing Rubiales) is a 500-page version of his professional demise after the kiss. spain Ahead jenny hermoso During the 2023 Women’s World Cup awards ceremony.
According to its publisher, Rubiales says he was the victim of a “conspiracy of various powers”. Spanish public life” including government and the “profitable world of feminism”.
Rubiales has always denied that he kissed Hermoso without her consent. After initially clinging to power amid national turmoil, he stepped down under intense pressure from the government, football officials, female players and fans.
Earlier this year, a Spanish court found him guilty of sexual assault for an unwanted kiss.
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