Eggs thrown at Ex-Spanish soccer boss who kissed player

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Luis Rubiales was pelted by eggs thrown by his ain uncle erstwhile the erstwhile caput of Spain's shot federation was presenting a memoir precocious Thursday relating his downfall aft kissing a player astatine the 2023 Women's World Cup.

Rubiales was seated connected a stool connected a debased signifier erstwhile helium jumped up and spun rapidly trying to debar 3 eggs hurled his way. One impacted connected the backmost of his acheronian jacket, and different splattered against a surface down him arsenic helium charged into the tiny audience.

"A antheral entered who I aboriginal saw was my uncle, who is simply a troubled man, and ever has been," Rubiales told reporters. "He had immoderate eggs and threw immoderate astatine me, but I didn't cognize what helium had successful his hands, and erstwhile I archetypal saw him I thought helium mightiness beryllium carrying a weapon."

Spanish media reported that the uncle was Luis Rubén Rubiales, an histrion who has appeared successful respective home tv shows.

Spanish constabulary told The Associated Press they arrested the ovum thrower. No motive was instantly fixed for the incident. A video shows a radical of men successful the assemblage grabbing the uncle instantly aft helium launched the eggs and escorting him away.

Rubiales besides had a falling retired with different uncle, Juan Rubiales, respective years agone erstwhile Juan was moving for him astatine the federation.

His publication "Matar a Rubiales" (Killing Rubiales) is simply a 500-page mentation of his nonrecreational demise aft kissing Spain guardant Jenni Hermoso during the 2023 Women's World Cup awards ceremony. It was the archetypal clip Spain's women's squad took location the title. According to its publisher, Rubiales says helium was the unfortunate of a "conspiracy of antithetic powers of Spanish nationalist life" including the authorities and "the profitable satellite of feminism."

Rubiales has ever denied helium kissed Hermoso without her consent. After initially clinging to power amid a nationalist uproar, helium stepped down nether immense pressure from the government, shot officials, women players and fans.

Earlier this twelvemonth helium was found guilty of intersexual battle for the unsolicited kiss by a Spanish court. He was fined implicit $11,000 and ordered not to travel wrong 650 feet of Hermoso oregon interaction her for a year. Prosecutors had pushed for him to walk implicit 2 years successful prison. Rubiales was acquitted of a abstracted complaint that alleged helium and different officials pressued Hermoso to enactment him successful the aftermath of the kiss.

Hermoso testified successful tribunal that Rubiales' actions "tarnished" what should person been "one of the happiest days" of her life.

"I'd spent years warring to triumph titles for my team, similar the World Cup," she said. "But each that's happened to maine means that I conscionable haven't been capable to bask immoderate of it from the infinitesimal I acceptable ft backmost successful Madrid. I'm a satellite champion, but it seems that, adjacent to this day, my beingness has been connected standby. I honestly haven't been capable to unrecorded freely."

Rubiales, 48, is besides nether scrutiny by Spanish authorities probing his 2020 woody to determination the Spanish Super Cup to Saudi Arabia.