He has now written a book, “Kill Rubiales,” which he said on Thursday is “for those who want to know the reality.”<\/p>\n
The book launch, on Madrid’s Maria de Molina Street, was interrupted on Thursday evening when an individual threw three eggs at Rubiales as the former executive was being interviewed in front of an audience.<\/p>\n
Luis Rubiales speaks during an event promoting his new book in Madrid, Spain.\u00a0Francisco Guerra\/Europa Press via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Rubiales later said the man was his uncle.<\/p>\n
“He’s my uncle, his name is Luis Rub\u00e9n,” he said. “He’s a troublemaker and he’s unwell. I think he’s been arrested. We’ll see what we can do to prevent these things from happening again. It’s a shame”<\/p>\n
Video footage showed Rubiales attempting to confront the individual, who was removed from the premises by security staff.<\/p>\n
“I didn’t know what he had in his hands,” Rubiales told Radio Marca afterwards. “I thought he might have a gun … I wasn’t thinking about myself.”<\/p>\n
Another video clip showed a man being detained by police outside the venue.<\/p>\n
Rubiales’ appeal against his conviction — which saw him fined over \u20ac10,000, but acquitted of coercion charges — was dismissed by Spain’s High Court in June, although his lawyer subsequently said he would be appealing to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales had eggs thrown at him during an event to promote his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-290577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}