Luis Rubiales, former president of Spain’s Royal Football Federation, was attacked by a man who threw an egg at him while presenting his book in Madrid on Thursday. Defeat RubialesSo he reflects on the incident that led to him resigning as president of the Royal Football Federation after kissing Jennifer Hermoso without her consent. A man burst in, shouting “Simberguenza” and threw two eggs, but Rubiales was able to avoid them. The assailant was subdued and removed from the room, but the incident continued without incident.
Rubiales, who attacked the attacker but was stopped by participants at the event, later explained why he had tried to defend himself. “Luckily they stopped me. I don’t know if I had a weapon or something. I saw a pregnant woman with two small children. I thought about the children. If I caught him, we would be in a different situation now. I was very scared. They are my friends. We all grew up together, so I was very scared. I don’t care if they throw eggs at me,” he stressed.
In the aforementioned book, Mr. Rubiales explains his version of the events that led to his categorical conviction by the national court and the circumstances that led to his resignation. He defended his “supportive policies for women’s football” as having taken him to the top of world sport, and suggested the government, FIFA president Gianni Infantino, La Liga president Javier Tebas and “the world” were working together. woke upHe has accused “the biggest conspiracy in the history of Spanish football” of “concocted” lies to classify him as “corrupt in society”.
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