Luis Rubiales, the man who was at the centre of a storm after kissing Spanish football team player Jenni Hermoso during the 2023 Women’s World Cup awards ceremony, was pelted by eggs by his own uncle while he was at an event to release his book “Matar a Rubiales” (Killing Rubiales). In Matar a Rubiales, the now former head of Spain’s soccer federation writes about his career spiralling after he was caught on camera kissing Hermoso during the 2023 Women’s World Cup awards ceremony. Spanish media outlets named the egg thrower as Luis Rubén Rubiales, an actor who has appeared in several domestic television shows. A video that has now gone viral shows Rubiales was seated on a stool at the book launch event when a man from the crowd throws three eggs in his direction. A news report of the incident in The Associated Press noted that one egg “impacted on the back of his dark jacket, and another splattered against a screen behind him as he charged into the small audience.” “A man …