Former Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales had eggs thrown at him during a book launch in Madrid on Thursday, an attack he said was carried out by his uncle.

Rubiales, 48, was presenting his new book "Matar a Rubiales" (Killing Rubiales) at the Espacio Eventize media room in Madrid when a man in the audience began hurling eggs.

"It was my uncle, my blood uncle, who is a troublemaker and always has been," Rubiales told Radio MARCA.

"He came in with some eggs and threw them at me, but I didn't know what he had in his hands, and when I saw him burst in, I thought he was carrying a gun."

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