The president of the Uruguayan Soccer Affiliation (AUF) has spoken out following the horrifying scenes involving Darwin Nunez after the nation’s Copa America semi-final defeat to Colombia in a single day.
The 1-0 scoreline paled into insignificance after a mass brawl erupted within the stands, with cameras capturing the Liverpool striker climbing into the fray as he sought to guard his household, who have been in shut proximity to the dysfunction.
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Talking after the gang hassle in Charlotte, Ignacio Alonso mentioned (by way of ESPN): “The Uruguayan gamers had an instinctive, pure response, which was to defend the youngsters who have been being attacked, their wives, mother and father, siblings. It was a pure, instinctive response that was rational given the occasions that have been going down.”
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Alonso is correct to defend the response from Nunez and his Uruguay teammates to the difficulty which had erupted within the stands.
When the gamers have been witnessing their households’ security being compromised by the loutish actions of some Colombian spectators, it’s solely pure that they’d leap straight in and confront the perpetrators, fairly than idly standing by and ready for the chaos to decrease.
There was footage of the Liverpool striker holding his toddler son after main him away from the violence, with an comprehensible look of worry written throughout each of their faces, and it was clear how a lot the dysfunction affected them.
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The Mirror talked about that Nunez might now face a ‘important ban’ for taking issues into his personal arms in Charlotte, which’d be farcical from the authorities contemplating the circumstances through which his paternal instincts took over.
Somewhat, the event organisers ought to be asking themselves why safety was so lax on the stadium that the Uruguay gamers felt a compulson to step in and intervene.
The scenes which marred the fixture in North Carolina are these we by no means need to see at a soccer match, or in society as an entire. We simply hope that those that have been innocently caught up within the chaos gained’t endure any lasting results from what occurred.
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