Luis Díaz sat at home as Liverpool beat Nottingham Forest on Sunday afternoon. He was waiting for news about his father being kidnapped. Now the police in Colombia are out with a photo of the father.
– We all want everything to go well. The only thing we can do is fight for “our brothers” and that’s what we did, Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp said after the match. Athletics.
The Liverpool striker’s parents were kidnapped on Saturday. According to Colombian authorities, this incident occurred in Barrancas in the La Guajira district in the north of the country.
On Sunday evening Norwegian time, police came out with two photos of Luis Manuel Díaz Jimenez’s father, along with the promise of a reward.
The mother, Cilenis Marulanda, has been released. He shouldn’t be hurt. But the father is still missing. The two were said to have been taken by armed men on motorbikes.
More than 120 soldiers will now take part in the hunt for the father, who has been missing for more than 24 hours, El Tiempo newspaper wrote.
– We are desperate. We don’t know anything about him, Díaz’s uncle, Luis Manuel Díaz, told the AFP news agency.
According to El Tiempo, Díaz’s father worked as an amateur coach at a soccer school in his hometown of Barrancas, a city of less than 40,000 people.
Colombian national teammate James Rodríguez, who has played for Real Madrid among others, told the Semana newspaper that he supported Díaz.
– Please, there are more important things than football matches. What kind of society do we live in? he asked according to the newspaper Semana.
Luis Días did not play as Liverpool beat Nottingham Forest 3-0 at Anfield on Sunday. The Athetic wrote that Díaz was at his home in Crosby, north of the city.
After the win, there was a very simple celebration, wrote The Athletic.
The reason is, last Sunday afternoon, the police promised that tips leading to the rescue of Díaz’s father would be rewarded with a reward of 200 million pesos. This is equivalent to NOK 540,000.
Díaz was at the Liverpool players’ hotel, the Hotel Titanic, with the rest of the team when he learned on Saturday night that his parents had been kidnapped in his home country.
– We have people who came home with him, and who took care of him. There were also family members with him. They want to be together, and that’s completely understandable, Klopp said, reports The Athletic.
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