Published By: Aditya Maheshwari
Last Updated: October 30, 2023, 23:23 IST
London, United Kingdom (UK)
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has despatched “support and prayers” to Liverpool ahead Luis Diaz following the kidnapping of his mother and father in Colombia.
Diaz’s mom has been rescued however dozens of troopers, backed by police, are looking for his father.
“On behalf of FIFA and the global football community, I would like to extend our support and prayers to Luis Diaz, his family and his friends in these difficult times,” Infantino mentioned on Instagram.
The Colombia soccer federation has additionally issued an extra assertion on X, previously referred to as Twitter, demanding that these holding Diaz’s father launch him instantly, with out circumstances.
Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp mentioned after Sunday’s 3-0 dwelling win in opposition to Nottingham Forest that getting ready for the sport had been “the most difficult I’ve ever had in my life”.
“I didn’t expect that, I wasn’t prepared for it,” he added.
“I don’t want to make the game bigger than it was, but definitely we tried to help Luis with the fight we put in because obviously we want to help and we cannot really help.
“So the only thing we can do is fight for him and that’s what the boys did.”
Liverpool’s fifth straight dwelling Premier League win of the season moved them three factors behind leaders Tottenham.
Diaz, 26, who has made 11 appearances this season and scored three targets, didn’t function within the squad.
Diogo Jota held aloft Diaz’s quantity seven shirt after scoring in a tribute to his lacking teammate.
“How can you make a football game really important on a day like this? It’s really difficult. I’ve never struggled with that in my life,” Klopp mentioned.
“We heard late last night about it. We spoke to Luis, he wanted to go home. Then we got the news with his mum, which is fantastic, and since then nothing really.”
The Colombian military mentioned in a press release that it had arrange roadblocks and deployed two motorised platoons, unmanned plane, helicopters and a airplane with radar within the seek for Luis Manuel Diaz.
Colombian authorities didn’t present particulars in regards to the kidnapping, however media stories mentioned the participant’s father and mom, Cilenis Marulanda, have been taken Saturday by armed males on bikes at a fuel station of their dwelling city of Barrancas, within the northern La Guajira division.
President Gustavo Petro mentioned Marulanda was rescued in Barrancas hours later.
Colombia is a rustic simply rising from many years of civil battle between rival armed teams, with greater than 38,000 folks kidnapped, largely for ransom.
Petro, at an occasion to mark the beginning of native elections in Bogota, mentioned “all the public forces have been deployed” to discover Diaz’s father.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – AFP)
