Vanessa Chica, the mother of the 17-year-old soccer player attacked by a rival last Saturday in Villaverde del Río (Seville), has asked today that violence in soccer be stopped, especially in lower categories, since her son “could be “dead” after being brutally beaten. The minor had to be admitted to the Virgen Macarena hospital in Seville after receiving two punches in the face and a kick to the head that left him unconscious at the end of a soccer match in Villaverde del Río, allegedly by a player. from the opposing team, an 18-year-old young man.
The events occurred last Saturday at the end of the youth match between Juventud Deportiva Bormujos and Unión Deportiva Villaverde, a local team, when the minor was heading to the locker room and suffered the attack that left him unconscious on the floor.
In an interview with EFE at her home in Bormujos (Seville), Vanessa Chica explained that her son suffered “two punches in the face that knocked him down, and on the ground she kicked him that left him unconscious.” “When we reached him his eyes were blank. I thought they had killed him,” she added. “My son was lucky that there was a person there who had taken a first aid course a few days before and was able to give him first aid,” so about three minutes later he came to, “although he doesn’t remember anything that happened.” passed”.
Half an hour after the event, an ambulance from 061 arrived and took him to the Virgen Macarena, a “very complicated journey, because he vomited several times”, until he arrived at the hospital and was treated in the emergency room, from where he was discharged at dawn at noon. appreciate the CT that serious injuries were performed, but with the warning to return to the emergency room immediately if he had serious symptoms.
Vanessa Chica has regretted that these cases occur and that the violence is not nipped in the bud in the clubs, while pointing out that the family of the alleged aggressor has not contacted her, although the mayor of Villaverde del Río, José María Martín, who has transmitted to him the love of the town. “The mayor of Bormujos -Lola Romero- already called me early in the morning and was aware of everything.”
The team of the attacked minor has issued a statement in which they describe it as “incomprehensible that this continues to happen”, that “some 16-17 year old kids have to see these types of acts”, and criticizes that “the referee of the match leaves without leaving anything reflected in the minutes and without even being interested in what happened at that moment. In reference to the alleged aggressor, he trusts that “he will receive his punishment, and that the Federation will take the measures they deem appropriate so that these types of acts do not happen again.”
The local team, for its part, has said that it will ensure “the safety of the game, and the pertinent measures will be taken to avoid and report these events that tarnish this beautiful sport”, a message of condemnation that the minor’s family has thanked. The footballer is under surveillance in his house, recovering, without his parents being able to get the image of his son “unconscious on the floor, thinking that they had killed him” out of their minds.
For its part, the Civil Guard has confirmed that the alleged aggressor is being investigated for an alleged crime of injuries and is fully identified. The investigation, coordinated as a result of the procedures carried out by the Civil Guard of Villaverde del Río, is led by a court in the neighboring town of Lora del Río, which is expected to call the parties to testify in the coming days.
