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THE URUGUAYAN PLAYERS DECIDED TO PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES

Chaos in the Copa América! Darwin and Ronald Araújo face Colombian fans in the stands

Published:11/07/2024 - 10:31h

Updated:11/07/2024 - 23:49h

The second semifinal of the Copa América 2024 left Colombia as the winner of the match, but the big news of the match came after the match ended when several Uruguayan players entered the stands to fight with Colombian fans

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The Glass America defined the morning of this Thursday to his second finalist, resulting Colombia like the winner of his duel in front of Uruguay. The party was full of intensity, especially in the second time, in which the cafeteros were always with a player less. But surely the big news of the party is being what came afterwards, when several Uruguayan players, between them Darwin Núñez and Ronald Araújo jumped to the terracing to confront with Colombian fans.

After the 90 minutes of the meeting of the semifinals, there was a clash between players of both selections, something reproduced in the terracing between followers of the two countries, but that quickly also began to involve to familiar of players charrúas. In front of this last situation, several celestial footballers decided to act, starring a battle campal that several minutes, even in front of the efforts of the police that finished being useless to separate to the involved.

The players of Uruguay have been very clear with his complaints

So much Núñez like Araújo were part of the players that decided to the terracing to involve in the fight between fans, while them llovían objects and drunk and tried to move away to his families of what sucedía. Another of the involved was José María Giménez, the one who after the sucedido ensured that "ojalá that those that are organising this have a bit more than care with the families, with the people and with the surroundings of the stadiums, because this is a disaster, because all the parties happens the same", said.

As they explain the Uruguayan players, had to jump to the grandstand to defend to his familiar that were being assaulted by the Colombian followers, ensuring besides that "our family ran danger and the police did not appear", declared Giménez. Besides, 'El País' of Montevideo informed that one of the people that finished seeing affected was Mabel Ugarte, the mother of the mediocampista Manuel Ugarte. There were moments of tension with the mother of the player of Paris Saint Germain, until it saw that it was a transitory fainting and without grave consequences of health.

Shortly after the sucedido, the Conmebol "condemned vigorously" the acts of violence in the football after the fight and could have a possible sanction to the players of Uruguay that decided to go up until the terracing. "There is not place for the intolerance and the violence inside and out of the field", affirmed the Conmebol in a communiqué in which it did not refer directly to the incidents occurred.