“I thought they killed him”

Vanessa Woman, the mother of a 17-year-old soccer player attacked of a rival on Saturday, Villaverde del Río (Seville), asked today to stop violence in football, especially in the lower categories since his son. “maybe dead” after the brutal beating this weekend.

The minor had to be admitted to the Virgen Macarena hospital in Seville after being admitted two punches to the face and a kick to the head that left him unconscious at the end of a soccer game in Villaverde del Río, allegedly by a player from the opposing team, an 18-year-old young man.

The events took place on Saturday at the end of the youth match between Juventud Deportiva Bormujos and Unión Deportiva Villaverde, a local team, when the minor was going to the locker room and suffered an attack that left him unconscious on the ground.

In an interview with EFE at her home in Bormujos (Seville), Vanessa Chica explained that her son suffered “two blows to the face that knocked him down, and on the ground he kicked him unconscious,” until ” When we reached his height he already had it eyes rolled. I thought they killed him“.

“My son is lucky that there is someone there who has done a course of first aid a few days before and was able to give him first aid”, so after about three minutes he came, “although he had no recollection of what had happened.

About half an hour after the event, an ambulance arrived from 061 and took him to the Virgen Macarena, a “very complicated journey, because threw up several times“, until he arrived at the hospital and was treated in the emergency room, where he was discharged at dawn because the CT scan did not show serious injuries, but with a warning to return to the emergency room immediately if he had severe symptoms.

Vanessa Chica regrets that these cases and the violence happened don’t nip yourself in the bud with clubswhile pointing out that the family of the alleged aggressor did not contact him, although the mayor of Villaverde del Río, José María Martín, conveyed to him the love of the people, “and the mayor of Bormujos – Lola Romero – who called me early in the morning and si all pending”.

The group of the assaulted minor released a release where he describes it as “incomprehensible that this continues to happen”, that “some children of 16-17 years old have to see these kinds of acts”, and criticizes that “the referee of the match is left without leaving anything visible in the minute and not even interested in what happened at that moment.

Referring to the alleged aggressor, he is confident that “he will have his punishment, and that the Federation is taking steps which they think is appropriate to prevent these types of acts from happening again.”

The local team, for its part, said it would ensure “the safety of the game, and will take appropriate steps to prevent and report these incidents that destroy this beautiful sport”, a message of condemnation thanked by the family of the minor.

The footballer is under surveillance at home, recuperating, without his parents getting “the image of our son unconscious on the floor in their minds,” they thought they killed him.”

For its part, the Civil Guard has confirmed what is being said aggressor is being investigated for an alleged crime of damages and fully met.

The investigation, coordinated as a result of procedures carried out by the Civil Guard of Villaverde del Río, is presided over by a court in the nearby town of Lora del Rio, The parties are expected to be called to testify in the coming days.