The story of the shock and fear of Uruguayan families

Ronald Araujo The South American Football Confederation denounced him as one of the players who participated in Wednesday’s brawl in the semifinal between Colombia and Uruguay, played at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte. In total, there are eleven Uruguayan players who have been reported and must await the decision of the Conmebol Disciplinary Commission to know, ultimately, if they will be sanctioned or not, and if so, what kind of punishment they will receive. In addition to the eleven light blue players, a Uruguayan leader was also allowed. In the group of denounced footballers, also apart from Araujothis Josema Jiménez, Darwin Núñez, Matías Olivera, Sebastián CáceresBesides others.

Wednesday’s brawl was born out of Colombian fans inciting Uruguayan supporters and usually the footballers’ relatives in the stands behind the bench. Uruguay. Based on the attacks received by the players’ relatives, they jumped into the stands to try to defend their wives, children, fathers, mothers and other types of relatives stationed there. The situation went out of place, the police took a long time to react and when they wanted to agree it was a fight between several players, including Darwin Núñez, Ronald Araujo, Josema Jiménez, Matías Olivera or Facundo Pelistri along with Colombian fans. The other serious inconvenience that occurred was that the police took at least 10 minutes to open a small gate through which access was allowed to a staircase of no more than twelve steps connecting the stands to the field of playing If that little door had been activated earlier, family members would have been quickly evacuated from the playground and the situation would have been decongested. As this did not happen, pressure was created in the stands, where disturbances increased, with spotlights everywhere and punches between light blue players, between some light blue Colombian players and fans. When the family members accessed the field of play, this journalist who was on the field, observing everything that was happening no more than ten meters away from the stands, saw faces of fear, of fear, in some of the wives of the players They lifted their children in their arms and tried to escape from everything that was happening in the stands. The panicked faces, the fear on the face, the cries, I swear I will never forget them. After about half an hour, the situation began to normalize when finally all the family members, including all the players, including all the leaders and part of the Uruguayan coaching staff were contained on the field of play and outside of the range of stands. . It must be recognized that, although they are professional players, there is a legitimate defense and an action that any father, son or husband could take if they saw what they saw, what these players saw, that their family member was attacked. It should also be said that after the act of self-defense there are some excesses, such as Darwin Nuñez trying to throw a chair into the stands, or Rodrigo Betancourtanother of the reported footballers, who threw a glass into the stands causing a cut to the Uruguayan physical trainer’s scalp, Santiago Ferro. It is rare to see a fight like the other day in Charlotte, the Conmebol Disciplinary Commission opened a disciplinary file with a complaint against eleven Uruguay players and a leader who was in one of the stadium boxes. The situation is not easy for the players and they are exposed to the penalties of several games, which they must follow in the South American Qualifiers which are fully contested. So far 6 games have been played and there are 12 left to play. One of the footballers with the greatest active participation in the stands is certainly Barça. Ronald Araujo.

The AUF President said exactly what bystanders saw. Woman gasping for air coming down from the stand to the playground, children in their arms with fear on their faces, the mother of Manuel Ugartewho passed out in the middle of the playground, the son of Sergio Rochet, that he was taken by a close friend of the team to a high place in the stands to remove him from the source of confusion and that when the situation with his father calmed down a bit, the Uruguayan looked for him and could not find him. minutes, causing the fear any parent has when they can’t find their child right away. Some women cried for at least half an hour because the state of panic and fear was impossible to get rid of. It was an almost scary night. But now what is important is that the Conmebol Disciplinary Commission has opened this file and eleven Uruguayan players are subject to its strictures. And it will certainly change the progress of the South American qualifiers for Uruguay in the coming dates and may even influence the next world championship, to the extent that the coach Marcelo Bielsa It certainly won’t have many starters for some dates, thus hampering the team’s preparation for the next 2026 World Cup.