IA coach was shot in the shoulder during the game of the Argentine third division football. In the match between Huracan Las Heras and Ferro de General Pico on Sunday, the away team coach Mauricio Romero was hit, had to be treated and taken to hospital with a gunshot wound.
A video from the Argentine television channel Canal 3 La Pampa shows the players from both teams and the referees running from the field and fans hiding behind walls when shots were fired at the stadium in the province of Mendoza. The game was interrupted in the closing stages when the score was 3-1 for Huracan.
“Romero is fine and his life is out of danger,” said his club in a statement on Twitter: “After he left the stadium, he was examined in a local hospital and is now making a statement to the police.”
According to the Argentine media, an internal dispute between Huracan fans is said to have led to the incident. The home club sharply criticized those involved. “Families have been chased off the field for years,” said a post on Facebook: “May all those who harm the club stay away so that the real fans can return.”
The day before, Argentina’s football fans had shown their ties to commemorate the 61st birthday of their legend Diego Maradona. Former teammates took part in the tribute party with soccer game in the stadium “Diego Armando Maradona” in the La Paternal district of Buenos Aires.
Maradona died of a heart attack in November last year in a private residential complex north of Buenos Aires. He had been released from the hospital two weeks earlier, where he had undergone brain surgery. According to the public prosecutor’s office, serious mistakes were made in caring for the former world star. His personal doctor, his psychiatrist and several nurses are investigated for manslaughter.
Line-up for the game of legends on Maradona’s 61st birthday
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Barely a year after Maradona’s death, the Argentine government also declared the birthplace of the soccer star a national memorial last week. The relevant decree was published in the Official Journal on Wednesday. The simple house is located in the poor district of Villa Fiorito south of Buenos Aires. Maradona spent the first years of his life there. Today a mural with the portrait of Maradona adorns the facade of the house.
The soccer star never made a secret of his simple origins. He kept returning to Villa Fiorito, where his football career began on a dusty football field. “This is the place where I started dreaming,” he once said in an interview.
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