Luis Manuel Díaz Jiménez abducted in late OctoberColombia are due to play against Brazil on Thursday
The Liverpool player Luis Díaz has been reunited with his father, who was kidnapped in northern Colombia by a unit of a guerrilla group in late October and released last week.
Photographs posted on the Colombian Football Federation’s account on X, formerly Twitter, captured the striker and his father, Luis Manuel Díaz Jiménez, hugging each other. With the message “Welcome home Luchooo”, the Federation announced the arrival of the elder Díaz to Barranquilla, where the Colombian national team is set to play against Brazil on Thursday.
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