Vélez Sarsfield fans attack players after team return from defeatDefender Jara: ‘They said they were going to shoot me in the legs’
The Uruguayan defender Diego Godín’s farewell match was marred by violence after his team, Vélez Sarsfield, lost to Huracan on Sunday, sparking a vicious attack by some of the Argentinian club’s fans on their team’s players in which they were assaulted at gunpoint.
When the team returned to their training camp at the Villa Olímpica Stadium hours after the match, they were accosted by groups of their own fans, as cars ambushed some of the players.
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