The events would have occurred on Thursday and relatives of the teenager accuse a technician of having encouraged a group of regarding 15 young people to participate in the attack, this as punishment following being accused of stealing a pair of shoes.
Johanna Villalobos, mother of a 14-year-old minor, who is admitted to the La Serena hospital, denounced a beating that her son would have received by a group of players from the Cadetes de Coquimbo Unido series, causing him serious injuries.
According to his story, his son – who trains at the La Serena Soccer School – accompanied a friend to the Las Rosas Complex of the sports club, from where he had been called to try out.
Once in the place they would have left the backpacks in the dressing room and went out to the field. When practice was over, they came back and one of the boys started claiming that he was missing a pair of shoes. As a result, they emptied all the backpacks looking for them. “They asked my son to empty his and he did so immediately and a shoe fell out of it, which he says he never put in there”says the mother.
However, the worst came later. The minor told his mother that the cadet team technician told him: “You have three options: We call the cops, we make you a dark alley or you go to the dressing room and there… between all of us (we hit you). My son told them that he never put those shoes there, that he does not do those things and knelt down asking please not to do anything to him, while the three coaches were there. One of them pushed him, they lined up and started beating him mercilessly.”
The injuries he received were of such magnitude that once he arrived home, his mother took him to a health clinic, and he was later transferred to the La Serena hospital, where he remains hospitalized in serious condition. According to his mother, he has a damaged lung, liver and internal bleeding.
Faced with this situation, Francisco Varela, technical chief of the Coquimbo Unido youth soccer division, avoided giving details, but admitted that they are internally investigating what happened. “In order not to be mistaken in this, the club separated the coach who was in charge of the series and it will take five days to investigate more background, that there was a fact, there was, but the club is looking at it, “he said.
