Moments of tension would have been experienced during the training of the peruvian national team on Friday in Barcelona ahead of the friendly match on Sunday June 5 once morest New Zealand. The reason would have been an altercation between Christian Cueva and the journalist Silvio Valencia.
As reported by Valencia himself, the Al Fateh player would have verbally assaulted him saying: “Take off your cap, blowtorch”.
In a video broadcast by the Sports YouTube account on Best Radio you can see the moment when Cueva tells him “blowtorch” to Valencia who reacts by saying: “you like me a lot”. This caused the annoyance of other players of the selection for the interruption of training, who asked the press officer to remove the aforementioned press man.
This would have caused an altercation that ended up suspending the training of the national team for a few minutes. As published on his social networks, the journalist would be demanding a public apology from the midfielder.
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“Silvio Valencia was verbally assaulted by the Peruvian National Team player, Christian Cueva. Demand immediate apology. The practice of the selection was temporarily suspended due to this event “published the Twitter account of Silvio Valencia.
So far, neither Christian Cueva nor has any member of the Peruvian team commented on the altercation that, as can be seen in the images, made the players very uncomfortable in the middle of the physical work session.
