Liverpool’s Luis Diaz, Dad Reunited After 12-Day Kidnapping Ordeal
Liverpool striker Luis Diaz had a tearful reunion Tuesday along with his father, freed final week after a 12-day kidnapping ordeal by the hands of Colombia’s ELN guerrilla group. Diaz was again house in Colombia to hitch the nationwide workforce forward of a World Cup qualifying match in opposition to Brazil Thursday within the seaport metropolis of Barranquilla, the place the assembly along with his dad, Luis Manuel Diaz, was organized. The pair embraced in tears, in response to photos distributed by the Colombian Soccer Federation (FCF). Luis Manuel Diaz, 56, wore a black T-shirt with the phrases: “No extra kidnapping.” “After 12 days disadvantaged of freedom, that is the primary contact of the participant along with his father and the remainder of the household, who lived lengthy moments of anguish,” the FCF stated on its web site with a photograph of the 2 males and the footballer’s younger daughter on her grandfather’s knee. Luis Manuel Diaz and his spouse Cilenis Marulanda had been kidnapped by armed males on bikes at a fuel station of their house city of Barrancas close to the Venezuelan border on October 28. Marulanda was rescued hours later and an…