Watch: Nunez, Uruguay players fight with Colombia fans in stands

Darwin Nunez and several other teammates entered the stands and have become embroiled in a brawl with Colombia followers inside Financial institution of America Stadium after Uruguay’s heated 1-0 loss within the Copa America semifinals Wednesday.

Nunez, specifically, appeared incensed as he punched at the very least one fan whereas drinks and particles had been hurled on the Uruguayan gamers.

Defender Jose Gimenez mentioned the gamers had been attempting to defend their members of the family, who had been outnumbered and at risk in that part of the group.

“Let me say one thing earlier than they minimize you off as a result of they will not allow us to converse into the microphone, they do not need me to say something about what is going on on, however this can be a catastrophe,” Gimenez mentioned on the official broadcast, in line with ESPN. “Please watch out, our households are within the stands, there are little new child infants. It was a catastrophe; there was no police, and we needed to defend our households.

“That is the fault of two or three individuals who had just a few too many drinks and do not know learn how to drink.”

Scuffles between the 2 units of followers had already damaged out earlier than the gamers arrived on the scene. The overwhelming majority of the 70,000 folks in attendance had been supporting Colombia, with Uruguayan followers sprinkled amongst them all through the stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina.

“It was an instinctive, pure response to defend their youngsters, their companions, mother and father and siblings,” Ignacio Alonso, president of the Uruguayan Soccer Affiliation, mentioned of the incident, in line with ESPN.

“There are households within the stands at each match. Usually there’s a cordon or one thing related.”

Roughly 100 Uruguayan followers and federation workers members remained on the sphere after safety guards and police restored order and the Colombian supporters left the stadium, in line with Steve Reed of The Related Press.

CONMEBOL, which organizes the Copa America and will levy suspensions or fines, is investigating the incident.

Nunez’s membership, Liverpool, is contacting the ahead imminently to get a clearer image of what transpired, sources informed Mark Ogden of ESPN.

Uruguay is scheduled to play Canada within the match’s third-place recreation Saturday.