Colombia footballer, William Tesillo, who plays as a central defender for Club León in Liga MX has
confirmed that he and his family have been receiving death threats because of
his penalty miss which led to the South American country's Copa America exit.
On Friday, the 29-year-old defender missed the decisive
penalty kick against Chile at the Arena Corinthians, which could have sent
Colombia to the next stage.
He told both Colombian radio and newspapers : 'Yes, yes.
It's correct' Tesillo insisted to El Pais de Cali. 'They wrote to my wife and
she published [them]. They wrote to me too, but I didn't publish anything.'
'In the face of the threats that are being imposed on us, we
only pray. You have to think that this is just football and that you can lose
or win,' lamented his father, in an interview for Radio Caracol.
'Yet this will do little to calm those behind the
intimidations, one of which callously alluded to an infamous 1994 murder and
read: 'I hope that what happens to him is the same [that happened] with Andres
Escobar'
Twenty-five years ago, former Colombia defender Andrss
Escobar was murdered days after he scored an own-goal against the US in the
1994 World Cup.
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