Gabriel Cortez has been the best soccer player in Barcelona at the start of the campaign. The midfielder has accumulated seven goals in eight games and the doubles scored in the important wins against Valley IndependentHey Ourense. However, his professional and personal situation has turned around when he has been arrested and transferred by helicopter for his alleged relationship with the criminal gang. The Tiguerones. The news has shaken Ecuador this friday and Barcelona has already released a statement.
Cortez26 years old, emerged in Valley Independent and has experience in Mexico either Brazil. A Barcelona He arrived last season but it has been in this 2022 when he has taken an important place in the eleven in the local championship. In South American Cup He has also participated in the two games played to date but from the bench.
His arrest occurred at dawn and the images are shocking. An international footballer in handcuffsescorted and transferred in a hurry to be interrogated. However, at the moment no further details are known or the charges against him beyond the relationship with the criminal gang.
In development?
Gabriel Cortez arrives at the Esmeraldas judicial unit for the hearing to formulate charges. pic.twitter.com/qd0FXQkhrC– Mario Anchundia ?️ نحن ذاهبون إلى قطر (@mario_jordan04) April 22, 2022
In the next few hours it is expected that from the penitentiary center of emeralds, hometown of the soccer player, the sentence he faces is known and that could put his future on the soccer fields at risk.