“They are killing me in the most painful way…”: Andrés ‘Manga’ Escobar and his SOS from Iceland

The player was evicted from his apartment.

Colombia News.

Andrés ‘Manga’ Escobar is a Colombian player who is going through a difficult situation in Iceland, a country where he was hired to play for a soccer team, Leiknir Reykjavík in March 2021.

During his stay in the Nordic country of Europe, the 30-year-old attacking winger from Cauca was involved in a scandal over an alleged case of abuse of a young woman with whom he would have had a “non-consensual” intimate relationship.

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Due to this judicial mess, Escobar, who had a stint at Millonarios, Deportivo Cali, Atlético Nacional, among other clubs, now faces a 30-month prison sentence.

The Colombian soccer player already knew this sentence and in dialogue with the sports media he expressed his sadness.

“For me it is very difficult to know that in my country they condemn me without knowing what has happened, that destroys me,” said ‘Manga’ on the air.

Now, the striker posted on social networks that due to his legal situation, he was evicted from his apartment where he lives in Iceland.

«Today I am on the street waiting for help from my government, they have taken me out of the apartment. I cannot work, I cannot return to my country because the Police have taken my passport from me in September of last year, my resources have run out because I have already spent more than 40,000 dollars in this country of which I am a prisoner, “wrote the player in a publication accompanied by his clothes lying on the ground.

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According to the athlete, the authorities of that country force him to pay a kind of bail worth 70 thousand dollars, that is, about 250 million Colombian pesos.

“They are forcing me to pay 70,000 dollars for the investigation of a case for a crime that I did not commit, what do I do?” the player asked in his publication.

He added that he has been waiting for his situation to be resolved for some time, but the days go by and his anguish grows:

“I have been waiting 6 months for the case to be resolved and there are 8 more months to make an appeal, they have violated all my rights as a human being, this is worse than being in jail,” he added.

Finally, the soccer player born in the Colombian Pacific, assimilates his present as a hard test of life.

“I will find where to spend the night tonight, they are killing me in the most painful way,” he concluded in his post.

Cover photo: @andresescobar11

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