Two players from the Brazilian Bahia were injured this Thursday after the team bus was hit by an explosive device, while they were on their way to the Fonte Nova Arena in Salvador for a Northeast Cup match.
The firecracker reached the team bus upon arrival at Fonte Nova, He broke the glass of some windows and injured two players on the campus, according to the club.
“The most worrying case is the goalkeeper Danilo Fernandes, whose face was damaged by shrapnel and was transferred to a hospital,” indicated the Bay in their social networks.
The other victim was the left side Matheus Bahia, 22, who suffered superficial cuts on his arms.A private vehicle driving alongside the bus was also affected. of the Steel Tricolor, who shared some photographs of the incident in which the hole opened by the explosive object and the blood stains on some of the headrests can be seen.
At the moment, it is unknown who or who could carry out the attack
The cast considered not playing their commitment against Sampaio Correa, for the first day of the Northeast Cup, but finally took to the pitch “for dignity, professionalism and to honor the colors of Bahia,” said coach Guto Ferreira.
“Danilo’s was not serious, but he was one finger away from losing his vision. He cut himself very close to the eye. Due to the size of the firecracker and the noise, if it got inside the bus, it would surely have caused a death inside,” said the coach.
Ferreira invited people to reflect on the state of education in Brazil and complained about “those who sell all the time how bad professionals” they would be. “It’s always that the coach is bad, that the player is bad or that it’s a performance problem. You can never measure the size and timing of the job,” said the coach of Bahía, where Colombian striker Hugo Rodallega plays.
Several Brazilian clubs, such as Botafogo, Santos, Fluminense or Internacional, expressed their solidarity with Bahía and called for a thorough investigation of what happened.
