The day Enner Valencia faked an injury to avoid being arrested by the police

Last update 29 March, 2024 by Alberto Llopis

That Enner Valencia faked an injury to avoid being arrested in the middle of a match, It is something that was not seen coming. The football world leaves us sometimes so surreal situations that seem a joke, But they are not. This could be what happened in the Ecuador-Chile match for the qualifiers for the Russia World Cup 2018.

And Valencia, the police and the feigned injury to avoid ending up in handcuffs

Ecuadorians swept the field with a blunt 3-0 the twice champion at that time in South America. However, unfortunately this was not the news but as the player Enner Valencia faked an injury to avoid being arrested by the Ecuadorian police who came to chase the car carrying the player allegedly injured.

But put on record why the police wanted to arrest the Ecuadorian striker? due to a complaint from his ex-partner who claimed 17.000 back child support dollars. As seen, The player allegedly did not pay his wife the pension that corresponded to the maintenance of his daughter. As a player earning a few million pounds in England, it seemed surreal that he would flee for 17.000 dollars but it was like that.

One of the most surreal moments experienced in a football stadium

One day before, police and his former partner lawyer, They appeared at training Ecuador with orders to arrest the player. However, finally they did not succeed and the player entered the game against Chile. They tried to stop him as he entered the Atahualpa Olympic Stadium, where the match was played, but he managed to slip away from the security forces with the help of his colleagues.

The comic part of the situation, so absurd and ridiculous it was, occurred when And Valencia, pretended to fall injured at the end of the game and left in the typical cart where the injured are loaded. Police, He began to chase him causing a sultry image. Not to be stopped at the end of the match, he left in an ambulance. All, less decide to pay the debt for the maintenance of their offspring.