Boca fans sent me death threats: River president
River Plate president Rodolfo D’Onofrio claims he has received death threats from hundreds of Boca Juniors fans.
River and Boca will play the second leg of their Libertadores Cup final at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium on Sunday after it was postponed last month following an attack by River fans on the Boca team bus. Although exposed to intense scrutiny from fans of his own club, D’Onofrio said he has already received death threats from fans of their biggest rivals.
“You need to have adequate security,” D’Onofrio told El Pais on Friday.
“If I go out in the street and say I don’t want to attend games at our stadium anymore, the River ultras will send death threats to me, my daughter, my wife and all my family. It’s happening to me now. I have 200 or 250 Boca fans who say they’re going to kill me.”
LEICESTER COPTER’S CONTROLS FAILED
British air accident investigators looking into the cause of the helicopter crash that killed Leicester City owner Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha said on Thursday that the failure of the tail rotor mechanism had caused the pilot to lose control.
Thai businessman Vichai, 60, was killed on October 27 alongwith four others when the helicopter crashed outside the King Power Stadium in the central English city of Leicester after a Premier League match.
Britain’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch said in a “Special Bulletin” on Thursday that the cockpit pedals had become disconnected from the tail rotor.
“The evidence gathered to date shows that the loss of control of the helicopter resulted from the tail rotor actuator control shaft becoming disconnected from the actuator lever mechanism,” the report said. The aircraft reached an altitude of approximately 430 feet before veering to the right and plummeting to the ground just outside the stadium.
MADRID:
PERU FOOTBALL CHIEF ARRESTED
LONDON: LIMA:Police
arrested Peru’s Football Federation chief Edwin Oviedo on Thursday on suspicion of involvement in a ‘corruption network’ involving judges and businessmen, a prosecutor said.
Oviedo was detained in an early morning raid on his home in Lima, and other arrests were likely, said prosecutor Jorge Chavez, coordinator of Lima’s organized crime unit. Oviedo, 47, is being held for a “preliminary” 10-day period. Meanwhile, a court in Lima is expected to rule soon on a prosecution request to jail him for 24 months in a separate case in which he is accused of ordering the murders of two trade unionists at a sugar company he controlled.