{"id":41205,"date":"2024-07-11T07:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T07:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/copa-america-2024-uruguay-striker-nunez-fights-with-colombia-fans-after-defeat\/"},"modified":"2024-07-11T07:00:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T07:00:28","slug":"copa-america-2024-uruguay-striker-nunez-fights-with-colombia-fans-after-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/copa-america-2024-uruguay-striker-nunez-fights-with-colombia-fans-after-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Copa America 2024: Uruguay striker, Nunez fights with Colombia fans after defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Uruguay striker, Darwin Nunez was at the centre of a fight with Colombia fans following his side\u2019s defeat in the Copa America on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Uruguay were defeated 1-0 against Colombia in the Copa America semi-final encounter.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson Lerma scored the only goal of the match in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>However, shortly after Mexican referee, Cesar Ramos blew the final whistle of the game, Nunez and his teammate Ronald Araujo were among the Uruguay players who rushed over to a section of Colombia fans inside the Bank of America Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez was seen exchanging punches with Colombia supporters before police stepped in to separate the two groups.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Uruguay captain Jose Gimenez has since claimed that his teammates engaged in the confrontation because their families, who were sitting near the Colombia supporters, were in danger during the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, I ask you to be careful. Families are in the stands. Our families are in danger. This is a disaster,\u201d Gimenez told Directv.<\/p>\n<p>Copa America 2024: Uruguay striker, Nunez fights with Colombia fans after defeat<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uruguay striker, Darwin Nunez was at the centre of a fight with Colombia fans following his side\u2019s defeat in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4427,18132,15,4636,160,4418],"tags":[1453,1279,235,7261,4428,7262,238,20536,180,4637,201,4887,4420,364],"class_list":["post-41205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombia","category-copa-america-2024","category-news","category-nunez","category-sport","category-uruguay","tag-fans","tag-1279","tag-after","tag-america","tag-colombia","tag-copa","tag-defeat","tag-fights","tag-news","tag-nunez","tag-sport","tag-striker","tag-uruguay","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}