Arturo Vidal ignites River-Colo Colo rematch with controversial gestures during warm-up

Arturo Vidal continues to turn the key between Colo Colo and River Plate. The steering wheel has been the center of attention in the last week. It all started after the first leg, with his controversial statements. “You talk about economy. We are not going to see my price now with their price. “If we look at titles, I have more titles than all of River,” he said after the trial in Macul was over.

Then he ended his words. “Yesterday, what I answered was not to fight with the River players or to recover them, but I said it to answer the journalist who asked me something. All week, before the game, they despised us because our value was 26 million and theirs, I don’t know, 126 million, it seems. I answered with the titles, that the titles were worth nothing on the field. What you do on the field at the moment depends on how you prepare,” he explained on Wednesday, more coldly.

But his words have already triggered revenge. This even earned him national criticism. “It wouldn’t occur to me to say something like that. It’s great to have practically two neurons. “A player can’t say that, he incites violence that exacerbates rival fans. And we Chileans are more hateful these days for these kinds of statements,” he said. Leonardo Veliz Colo Colo history.

This Tuesday, as the teams entered the field, Vidal received a loud whistle from Núñez. The midfielder, true to his style, decided to react. Now it was no longer with words, but with gestures. The king, who in the anteroom was posing with a Boca Juniors jersey that Gary Medel had given him, put his hands over his ears and then asked them to blow harder. “I like playing with stadiums against me. It makes me grow a lot more. That’s why I have so much confidence.” expressed over the weekend.