Esteban Valencia: Universidad de Chile and Unión La Calera speak after case of domestic violence

One of the pillars of the good campaign of Union La Calera is Esteban Valencia. The son of the remembered Egg is the starter and prop in the team of Juan Pablo Duke, but today he made the news for a fact absolutely foreign to football.

And it is that, according to what Al Aire Libre en Cooperativa announced, the footballer weighs a very serious complaint of domestic violence, which is currently in process.

Juan Pablo Donoso, lawyer for the player’s former partner, Fernanda Cortes, told the aforementioned media that “it was a relationship of about two years and the events were manifesting with greater gravity from 2019 to August 2020 and (Valencia) carried out a series of attacks that are being investigated. Lhe attacks were carried out with blows of the fist, feet and very serious psychological violence ”.

Likewise, the jurist pointed out that “The antecedents have just been sent to the Public Ministry, which must dispatch the police and call to make a statement to determine if these facts are criminal., which is what we are pointing out. There are circumstances of violent blows and very offensive language Other couples who have also suffered violence (from Valencia) have approached. The idea is that they can also declare with all the corresponding protection measures ”.

On Fernanda Cortes, stated that “She arrived physically handicapped and with great fear. In this case there was also something called economic violence, the aggressor himself blamed her that she did not work, since she stopped working to accompany her partner. We are in a process of recovery, it is a rather slow process. She is tremendously affected, she returned to live with her parents and is in therapy, realizing the humiliations she experienced for more than a year ”.

Clubs react

Given this, University of Chile, club that owns the pass Esteban Valencia, Y Union La Calera, an institution that has been on loan since 2019, they manifested themselves with press releases.

From the Romantic Traveler they pointed out that “As an institution we will be especially attentive to the process and we will wait for the justice to determine the possible responsibilities of the case to make a decision regarding the player ”

They also stressed that “In the event that his guilt is proven, we deeply regret that footballers belonging to our Club are involved in this type of complaint, because we reject any type of violence, especially against women, which constitutes one of our fundamental values ​​”.

For their part, the cement manufacturers stated that they are “pending the judicial process of this complaint and we wait for the corresponding courts determine the possible responsibilities before take a decision in this regard ”.

To end, Union La Calera sentenced that “We express our rejection of any type of violent conduct by any player, official or worker of the institution.”