After his parents were kidnapped in Colombia, Luis Diaz will determine for himself if he is well enough to play for Liverpool against Luton in the Premier League on Sunday, according to Reds manager Jurgen Klopp. The German manager said, “We have to wait,” at the press conference held before the game. “He’s alright.
“In the session he had with us you can see that when he is with the boys he is fine, he is OK, but you can see he didn’t sleep much,” the Liverpool manager said. We see some promise in the news from Colombia. Klopp acknowledged that “it all depends” on Luis Diaz, saying that “we will not force anything” and that “we are waiting for the real good news.”
The 26-year-old striker trained this week before the match at newly promoted Luton, as disclosed by Klopp. After being abducted in the village of Barrancas last Saturday, the Colombian striker’s mother was freed within hours, but his father, Luis Manuel Diaz, is still being held captive.
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The father of Liverpool football player Luis Diaz was abducted five days ago in the country’s north, and the rebels of Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) declared on Thursday that he will be freed “as soon as possible”. The news was made just hours after the government of Colombia sought the immediate release of the striker’s father, Luis Manuel Diaz, and accused the rebel group of kidnapping him.
In a statement shared on the social media platform X, Juan Carlos Cuéllar, the ENL representative for the peace negotiations with the government, declared that “the National Liberation Army is going to free Mr. Díaz’s father as soon as possible.”
