Second escape in a week in Valencia related to the Women’s Handball World Cup. On this occasion, the player who has fled during the tournament, which is held in Spain – the Valencian Community is home to three of the four venues – is the right wing of the Iranian team. The athlete, 30, would have been coerced by her husband hours before his disappearance, so everything indicates that his absence is related to that fact.
A week ago, as reported Lift-EMV, newspaper of the Prensa Ibérica group, the same as this newspaper, were four players from the Cameroon team who took advantage of their stay at the Sercotel Sorolla Palace Hotel to get into a taxi and disappear without prior notice to the rest of their companions.
On this occasion, the flight of the Iranian would have occurred on the morning of last Tuesday, just one day after he played with his selection precisely against the Cameroonian team, a match that the Africans won by a resounding 32-17 in a match played in Llíria.
The teammates on the right wing of the team notified their coach, who sounded the alarm in the middle of the morning. Immediately afterwards, the representative of the Iranian women’s handball team went to a National Police station in Valencia and filed a complaint for his disappearanceAt this time, 24 hours after her absence, she could not be located, according to the sources consulted by this newspaper.
According to the representative, the night before her disappearance, that of Monday 13, the player, whose identity this newspaper omits due to the possibility that the young woman is seeking refuge as a possible victim of gender violence or has simply fled due to the coercion received, there would be confessed to a teammate that her husband I would have told him that night, after the game, to leave the team and not play handball anymore. The Police are trying to locate both the 30-year-old athlete and her husband, who has not been revealed if he accompanied the national team or remains in his country.
The player confessed what happened to her partner just after arriving at the hotel, the same one where Cameroon is staying and precisely after returning from the game Against the African team within the twenty-fifth edition of the Women’s Handball World Championship that takes place in Spain -Llíria, Castelló, Torrevieja and Granollers- since last December 1 and that will conclude on the next day 19.
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Reference-www.elperiodico.com