The footage captured the assailant kicking the second referee as he lay on the ground. “After he proceeded to attack my client, turns away and strikes another official that was on the field,” he said. He said no cameras were rolling when the player punched the first referee, but cellphone video captured what happened next. “Without him even looking up, all says is that he felt a punch in the face,” said Vidales. When the referees tried to eject the player, the situation became physical.

Vidales said his client initially gave the player in question a warning after he became aggressive and began threatening members of the opposing team.Īs the game went on, Vidales said, the player became even more aggressive and began hurling profanities at the referees. Vidales said it all went down during an adult soccer match at Kendall Soccer Park in the area of Southwest 80th Street and 127th Avenue. “He was told that two centimeters to the left or right, he probably would not have survived that impact,” he said. Attorney Andres Vidales, who is representing the referee who, he said, was punched in the head, said his client ended up in the hospital with injuries to his face.

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