The 26-year-old started Ecuador’s 3-0 victory and but it is claimed he orchestrated his own exit from the ground by being substituted and leaving in an ambulance. Police chased Valencia on foot as the forward was carried to an ambulance in a golf cart.
Paul Marin, a lawyer for the mother of Valencia’s child declared: “It’s lamentable that certain police officers didn’t collaborate with the detention of the footballer Enner Valencia, to ensure compliance with a judicial order. If they say this man earns so much, why doesn’t he pay [the maintenance] monthly to his daughter.”