{"id":22761,"date":"2023-11-09T05:44:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T05:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/liverpool-have-created-safe-place-for-diaz-says-van-dijk-daily-times\/"},"modified":"2023-11-09T05:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T05:44:05","slug":"liverpool-have-created-safe-place-for-diaz-says-van-dijk-daily-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/liverpool-have-created-safe-place-for-diaz-says-van-dijk-daily-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool have created ‘safe place’ for Diaz, says Van Dijk – Daily Times"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London: Virgil van Dijk says Liverpool\u2019s players have created a \u201csafe place\u201d for Luis Diaz since his father was kidnapped in Colombia. The 26-year-old winger came off the bench in the 83rd minute at Luton on Sunday and scored a dramatic equaliser deep into added time to earn a 1-1 draw. He lifted his shirt after his goal to show a message reading \u201cFreedom for Papa\u201d and after the match released an emotional statement on Instagram pleading with his father\u2019s kidnappers to release him immediately. It was his first appearance since Luis Manuel Diaz was abducted in the northern Colombian town of Barrancas on October 28. Diaz\u2019s mother was also kidnapped but was rescued hours later.<\/p>\n

The head of Colombia\u2019s ELN guerilla group on Saturday acknowledged the organisation had made a \u201cmistake\u201d when it abducted Diaz\u2019s father and vowed to work toward his release. Following the game against Luton, Liverpool defender Van Dijk said: \u201cHe\u2019s been training with us, knowing that it\u2019s so fresh, what\u2019s going on. He feels like being with us is a safe place, so it helps him. \u201cWe\u2019re here for him. We mentioned it last week, it\u2019s an absolutely horrible situation. Hopefully there will be a solution. We\u2019ll be here for him and everybody should support him. Hopefully it will be sorted as soon as possible.\u201d Liverpool had looked set to fall to a shock defeat before Diaz\u2019s late intervention, trailing to an 80th-minute goal from Luton substitute Tahith Chong.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s still disappointed because he also wanted to win,\u201d said Van Dijk. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of emotions in his head. It must have been (meant to be) that he should have scored. I\u2019m happy for him, but hopefully we can get his father back as soon as possible. \u201cYou can\u2019t imagine it, that\u2019s the scary part. The only thing we can do is hope they will find him safe and sound and they get him back to his family.<\/p>\n

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London: Virgil van Dijk says Liverpool\u2019s players have created a \u201csafe place\u201d for Luis Diaz since his father was kidnapped in Colombia. The 26-year-old winger came off the bench in the 83rd minute at Luton on Sunday and scored a dramatic equaliser deep into added time to earn a 1-1 draw. He lifted his shirt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dailytimes.com.pk\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Liverpool-have.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}