{"id":8728,"date":"2023-11-15T05:12:20","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/15\/liverpools-diaz-meets-father-first-time-since-latters-kidnapping\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T05:12:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T23:42:20","slug":"liverpools-diaz-meets-father-first-time-since-latters-kidnapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/2023\/11\/15\/liverpools-diaz-meets-father-first-time-since-latters-kidnapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool\u2019s Diaz meets father first time since latter\u2019s kidnapping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool and Colombia winger Luis Diaz has reunited with his father for the first time since the latter\u2019s kidnapping ordeal, the Colombian football federation said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Manuel Diaz, 58, was released on Thursday by the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN), 12 days after he was taken hostage on October 28 in Barrancas, a rural municipality where he lives in the northern province of La Guajira.<\/p>\n<p>The winger remained with Liverpool through this period up to Sunday\u2019s Premier League win over Brentford, before returning to Colombia ahead of Thursday\u2019s World Cup qualifier against Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The Colombian FA shared pictures of the father and son\u2019s emotional reunion on social media with the caption \u201cwe are family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diaz\u2019s father has said he would remain in Colombia despite his difficult kidnapping experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy aspirations are to continue in my town because I have my entire family in my town,\u201d he told a press conference on Friday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"comments-shares share-page\">\n<p class=\"comments\">\nComments\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Manuel Diaz was released last Thursday by the leftist National Liberation Army (ELN), 12 days after he was taken hostage in Barrancas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-sport-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baysidesports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}