(Reuters) - Chile midfielder Arturo Vidal's name has been removed from a stadium in the community where he was born by local officials, prompting an angry response from the player.
The mayor in San Joaquin, a community in greater Santiago, said they took the decision to remove Vidal’s name due to a “misunderstanding” that the combative midfielder had helped fund its construction.
“The stadium was constructed with money from the regional government,” Cristobal Labra, the mayor in San Joaquin, told Chilean website Redgol. “That is why it was decided to remove the name and leave it as the San Joaquin Municipal stadium.” “We have a project of football schools, to develop future football players and we never got good answers from the stadium so I got angry with them,” Vidal said on an Instagram live broadcast on Tuesday.
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