Sebastián Villa, Sentenced for Male Chauvinist Violence to Stand for Colombia in the World Cup
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The footballer Sebastián Villa has passed in just three years of a conviction for macho violence to be one of the 55 shortlisted to represent Colombia in the World Cup. “We are not who to judge forever,” said the technical director of the Tricolor Team, Néstor Lorenzo, on Thursday during a press conference. The controversy spread quickly in the radio debates and social networks, with voices in favor and against. This Sunday, she reached the defe…
The Ombudsman, Iris Marín, addressed an open letter this Sunday to the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) to object to the presence of striker Sebastián Villa in the prelist of 55 players that Néstor Lorenzo presented in the face of the 2026 World Cup, to be held in Mexico, the United States and Canada. Marin’s questioning rests on the conviction that the Argentine justice system imposed on the attacker in June 2023: two years and a month in pr…
The Ombudsman, Iris Marín, published a public letter this Sunday asking the Colombian Football Federation not to summon player Sebastián Villa for the World Cup, which begins in less than a month. Open letter to the Colombian Football Federation @FCFSselectCol The Colombian T-shirt cannot be a shield against justice pic.twitter.com/l4cFpoI2Jc— Iris Marín Ortiz (@MarnIris) May 17, 2026 “The discussion is not only sports. Villa was judicially conv…
On May 14, 2026, the coach of the Colombia National Team, Néstor Lorenzo, announced the list of 55 players pre-selected for the FIFA World Cup 2026 that will be held in Mexico, the United States and Canada between June 11 and July 19 of this year. The final list of 26 players who will travel to represent the country on the orbital date will be announced in the coming weeks. These players will be chosen from the preliminary list. However, within …
Villa was convicted for acts of gender-based violence and also faced a sexual abuse charge
The Ombudsman, Iris Marín, sent a letter to the Colombian Football Federation that rekindled the debate on the values to be represented by the players of the Colombia Team and the eventual return of Sebastián Villa to the national combination. In the document, the defender questions the message that would be transmitted to the country if a player with a judicial record for gender-based violence re-dresses the team's shirt, insisting that represe…
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