Liverpool’s manager, Jürgen Klopp, said his Colombian forward Luis Díaz was “really happy” after hearing his kidnapped father had been released a few hours before the club’s Europa League tie in Toulouse.
Luis Díaz Sr was taken along with his wife, Cilenis Marulanda, on 28 October in their home town of Barrancas in Colombia’s northern La Guajira state, although Díaz’s mother was freed hours later.
After a long wait and days of negotiation with the guerilla group the National Liberation Army, Díaz’s father was released on Thursday.
“It looks like Lucho [Díaz] is really…
