Former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker Angel Di Maria won a risk at his family’s home on the outskirts of Rosario early Monday.
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It comes amid a wave of drug-related violence in the city where Lionel Messi is also from.
The post comes a week after Di Maria, who lately plays for Portuguese champions Benfica, said he would like to continue his career at his boyhood club Rosario Central. Angel Di Maria, in PSG colours, faced former club Man United at Old Trafford in the Champions League. League.
Local media, via Reuters, reported that a car had left a sign in front of the gated community where the 36-year-old is staying.
The banner addressed to Di Maria’s relatives said that not even the governor of the province, Maximiliano Pullaro, would be there to guarantee his protection if he returned to the city.
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“Tell your son Angel not to go back to Rosario because we would kill a family member. Not even Pullaro would save you. We don’t leave paper notes. We left the bullets and the dead,” the message reads, according to the news portal Infobae, citing police sources.
Rosario, one of the world’s largest agro-port hubs, has seen an intense increase in violence by drug trafficking groups, as the city is – according to experts – a possible outlet for illegal drugs to other countries.
Argentina’s captain Lionel Messi, who was born in Rosario, also threatened in a letter last year after unidentified gunmen attacked a supermarket owned by his wife Antonela Roccuzzo’s family.