Teófilo Gutiérrez gave the note again. After groping and earning a sanction in the Colombian League, he now clashed with a teammate in a neighborhood tournament called the Champions Cup on the Simón Bolívar field in Barranquilla.
It didn’t take long for the video of Teo fist-pumping himself to go viral. And the curious thing was not only that he fought with a player who was wearing the same shirt, but that it was also his brother-in-law.
The images are eloquent, Gutiérrez is anticipated by an opponent and then an exchange of words begins that the former Racing, Lanús and River responds with a punch.
The sequence lasts a few seconds and the players are quickly separated. The incredible thing is that the Colombian is back in the news a month after being sanctioned for groping a woman in the Colombian league
Teófilo Gutiérrez punished for touching a woman
In mid-November, Teófilo Gutiérrez was sanctioned for four days in the Colombian league for having “touched the buttock” of a logistics woman in the match between Deportivo Cali and Deportes Tolima in Ibagué.
The situation opened a file in Colombian soccer and in Gutiérrez’s club, which ended up with his services being dismissed and he is now a free player.
According to the Disciplinary Committee of the Professional Football Championship “at the end of the first half of the match,” a young logistics woman informed the match judges that Gutiérrez “had touched her buttock twice during the match.”
Tolima, according to the document, described what happened as “supremely serious and delicate from every point of view” and stated that the media officer of the Major Division of Colombian Soccer (Dimayor) and members of the television channel that broadcast the match saw the happened.
The former River player, meanwhile, denied this fact and responded to the accusations saying: “She approached me to ask for the shirt and I told her that at another time because I had already exchanged it with a player.”
The Committee then decided to suspend for four days and impose a fine of one million pesos (about $248) on Gutiérrez for what happened and ordered Deportivo Cali to start “pedagogical awareness campaigns in which” the experienced gunner is involved about ” respect for the dignity of women”.
Gutiérrez, 38, was a World Cup player with Colombia in Brazil 2014 and has also played for Junior de Barranquilla, Trabzonspor, Racing Club, Lanús, Cruz Azul, Sporting de Lisboa, Rosario Central and Atlético Bucaramanga.