In Porto, at dawn on Sunday.
João Freire, a former training athlete for Varzim Sport Clube and current player for União Desportiva Lavrense, was stabbed outside a nightclub in Porto and is hospitalized in critical condition.
The crime took place in the early hours of Sunday, according to a family member of the footballer, on social media.
“At dawn today, after a trip with friends to Via Rapida, [o João] he was surprised by a despicable being who put his life on hold. There were two stab wounds that took down a young man with everything to work out”, wrote an aunt of the footballer, aged 20, on the social network Facebook.
