Copa America: Drunk Vidal crashes car but remains with Chile

[Zeppo]

Arturo Vidal remains in Chile squad because of Jorge Sampaoli's loyalty

Chile's man of Monday became the twit of Tuesday.

"Arturo alarms Chile," read the headline on one of the nation's major newspapers Wednesday morning. Arturo Vidal, the two-goal hero of Monday's draw against Mexico and the current Copa America top scorer, had been involved in a car accident. Driving back to the team's training complex Tuesday night, he crashed his Ferrari. He sustained only light wounds, while his wife was a little more badly hurt. The article concluded that Vidal had been taken for routine tests, but the worst was yet to come.

Later, police said Vidal was driving with 1.2 grams of alcohol per litre of blood in his system -- which equates to a blood alcohol content of 0.12 -- and therefore faced the loss of his driving licence and the possibility of a prison sentence of between 61 and 540 days. A full investigation will be carried out over the course of the next three months.

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[Peter R]

"He made a mistake, which is not so serious to exclude him," said Sampaoli

He was lucky; had his "mistake" resulted in the loss of someone's life, I wonder how serious he (Sampaoli) would have considered it to be?

[Zeppo]

"He made a mistake, which is not so serious to exclude him," said Sampaoli

He was lucky; had his "mistake" resulted in the loss of someone's life, I wonder how serious he (Sampaoli) would have considered it to be?

Yep. Although apparently Sampaoli had previously dropped a different player from the team in the past for oversleeping, as the article states...