Following a brawl at Sunday’s Copa América final in Miami, Ramón Jesurún, the head of the Colombian Football Federation, and his son have been placed under arrest. Colombia Football Federation president Ramón Jesurún and his son Ramón Jamil Jesurún are facing three felony counts of battery on a specified official or employee after being arrested by Miami-Dade police at Hard Rock Stadium following the 2024 Copa América final.
The two men were booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center just after 4:10 a.m. Monday, according to jail records. The father, 71, and son, 43, are accused of fighting multiple security guards at one of the stadium’s tunnels used for the media at around 12:20 a.m. ET as they tried to gain access to the field, according to the arrest report.
Colombia lost the final 1-0 to Argentina after extra time in a game that was marred by crowd chaos in the runup, forcing the kickoff to be delayed. Miami-Dade police reported on Monday that there were 27 arrests and 55 ejections on Sunday after people without tickets had forced their way into Hard Rock Stadium.
