Man arrested for death threats to Spain's Morata

A 19-year-old antheral has been arrested for making online decease threats against Álvaro Morata and his household pursuing the Spain captain's punishment miss against Portugal successful the UEFA Nations League final.

Morata's wife, Alice Campello, had hit retired astatine online trolls portion besides sharing immoderate of the hateful messages they had received successful the aftermath of Spain's 5-3 defeat connected penalties to Portugal successful the rubric crippled connected June 8.

Police confirmed connected Tuesday that a young antheral was arrested successful Málaga, Spain, aft helium confessed to person posted those comments connected his online account.

The perpetrator had initially tried to screen up that helium was liable for the online threats by reporting to the constabulary that his relationship had been hacked.

"The inconsistencies successful the complainant's statement, who was seeking an alibi to screen up the information that helium was the writer of the comments, arsenic good arsenic different checks carried retired by cyber agents, ended up incriminating the suspect, who admitted to the facts," the constabulary said successful a statement.

Morata, who is connected indebtedness astatine Galatasaray from AC Milan, formed a uncertainty connected his Spain aboriginal aft his punishment was kept retired by Portugal goalkeeper Diogo Costa.

"It's imaginable I won't beryllium backmost successful September [for the 2026 World Cup qualifiers]," the erstwhile Chelsea and Atlético Madrid guardant said aft the game.

"I consciousness atrocious for my teammates, but it's portion of life. The penalty? I didn't instrumentality it well, I could person done better, but there's thing I tin bash now."

Morata, 32, has scored 37 goals successful 86 appearances for Spain and captained the nationalist squad to the 2023 Nations League rubric and to Euro 2024 glory.