Drug Trafficking: US sanctions Mexico national football team

The United States has sanctioned Mexico’s national football team captain for allegedly being a front person for a drug-trafficking cartel.

Rafael Marquez was one of twenty-one people and fourty-two organisations singled out by the United States treasury department for sanctions.

They are all accused of having ties with alleged drug trafficker Raul Flores Hernandez.

Marquez has made a statement to the Mexican attorney general’s office but no details were released immediately.

The thirty-eight-year-old footballer has represented Mexico in four world cups and won more than one hundred and fourty international caps in two decades with the national team.