A former CSKA football player was brutally beaten and shot in a cafe near Moscow! The Russian player was injured during a racially motivated conflict. The attackers did not like the color of the defender’s skin.

Shot from a pistol

Lionel Adams was born in St. Petersburg to a Nigerian and Russian family. The 31-year-old football player is a graduate of the CSKA academy. Adams was involved in the youth team of the army club, but the defender never played for the main team. At the same time, Adams was among the most promising players in his age group, he was even called up to the Russian youth team. And Leonid Slutsky took the footballer when he was only 17 years old to a training camp with the main team.

At the adult level, Adams was lost: he gathered dust in the lower domestic leagues, played in a number of CIS countries and the third league of Spain. The Russian-Nigerian defender even managed to shine in the media league, joining the club’s roster with Georgy Dzhikia and Alexander Sobolev. However, it was not possible to stay in the “Bey Bigi” team.

“We are unilaterally saying goodbye to Leo due to insubordination and failure to fulfill obligations under the terms of the agreement between the player and management,” the club reported in 2022.

At the moment, he has a valid contract with the Alga Bishkek club from Kyrgyzstan, which expires on December 31. But now the agreement coming to an end is not the footballer’s main concern.

Lionel Adams / Photo: © Lionel Adams Social Networks

According to a Sport Baza source, on December 27, Lionel was subjected to a group beating. The football player was relaxing with friends in a cafe in Zvenigorod, near Moscow, where he had a racial conflict with 10 unknown people, one of whom took out a pistol and shot at the player, and the rest began to beat Adams.

The victim was taken to the hospital in moderate condition. He has a bullet wound in his thigh and a laceration of his upper lip. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Moscow Region reported on a social network that the identities of the attackers have not yet been established, but police officers are looking for them. At the same time, Adams’ name was not mentioned, but the statement coincides with the year of birth of the injured man and the football player.

– To the duty station of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Odintsovo city district. a message was received that near one of the houses located on Moskovskaya Street in the city of Zvenigorod, sounds similar to gunshots were heard. The arriving police officers previously established that a quarrel occurred between three citizens, which escalated into a brawl, during which several shots were fired from an object structurally similar to a traumatic pistol.

As a result of the incident, a man born in 1994. sought medical help, and the offenders fled. Police officers are taking measures aimed at identifying the attackers, as well as searching for and detaining them, says a statement from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Moscow Region.

The Mash on Sports Telegram channel reported details that allow us to look at the incident differently. It is noted that Adams came to visit Timur Magomedov, a former player of Yalta Rubin. After drinking alcoholic beverages, they went outside, where they quarreled and fought with unknown people. A passing driver tried to break up their fight, but he was also attacked. As a result, the driver pulled out a traumatic pistol and began shooting back in order to drive away.

The athletes then went into a bar, where another fight took place. Adams refused to write a statement to the police and film the beatings, despite his injuries.