FORMER Real Madrid player Raul Bravo has denied allegations he ordered the assassination of ex-team-mate Darko Kovacevic.
Retired Sheffield Wednesday forward Kovacevic cheated death this month after he was attacked by two men who ambushed him as he went to park his car.
Raul Bravo, left, has denied allegations he ordered the assassination of former team-mate Darko Kovacevic
One assailant fired a shot at the 46-year-old, and he was taken to hospital for wrist and knee injuries after reportedly hurting himself as he fell to the ground to dodge the bullet.
Sensationally, press in Serbia alleged that Bravo, who was a team-mate of Kovacevic at Olympiacos from 2007 and 2009, ordered the assassination.
Kovacevic was arrested last year as part of an investigation into match-fixing and corruption in Spanish football, and La Gazzetta dello Sport reported there could be a connection between Kovacevic’s attack.
But ex-Leeds defender Bravo, slammed the allegations that he was part of the attempted assassination as “nonsense”.
He said: “A magazine in Serbia reported it and I was stunned that it said I ordered the murder of [Darko] Kovacevic.
“The only thing that matters [to them] is selling [magazines], and saying I wanted to kill Darko sells more. It’s a crazy story, it’s nonsense.”
The getaway vehicle the criminals fled in, a Smart car, was found burnt out near the scene of the attack in the neighbourhood of Glyfada to the south of Athens city centre.
Kovacevic told local press after being released from hospital: “I saw a man getting out of a car with a gun in his hand and coming towards me.
“I instinctively dived to the right and he fired at me.
“Then he ran, got into the car and disappeared.”
Kovacevic in action for Olympiakos in their Champions League clash against Chelsea in 2008Credit: PA:Press Association
Source: Soccer - thesun.co.uk
