German prosecutors said Thursday they had brought a charge of grievous bodily harm against Bayern Munich midfielder Arturo Vidal over a nightclub brawl last year. A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Munich, Florian Weinzierl, said Vidal could face a sentence of up to 10 years over the melee in a local disco last September. “He is accused of involvement in a verbal, and then physical, altercation in September 2017,” Weinzierl told AFP, but he declined to provide further details. The daily Bild reported earlier that Vidal’s brother Sandrino had also been charged over the row on a night they were celebrating a Bayern victory over Mainz. Bayern announced in April that Vidal would be out for the rest of the season due to a knee injury.

Source: Punch May 24, 2018 15:33 UTC