Story By: Juan Mayes, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: Golder’s News And Sport

Manchester City’s on-loan defender Pedro Porro has been fined by cops for breaking Spain’s coronavirus lockdown and he has now apologised after calling the officers “backwards”.

Manchester City right-back Porro, 20, currently on loan to Spanish side Valladolid, was fined by local authorities after he was stopped reportedly 15 kilometres (9.32 miles) from his home in a town outside the city of Valladolid during quarantine.

Spain has been in lockdown for over one week as it is one the most affected countries by the coronavirus, officially named COVID-19 by the World Heal Organization.

The incident led Porro to make a post slamming the cops who fined him saying: “I just went to do a shop and have been fined for going from my house to the Valladolid centre. I’ll just mention I live in a very small town.

“I think it’s nice and good to be fined if I am not doing what the government asks but one thing does take away from the other. I only went to buy something and I ended up getting fined.

“Having said that, I am very angry at how some people talk to you and address you with disrespect. I only say that nobody is above anyone else and you can go further by speaking respectfully. It seems some people don’t know what this means.”

Porro briefly described the incident saying the police asked him “What the hell are you doing here?” and ended by saying “they did everything backwards and especially, I will repeat, disrespecting me.”

Despite Porro’s initial anger, he issued a second statement apologising for the incident saying he wants to “publicly apologise” for his initial comments.

He explained: “It didn’t help that my childhood home appears as my residence on my identification and the agents didn’t understand what I was doing there which led them to” fine him which he will “obviously pay.”

Porro is originally from the autonomous community of Extremadura in southern Spain, however, he is currently residing in the municipality of Boecilla in the province of Valladolid in the autonomous community of Castile and Leon in northwestern Spain.

He went on to say: “I have made a mistake today and hope that it serves to show other people they should think twice before leaving their home if it is not for something out of their hands.”

Porro ended his final message praising the emergency services in Spain saying: “I’d like to take this opportunity to apologise to the agents of the Valladolid Local Police who stopped me for the tension at the time and for the words I said after.

“They, like all of the state security forces and organisations, were only doing their job, which is to protect all of us.”

Porro was sent to Valladolid on a loan-deal in August 2019, making 15 appearances for the side before all Spanish competitions were suspended until further notice to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Porro’s loan deal is set to finish in June of this year.

The fine comes after Spain has remained on lockdown for over one week and is one of the most affected countries by the virus with a reported 39,673 cases leading to 2,696 deaths.

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