This is the moment two armed men steal an Argentine footballer’s car after pointing their guns at two traumatised young children.

The incident took place outside a home in the suburb of Villa Caraza, in the city of Lanus, in the eastern Argentine province of Buenos Aires, on 26th March.

Federico Versaci, 20, his mother-in-law, Paola, and two girls, aged 10 and 4, were confronted by two armed men.

The men pointed their guns at the two children and snatched the phone out of the eldest girl’s hand.

Inside the house, other family members heard the commotion and called the authorities.

One suspect told Versaci, a youth player for the Argentine top flight team Club Atletico Velez Sarsfield, to give him the car keys, and the two men fled in the Peugeot 208.

Paola told local media that the two men had been with a third suspect in another car waiting nearby.

She said: “They suddenly appeared in front of us, pointing a gun at me and my four-year-old daughter. I looked up and he was right there. He kept pointing the gun at my head.

“Before pointing the gun at us, he cocked it. They were ready to shoot. It passed in seconds, but seemed like an eternity.”

The mother added that her 10-year-old daughter “had a nervous breakdown and still cannot sleep well”.

The police investigation into the robbery is ongoing