LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivia goalkeeper Leo Fernandez has agreed to complete a 60-hour community service sentence for faking an assassination attempt on himself, legal sources said Wednesday without explaining the motive for his actions.
The incident happened on November 7 last year when police in the eastern city of Santa Cruz said that two men on a motorbike fired shots at Fernandez's car that had stopped at a traffic light.
Fernandez, who played for local club Oriente Petrolero at the time, was driving home after a game with team mate Lucas Fernandez.
Transferred to Colombian club Atletico Nacional shortly afterwards, Fernandez initially denied the allegations but agreed to the sentence after being interviewed by public prosecutors.
"There is sufficient evidence that the supposed assassination attempt of November 7 which he suffered with Lucas Fernandez, was invented," public prosecutor Yolando Aguilera told reporters.
Fernandez has been included in the Bolivia squad for the World Cup qualifiers away to Chile Saturday and Paraguay four days later.
He had been reluctant to join the squad's training camp in Santa Cruz because he feared arrest on his return home from Colombia.
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