<!--Article Start--> <h2 style="text-align: justify"><strong><em>Chile star Alexis Sanchez revealed a Uruguayan player apologized to him for nearly injuring him after Wednesday's stormy Copa America quarter-final battle.</em></strong></h2> <p style="text-align: justify">Holders Uruguay finished the game with nine men as they tumbled out of the tournament after losing 1-0 to the hosts.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Sanchez was at the center of one of the game's flashpoints, when he was flattened by a rough challenge from Jorge Fucile in the dying minutes of the game.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Fucile received a second yellow card for the tackle and was dimissed, a decision which triggered a prolonged confrontation between players and officials from both sides.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Arsenal star Sanchez later told reporters one unnamed Uruguayan player had said sorry to him for the rough treatment he had been given during a bruising encounter.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">"They like to fight, argue, go forward all out; one player told me in the first half 'Move you wimp' -- but then later he said to me: 'I am sorry'," Sanchez said, without identifying the opponent in question.</p> . <p style="text-align: justify">"He said to me,'That'll do, I kicked the shit out of you'. And I said, 'Alright but you could have caused an injury and that's not what football's about,'" Sanchez said.</p> <p style="text-align: justify">Chile now face either Bolivia or Peru in the semi-finals.</p> <strong>By AFP</strong> <p style="text-align: justify"></p>