Ezequiel Lavezzi, 38, is experiencing firsthand the hell that many footballers have gone through after hanging up their boots. It is neither about injuries nor financial problems. Fame or money now take a back seat for the player, retired from the elite in 2019, who is once again in the media spotlight. This time for unflattering reasons.
Fans of the beautiful sport are concerned about the former Napoli and Paris Saint-Germain footballer, among other teams, after Argentine media this week claimed that he had suffered an overdose. A delicate situation that would have originated on December 20, when ‘El Pocho’ was the victim of a domestic accident while he was at his house in Punta del Este, Uruguay.
The result of this incident for Lavezzi? “A short stab wound in his abdomen and a fracture at the level of the clavicle,” according to Uruguayan media after the inspection carried out on the player. The reason that explains this inconvenience in the first instance was a hypothetical fight with the Argentine’s brother that had as precedent “a kind of mystical outbreak,” according to communicator Estefa Belardi.
“He got so scared and so bad that he grabbed a pair of scissors and started trying to hurt himself. It was thought that they were coming to look for him. It’s not that he fought with his brother, because he tried to control the situation,” adds Belardi. In this regard, Lavezzi thought that Natalia Lombardi, his ex, with whom he is mired in legal problems, wanted to find him, they say from Buenos Aires.
Parties on luxurious yachts or controversial love affairs were starring in Lavezzi’s life since he hung up his boots five years ago at Hebei China Fortune in the Chinese league. However, the world runner-up with Argentina in the 2014 World Cup is now immersed in one of the hardest moments of his career, since he is “under treatment,” as confirmed by the player’s family.
“My father is fine and is undergoing treatment. Stop inventing things that are not true. He did not have an overdose or what they say,” Lavezzi’s son, Tomás, published this Monday on social networks. However, his father is not in an optimal state of health since ‘el Pocho’ is admitted to the Cantegril Sanatorium where the “puncture wound” in his abdomen was initially treated, according to the Argentine media Clarín.
“In Punta del Este they decide that the best thing is to take him to Buenos Aires on a medical plane. But when they arrive at the airport he has a similar or very similar episode, and in those conditions he could not travel because it was dangerous even for the crew. Then they doped him and brought him in asleep,” says the criminal, who has first-hand information, Lucas Bertero.
The Argentine press explains that Lavezzi is now hospitalized in a rehabilitation center in Boedo, a popular neighborhood in Buenos Aires. There, now far from the playing fields and accompanied only by his girlfriend Natali Borges, according to journalist Luis Ventura of the América TV network, he is fighting for the most important title of his career: recovering his mental health and physics of him.
