Fede Valverde's punch to Álex Baena in the Santiago Bernabeu car park continues to have a tail. After the Villarreal footballer denounced the Real Madrid midfielder for this violent act and denied in a statement having mocked the serious health problems of the Uruguayan's future son, now it has been his partner Mina Bonino who has broken the silence to explain how she lived through the delicate weeks of her pregnancy, when she was about to lose her second child, who has not yet been born.
Through a Twitter thread, the Argentine sports journalist regretted that limits were crossed depending on which issues "should not be crossed" because "not everything is valid in football" or "in life". She also assured that it "hurts" her to have to read that her family takes advantage of "a misfortune", as Baena snapped. At the same time, she rejects the threats that the young Andalusian player has received.
"Imagine that when you are 14 weeks pregnant they tell you that your child is not going to be born, that it comes with a trisomy incompatible with life, that you can take the option of terminating the pregnancy or waiting for invasive tests where the results take more than a month...
Imagine being prepared to explain that you are going to give birth to a dead child, that recovery is quick and that in two or three months you can try again. Imagine that in the meantime, social networks give me their condolences because it is rumored that I lost a pregnancy, where I did not even know.
Imagine from the first days of January to February 10 that the conclusive results arrived that I am in my bed, lying down every day, carrying a baby that I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE BORN and meanwhile, life goes on. Imagine my head and what I had to endure.
Imagine all that so that after having 'overcome', they tell you that you are taking advantage of a misfortune. It breaks my heart, and it's true. Words hurt more than any blow and I'm not ready to have to relive this all over again.
We never incite violence at any time. I am sorry that you have received threats, which I also receive but it is out of the reach of my hands. I never told in depth how bad those two months of uncertainty had gone.
I want to stay quiet, I don't want to dwell on the subject, but please. After everything we went through, the fact that I have to read that we took advantage of a misfortune hurts me.
There is a God who sees everything, who knows reality and we are calm, but they are opening a wound that is not even closed because until the baby is born I will not have peace of mind. There are limits that should not be crossed, not everything goes in football. Not everything is fair in life.
There are limits. And the limit reaches the direct pain that someone can cause. And I am not a spokesperson for anyone. I transmit MY pain and if there is someone who does not come out to speak today, it is because they do not want to relive what happened again, and on the contrary, they want to end this as soon as possible.
The family is always ahead of everything. And I always said it, football is the least important of the most important things. Our reward is that the pregnancy continues well and we would NEVER take advantage of a situation like this. Thank you for understanding."
