Former footballer Daniel Osvaldo, who played among other teams for Espanyol, has opened up in a video on social networks where he admits that he is "desperate" and immersed in "a very big depression" that has led him to fall into "some addictions." , alcohol and drugs". "Hopefully he can go back to being the same as before," concludes the document that the Argentine has published through tears.
"I'm quite desperate, I'm not having a good time. I need to talk about it. I've been dealing with a very big depression for a long time, which made me fall into some addictions, alcohol and drugs. I'm in a moment where my life is turning upside down. "It's getting out of hand," begins the video Osvaldo, who retired at the age of 33 in 2020 following the outbreak of the pandemic.
The former Perico forward, the team with which he played in the 2010-11 season with a record of 20 goals in 45 games, revealed that he is undergoing "psychiatric treatment, taking medication." "Many times I fall back into my addictions and out of anger I fall into self-destruction and that also destroys the people around me. I don't feel like seeing my family, sharing things with my children," continues the one from Lanús. , who lives "alone locked up at home." "I don't do anything productive with my life. Sometimes I don't feel like getting out of bed, or washing myself," continued the former striker for, among others, Inter, Juventus and Roma.
Osvaldo, who in addition to Spain and Italy played in England, Portugal and Argentina, remembers that during his active time "he was a completely different person, full of security and confidence."
"Now I am a person that I do not recognize and it is having a hard time getting out of this. There are some out there who have gone through the same thing and I want to say that they should dare to talk to their family. I talked to part of my family about these things and Another person is going to find out with this video. It is very difficult for me to talk about things, it is difficult for me to open up, to get out of the reality that is generated in my head. It is very difficult to distinguish what is real and what my head invents," he said.
He also explains that he spent "almost all his savings" and has no income, but that he doesn't mind "dying poor." "What hurts me the most is that I am impoverishing my soul. I was always a good friend and a good companion. I wanted to be a good father, although many times it didn't work out. I don't want to play the victim. I make this video so that you understand my attitudes, which sometimes Sometimes I can't handle them. I want to apologize to my family, my friends, my children and Daniela (his ex-partner)," he concluded.
