Ezequiel Pocho Lavezzi is a cause for concern at this time due to a confusing episode that occurred in Punta del Este and that is being investigated by the local police. The former soccer player has been admitted to the Cantegrill Sanatorium since this morning after a confusing episode at his home in José Ignacio, where he was hosting a party with his family, and a medical report is expected to know his state of health.
According to the first versions published by the media in the spa city, Pocho arrived at the medical center with "a short puncture wound in his abdomen and a fracture at the level of his collarbone." For this reason, the first headlines spoke of a possible stabbing. However, the Maldonado Police, who were the first to arrive at the scene, only speak of an injury to his shoulder blade, while they investigate what happened.
There is still no official part of the clinic, the same one where Diego Maradona arrived in 2000, on the verge of death, and spent 20 days hospitalized. In the case of Pocho, the severity of the situation that the 38-year-old former soccer player is going through is unknown, who left his career in 2019 after a long career that had him playing with the San Lorenzo, PSG, Napoli and the Argentine National Team shirts, among others. other equipment.
According to the first information, this confusing episode starring Pocho would have broken out in the early hours of Tuesday, at his house in José Ignacio while he was hosting a party and after a family discussion, although from those around him they gave another version of the matter. .
At 5 in the morning, a police car arrived at Arenas de José Ignacio, where Pocho has a house, summoned by a call to the emergency line. There they found a badly injured Lavezzi, who had "a fracture in his shoulder blade," according to local police. The former soccer player was with his partner and part of his family, and together with the employees of the place they took him to Cantegril.
Pocho's family, for its part, contacted some media outlets to clarify that the former soccer player was injured due to a domestic accident. According to what they explain, he climbed a ladder to change a light bulb and fell from a height, crashing into a piece of furniture that caused a strong blow to his shoulder blade, and he was out of danger. Furthermore, they rule out that he was stabbed, but rather that his wound in his abdomen would only be superficial and the result of the same blow.
One of Pocho's last public appearances was at the beginning of December, when he was part of the Conmebol Legends match that was organized at the Inter Miami stadium, prior to the Copa América draw. Lavezzi played on the Kun Agüero team, with Gonzalo Higuaín, Maxi Rodríguez, Chiqui Tapia and the president of FIFA, Gianni Infantino, among others.
After that friendly, Pocho traveled to Punta del Este with the decision to spend the summer with his family, among whom is his partner, the Brazilian model Natalia Borges. On the Uruguayan coast, more precisely in José Ignacio, Lavezzi has a spectacular mansion with sea views that he usually shows on his social networks.
Lavezzi (38), a native of the Santa Fe town of Villa Gobernador Gálvez, emerged in the Estudiantes de Buenos Aires club, but was a figure in San Lorenzo de Almagro, then he went to play in Europe, where he stood out for Napoli in Italy and Paris Saint German and retired in 2019, at the age of 34, after playing for Hebei Fortune in China.
In the Argentine soccer team, he won the gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and played in the final of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, where he finished runner-up.
“On December 20 next time at 05:00 a police mobile arrives at Arenas de José Ignacio, Secc Jurisdiction where they request support from The Emergency. When the cell phone arrived, there was VICTIM Ezequiel IVAN LAVEZZI, who was injured and was being treated by the Emergency cell phone Dr. Agustini, who diagnosed a fractured shoulder blade and transferred him to Sanatorio Cantegril. "It is unknown at the moment how the injury occurred, he was at a party."
Paola Hernández, main officer of the Maldonado Police Headquarters, reiterated this morning to the TN news channel, the official information of the report and, despite the version of some Uruguayan media that mention that Lavezzi had also been stabbed, she clarified that "at At the moment, the doctors have not confirmed a stab injury".
In this regard, the newspaper El Observador headlined: "They stabbed former Argentine soccer player Ezequiel Lavezzi in Punta del Este: it was a family argument," and points out that police sources confirmed that the incident was "over a money issue."
"It is unknown at the moment (what the events were like). We are working on taking statements from witnesses at the scene, landlords and employees. At the moment, the reason for the injury is not known," added the police official.
Hernández added that, when interviewed by police personnel, Lavezzi told them that he had had "a party" and that, when he went to bed, he felt "a pain."
"That's why they call the emergency and the cell phone and there the fracture is diagnosed and they transfer him," said the main officer of the Maldonado Police Headquarters.
"Statements will be taken during the day to clarify the facts," concluded the police spokesperson.
