Pato Toranzo’s raw revelation 7 years after the hurricane accident in Venezuela: “They considered me dead”

The incident suffered by the hurricane in Venezuela on February 10, 2016 is a well-remembered episode in the history of the establishment of the Parque de los Patricios. A little over 7 years after that tragedy, patrick toranzo he revealed new details, told what his life is like after the accident and left a very harsh testimony of a situation he had to live.

Huracán had won 1-0 in Buenos Aires and had to play the second leg on Venezuelan soil. The result was not favorable for those of La Quema, but due to a goal by Diego Mendoza At the end, which scored the definitive 2-1, the team led by Eduardo Domínguez managed to access the group stage of the Copa Libertadores. All was joy and illusion.

The next day, and starting a journey to the airport back to the country, the bus carrying to the campus overturned and, even if there were no victims, the most affected were Patricio Toranzo, the physical trainer Pablo Santella and the striker Diego Mendoza.

El Pato, who retired in mid-2022, was a guest on Fox Sports’ “La Zona” and commented on how his life has changed both sportingly and personally after the accident. “It changed my life and changed me sportingly. It’s not easy. I’m talking to you and the pain accompanies me. The pain accompanies me. 24 hours hurt me. I played, up to 90 minutes he touched me, they hit me and I got up”he expressed.

In the course of the conversation, he brought up an experience that he had kept well hidden and which, of course, shows how distressing it was having to go through a situation of this nature. “I haven’t told anyone. They considered me deceased and only after eight hours did I speak to my family. I didn’t want to talk to anyone, I had to focus on what was going on in there because I knew that if I didn’t have the strength and fought with the Venezuelan doctors, who have behaved very well, I wouldn’t be alive,” he explained.

the midfielder, who underwent the partial amputation of four toes on her left foot, told in detail how it was time for the first of his operations. Logically, flooded with uncertainty and fear, he has performed actions that are difficult to imagine in a situation that is not limited. “In Venezuela I didn’t want to be given general anesthesia because I wanted to see what happened. Luckily they didn’t cut my foot. Then they operated on me in Argentina and I let them put me to sleep there.”

In that same 2016, just three months after the serious accident, Toranzo returned to court. To be more specific, it was on May 13 against Unión de Sante Fe, in a Tomás Adolfo Ducó who broke his palms entering the field. Then his career continued, he played for Huracán until 2019, moved to Almagro and Club Atlético Ciclón de Bolivia, but in 2020 he returned to the Parque de los Patricios team and two years later he ended his career with the ball on the chest.