Ezequiel Lavezzi’s health: what the clinic where he is hospitalized is like and step by step towards his latest crisis

At 38 years old, Ezequiel Lavezzi He experiences firsthand the parable that many sports figures have experienced. After a successful career in which he enjoyed fame, popularity and money (in 2017 he became the highest paid player in the world), following his retirement in 2019, Pocho once again made headlines in the least desired way. In recent days, a series of health problems have emerged that have worried the world of football: it all started with the confusing news of a domestic accident in Punta del Este and ended with admission to an addiction rehabilitation clinic in Buenos Aires.

Ezequiel Lavezzi, world runner-up in Brazil 2014 AND Olympic champion in Beijing 2008he is admitted to a mental health clinic in Buenos Aires, where several celebrities have already been treated, such as the musicians Charly García and Pity Álvarez, the actress Noemí Alan and Felipe Pettinato (the last two in the Castelar branch) among others.

Retired from football since 2019, Lately Pocho had left the sports pages for entertainment pages. His love affairs with models and his reputation as a bon vivant who could be seen partying in Punta del Este or aboard luxury yachts in the Mediterranean, made him a coveted item in gossip magazines.

The truth is that, at this moment, Lavezzi is undergoing treatment and the news was confirmed by his family. Through a post on social networks, his son Tomás came out into the open to cross-reference some journalistic versions. “My father is undergoing treatment and is doing well.. Stop making up things that aren’t true. He doesn’t have any overdose or whatever they say“, said the 18-year-old who plays for Unión’s youth team.

His father suffered a deterioration in his health. And he was accompanied by his people to seek treatment. As it turned out, after following a battery of studies at a clinic in BelgranoLavezzi was transferred to another rehabilitation center in Boedo.

This hospital offers several environments with recreational areas so that hospitalized patients can recover and relax. Furthermore games such as ping pong, conference room, dining room, gym equipment and a large patio where green color and vegetation prevail. At the same time, it has a large number of high-level professionals and specialists (the best graduates of UBA) to treat each of the patients.

An admirer of Maradona and friend of Messi, Lavezzi, who worries everyone in the world of football, has lived hectic hours in recent weeks. On December 20 he suffered a domestic accident in his home in the José Ignacio spa., in Punta del Este, and was transferred by ambulance to the Cantegrill Sanatorium, in the Uruguayan city, to be treated. Second the first versions As Uruguayan media reported, Pocho arrived at the medical center with “a short puncture wound to the abdomen and a fracture at the collarbone level.”

María del Carmen Lorente, director of the Esteña clinic, the same one where Diego Maradona arrived in 2000, on the verge of death, and spent 20 days hospitalized, reported: “I can confirm that he fell, suffered a trauma during a social event and fractured his collarbone. This is why he is hospitalized here, he is stable, the traumatologist has seen him and surgery is not necessary. “He will remain under observation.”

Days later, Lavezzi left Cantegrill and was transferred on a medical plane to Argentina. And on Saturday 23rd, Christmas Eve, Pocho reappeared on the networks showing a black and white photo in which he was seen healed, or at least without significant physical damage. At Christmas Eve dinner, his son posted a photo with him and the boy’s mother. It was, until now, the last image in which the former striker appeared publicly.

Lavezzi had a great career in which he won 15 titles. He started at Estudiantes de Buenos Aires, took off in San Lorenzo, passed through Naples and PSG, to end his journey in Hebei China Fortune, magnetized by millions of dollars. But not everything happened, fame and money. Now the most important thing is his health and his recovery.