The shocking scar of Luciano Sánchez, the Argentinos player who fractured the Brazilian Marcelo in the Copa Libertadores

On August 1, 2023, a sequence starring Luciano Sanchez and the Brazilian Marcelo he toured the world. It happened during the first leg of the round of 16 America’s Cup Libertadores. In the action, Rio’s established left-back literally broke the Argentinos midfielder in two. And this Tuesday, almost 7 months after the injury, Sánchez appeared with a shocking and chilling scar to Diego Armando Maradona during the duel between Bicho and Independiente Rivadavia.

Sánchez was observed near the local reserves bench and with a kind of immobilizing boot on his left leg and with a long scar on one side of his thigh.

“Speaking in Creole, so that people understand, which is easier than giving technical things: it is practically a separation of what is the femur, of the tibia and fibula, of what is the knee joint. There is one complete tear of the anterior cruciate, the external lateral, part of the patella, part of the posterior cruciate…”, explained Alejandro Roncoroni, general secretary of Argentinos and a doctor by profession, at the time. And he added: “In 23 years as a doctor I have never seen such an injury, Villani (AFA doctor) told me the same thing in 40 years. It is almost a separation of the femur and fibula. There is a break in the anterior and posterior cruciate and we need to see what the menisci are like.”

Sánchez, who had received and accepted Marcelo’s apology at the time, underwent surgery for the first time on August 21. He then underwent a second surgery on November 25. Since then he has recovered with the hope of stepping on a football pitch again. In principle, Cheche could only be available for the second half.

But Sánchez’s presence was not the only one at La Paternal: Ezequiel Ham, the midfielder injured by Carlos Tevez in an Argentinos-Boca match in 2015, returned, this time to Independiente. El Turco received a standing ovation and local leaders They gave him a t-shirt with the number 22. And Bicho’s fans also remembered Apache with a song.