Maravilla Martínez and the raw story of the Racing scorer jailed by mistake: “They want to rob you, they want to stab you”

He feels uncomfortable with the nickname “Maravilla”, but undoubtedly that from the first games Adriano Martinez with the t-shirt racing They could be classified this way. The striker, who joined the team Gustavo Costa After his good performance at the Instituto de Córdoba, he was one of the classic figures of Avellaneda and became six goals in the last four games.

Their story, however, is not that of those who had a clear path. Quite the opposite. He only made his debut at the age of 22 United Defenders of Zárate, of the fourth division of Argentine football, after being jailed for seven months after being falsely accused of burning down the house of those who shot his brother.

In dialogue with “A good moment”, radio program Netone of the markers of League Cup (he shares the lead with Miguel Borja, both with six goals) has told some of what he had to suffer behind bars and his story is shocking.

“I was only in a police station for a day and then I went to Penitentiary Unit No. 21 of Bell. When I arrived, I was one more. They want to rob you, they want to stab you. It’s like this. I went with my old man and some guy I didn’t know in a little truck and they stabbed that guy like ten times as soon as we got there. “I snapped,” he explained in a raw testimony.

Before his arrest, football was reserved for weekends, as the rest of his days he found work as a garbage collector. Then, when he had a car accident that severed several blood vessels in his hand, he had to settle for some masonry modifications.

However, during his stay in prison, the passion for football tormented him again. “The promise I made to God was that if he let me play football I would forgive those who had falsely accused me. I have never tried them for perjury. I wrote to them telling them that everything was fine and that I wanted to live in peace. “Whoever does not forgive, God does not forgive him”, she opened in this radio interview. Religious faith was one of the keys to overcoming the most difficult moment of his life.

“The day I entered I thought I would leave the next day. And it was seven months. They told me: “you’ll be out next month” and keep going. It’s like I start to lose hope,” she explained of life in prison.

In the midst of this nightmare there was one moment that stands out as the worst of all: “When we arrived, everyone was passing by where we were supposed to play football, an entire pavilion, and the police left the doors open. Here they come and they steal everything from you. No matter how Tyson you are, 20 of them come and ten have knives. They stabbed the boy next door a couple of times. “Sometimes it’s also knowing how to talk.”

And he left a very particular definition: “You don’t have to be very bad or be very good. If you play the bad guy, you face ten who have ten other friends. And if you’re very good, they’ll even steal your sneakers.”

He also told of the poor diet of inmates who had just arrived in prison: “While you are in the letterbox you have to look for them. During the time I was there, they gave a flute of bread made without yeast, so you had to soak it in cooked mate because it was very hard. “If your family doesn’t bring you food, you don’t eat.”