After two and a half months of hospitalization, the Argentine center Clemente Zavaleta was discharged

Two and a half months after suffering a serious accident during a game in Palm Beach, USA, Argentine polo player Clemente Zavaleta, son of gold hat-trick María Eugenia Roussé, was discharged on Friday from a specialized center located in Atlanta. (Georgia). .

Zavaleta himself gave the good news through the Instagram account he shares with his wife, Isabelle Storm. “Today I am out of danger and I am grateful for the love of God, Jesus and the Virgin Mary who gave me faith and energy to come out of this test of life and give me a second chance,” he wrote.

In his message, the 36-year-old polo player also thanked the medical teams at St. Mary’s Medical Center in West Palm Beach and the Shepherd Center in Atlanta, the two health centers where he was treated, “for their dedication and professionalism,” as well as his family, friends and the polo community. “Even to people I don’t know who have prayed everywhere for my health and to the world of journalism for respect for my privacy,” he added.

In recent weeks, the player from Alegría’s organization had shown “an extraordinary recovery”, according to what relatives of the family had told Clarín: he had regained his mobility and even took short walks around the clinic. Although he left the health center this Friday, he must now continue with his recovery.

Seven-handicapped player and member of Fred Mannix’s Canadian team Alegría (along with two other Argentines, Agustín Merlos and Juan Bollini Jr.), who was participating in the top-tier polo season in the United States, Zavaleta suffered head injuries and his legs, his brain stem – he had a clot -, as well as several fractured ribs and an injured lung, during a match against Catamount, made up of Pablo Pieres, Ignacio Novillo Astrada, Victorino Ruiz Jorba and Scott Devon.

The second chukker was being played and the score was tied with three goals on each side when a very unfortunate play occurred in which Zavaleta was left in the air as he was about to look for a loose ball and an opponent, who could not stop, has rammed him and finished knocking him and his mare down.

The strong impact caused him to fall which resulted in his injuries and left him unconscious for about 15 minutes until a helicopter took him to St. Mary’s Medical Center. The match, valid for the Palm Beach Open, the third World Polo League (WPL) tournament to be held in the United States, was immediately suspended and left unfinished. At the health center, the athlete was put into a coma and underwent an emergency operation to drain the clot that had formed in the head.

Clemente is the son of a character with a long career in polo, both on and off the pitch, Clemente cork Zavaleta, but it is his mother, María Emilia, one of the famous Golden Triplets, the most popular of the family. The entertainer and singer quickly went to the United States to be at her son’s side and through her social media she expressed her encouragement and thanked her for the continuous messages of support to Clemente.

corkscrew Zavaleta has been married since 2014 to Isabelle Strom, a professional Amazon with whom are the parents of little Olympia and Assia Eugenie. Her partner is the French heir to Birger Strom’s fortune. When this tycoon passed away in July last year, he left his daughter in a club located an hour’s drive south of Paris, in a bucolic place with a castle included. She is also the granddaughter of the French aristocrat Robert Zellinger de Balkany, owner of a large emporium of shopping centers in France and Belgium.