Fede Valverde spoke for the first time about the incident with him Alex Baena last April after the dispute of Real Madrid-Villarreal within Santiago Bernabeu. The Uruguayan player attacked the Andalusian midfielder in the parking lot because, according to the version of the Uruguayan entourage, in a match the week before. Baena He snapped, “Cry now because your child will never be born.”
It can be remembered that one day after the attack, the Villarreal player filed a complaint that was finally filed in court.
Then the couple found out Valverde, Mina Boninowent through a dangerous pregnancy that finally ended in a happy ending with the birth of Baptisthis second child.
After months of silence, Valverde spoke about the events in an extensive letter published in The Players Tribune titled “Hell“and where he explains his whole life: from his humble origins in Uruguay, his explosion in Peñarol and the call of real Madridwho brought him when he was 17 years old.
In addition, she also elaborated on how bad she was when the doctors said there was little chance of the pregnancy ending successfully. That’s when he went into details about the attack Valverde.
“In April, after a game against Villarreal, everything went down. Everyone was reading the headlines. Everyone knew both sides of the story. I don’t want to bring these horrible things to light again. I’m just saying… On a soccer field, you can tell me anything you want, and it won’t bother me. I’m Uruguayan, for God’s sake. But there are some lines that shouldn’t be crossed . Not as a soccer player, but as a person “explains Valverde.
“He talked about my family, and it wasn’t football anymore. A line was crossed that day. Should I react? Maybe not. Maybe I should go home and share a hamburger with my son, eat some nugget and watch small drawings . But I’m a person, and sometimes you have to know how to stand up for yourself and your family,” added the midfielder.
“It hurts me to see that the media portrayed me as a violent person, many lies were told that later proved to be untrue. But I can honestly say that I have no regrets, because I have grown even more as a person, and it made our family more united than before,” said Valverde.
Source: La Verdad
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