Ezequiel Chimy Avila is synonymous with redemption at 29 years old. The striker from Rosario became a benchmark for health after returning to competition after suffering of ligament ruptures on both legs in less than a year. A 2020 that will remain marked in the footballer’s memory not only because of his physical problems but also for a family murder.
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In dialogue with the magazine Dollthe soccer player opened his heart and uncovered one of the most intimate sides of his life when talking about what was the murder of his brother-in-law, his partner and his daughter, as well as the harsh reality that lives in his hometown, Empalme Graneros, northwest of Rosario. “Five days after the first knee operation (January 2020), he was with his feet on the chair and they called us to give us the news that They had killed my 20-year-old brother-in-law, his wife and the one-year-old girl. At three, with a submachine gun, from a motorcycle. In the neighborhood”, recounted the Osasuna striker.
In times when the coronavirus was spreading strongly around the world, Ávila said that he had to fire them by video call: “The only one who was able to travel was my wife, who had to dress the one-year-old niece inside the coffin and her brother, of course. That hit us very hard. Our lives have totally changed, because he was like our son”.
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Ávila was born and raised in a neighborhood where conflict, bad meetings and daily deaths reigned, however, regarding that, he acknowledged that he is not afraid to return. “But my family always tells me: ‘Maybe one day you come back and the one you hit in a bowling alley ten years ago, now he’s crazy in the head, drugged and he shoots you.’ As much as you’re famous or whatever.’”
In this line, the attacker who was in the orbit of Barcelona on several occasions, assured that in his neighborhood “There are no codes or laws”. “They shoot you in front of your daughter and she’s done. It’s ugly, because what else would I want for my daughters to be able to play in the pasture where I used to play on a rainy day”.
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“Dangerous neighborhoods? Dangerous was mine, in which They don’t even forgive a one-year-old girl.”he stated, adding: “I see many players who go home and are with their childhood friends. I can’t go because you don’t know if they’re going to kill you at any moment.”
In turn, the former San Lorenzo player was upset with his critics: “It hurts me a lot when people judge you without knowing what you experienced. Some say: ‘The player wins millions.’ yes but i I give you the millions I have and you give me back my brother-in-law. Because every day I see my wife crying.
At the same time, he recalled his past and reflected: “People are confused because they think that having a gun in hand is the best path to take. I have carried weapons on my waist and you think you are a superhero and no, you are not.
“You are not the owner of the life of the other. You can’t go around taking lives or saying: ‘I have money and I will always be paying to kill someone’. Because? I don’t know, but it’s reality,” she added. In this sense, he also referred to the famous “reckoning” and how revenge is a matter of never ending: “The reality is that. ‘You paid to have my brother killed and I’m going to pay more to have your father killed’. So always. It is a never ending cycle. Because on top of that the new generations grow up knowing everything that happened. “This one killed my dad’s dad and now I’ve grown up and I’m going to take revenge.” And so continually.”
Despite not being able to do anything to change that tragic episode that happened in 2020, in terms of sports, he managed to reverse the situation after suffering one of the toughest injuries for footballers. Today, Ávila is his team’s top scorer and has accumulated seven goals in 18 games. His next presentation will be nothing more and nothing less than against Real Madrid on Saturday, February 18 at El Sadar.
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