Difficult or even very complicated start to the year for Angel Cabrera.
The Argentinian, aged 51, was indeed arrested by Interpol this Thursday, January 14 in an upscale neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil).
According to the
Associated Press
, the golfer is suspected of assault, theft, illegal intimidation and disrespecting the Argentine authorities.
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Also according to
AP
, Angel Cabrera was on the Interpol "Code Red" list, a list established in order to locate and arrest a person targeted by a legal jurisdiction or an international tribunal with a view to extradition. .
Absent from the last Masters, scheduled for pandemic from November 12 to 15, 2020, due to a wrist injury, the most famous Argentine golfer since Roberto De Vincenzo (British Open 1967), he was visibly on the run after his ex -wife brought two charges for violence against him.
Another of her ex-companions had, in the Argentinian press, claimed for her part to have been hit, threatened and tried to be run over by a car.
Just that !
Worse, according to
Clarin
, Argentina's largest newspaper, two other former relations accuse him of "blows and threats".
Raised by his grandmother
This arrest could mark the final end of the career of one of the best South American golfers in history.
Winner of the 2007 US Open in Oakmont (Pennsylvania), one stroke ahead of Tiger Woods and Jim Furyk, he won the Masters two years later by beating the Americans Chad Campbell and Kenny Perry in the playoff.
In 2013, he lost this time, still in the playoff and still in Augusta, against the Australian Adam Scott.
Nicknamed "El Pato" (the duck), Cabrera, born in Cordoba in a poor family and raised by his grandmother, has fifty-two victories, all Tours combined, including three on the European Tour (between 2001 and 2005) .
He was also selected four times (2005, 07, 09, 13) in the international Presidents Cup team.
Senior (+ 50 years old) for a year, the Argentinian played on the very tough US circuit (Champions Tour).
In 2020, he started nine tournaments, the last in September at the Pure Insurance Championship.