The accident suffered by Hurricane, in Venezuela, on February 10, 2016 is a well-remembered episode in the history of the Parque de los Patricios institution.
A little more than 7 years after that tragedy,
Patricio Toranzo
revealed new details, told what his life is like after the accident and left a very harsh testimony of a situation that he had to live.
Huracán had won 1-0 in Buenos Aires and had to go to play the second leg on Venezuelan soil.
The result was not favorable for those from La Quema, but due to a goal by
Diego Mendoza
at the end, which made it 2 to 1, the team led by Eduardo Domínguez managed to enter the group stage of the Copa Libertadores.
Everything was joy and illusion.
The next day, and embarking on a trip to the airport to return to the country,
the bus that was taking to the campus overturned and, although there were no fatalities, Patricio Toranzo, the physical trainer Pablo Santella and the striker Diego Mendoza were the most affected.
Patricio Toranzo told details of the accident that occurred in 2016. (TV Capture)
El Pato, who retired from activity in mid-2022, was a guest on the program "La Zona", which is televised by Fox Sports, and commented on how his life changed both sportingly and personally after the accident.
“He has changed my life and has changed me sportingly.
Is not easy.
I am talking to you and the pain goes with me.
The pain goes with me.
24 hours hurts me.
I played, up to 90 minutes it has touched me, they hit me and I got up
," he said.
As the talk went on, he brought up an experience that he had kept well hidden and that, of course, shows how distressing it was to have to go through a situation of this nature.
"
I did not tell anyone about this. They considered me deceased and only after eight hours I spoke with my family
. I did not want to talk to anyone, I had to be focused on what was happening in there because I knew that if I did not have the fortress and was fighting with the Venezuelan doctors, who have behaved very well, he would not be alive," he explained.
This is how the Hurricane bus that was traveling to the airport was left.
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The midfielder,
who suffered partial amputation of four toes on his left foot
, told in detail how the first of his operations was.
Logically, flooded by uncertainty and fear, he carried out actions that are difficult to imagine in a situation that is not limited.
"
In Venezuela I didn't want them to put me under general anesthesia
because I wanted to see what was happening. Luckily they didn't cut my foot. Then they operated on me in Argentina and there I did let them put me to sleep."
Patricio Toranzo retired from professional soccer in mid-2022. (Marcelo Carroll)
In that same 2016, just three months after the serious incident, Toranzo returned to the courts.
To be more exact, it was on May 13 against Unión de Sante Fe, in a Tomás Adolfo Ducó game that broke his palms when he entered the field of play.
Then his career continued, he played until 2019 in Huracán, went through Almagro and Club Atlético Ciclón de Bolivia, but in 2020 he returned to the Parque de los Patricios team and two years later he ended his career with the globe in the chest.
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