Shocking revelations by Patricio Toranzo seven years after the accident in Venezuela: ‘I went into the operating room and I didn’t know if they were going to cut off my foot’

One of the most significant episodes related to Argentine football was the accident suffered by Hurricane In Venezuela on February 9, 2016 when he traveled to play a Copa Libertadores match. He Globe pitted Caracas for the rematch of the qualifying playoffs for the group stage and a goal of Diego MendozaMore He scored the final 1-2 which meant the passage to the next round of the tournament. However, the joy of victory was diluted during the trip the team made the next morning: the bus’s gearbox and brakes broke and the driver overturned the vehicle in a ravine.

Most engaged in this episode was patrick toranzowho had to undergo surgery due to injuries to the toes of one of his feet. “It changed my life and it changed me sportingly. It is not easy. I speak to you and the pain accompanies me. The pain accompanies me. 24 hours hurt me. I played, until 90 minutes it touched me, they hit me and I got up. I didn’t tell anyone. Person. I said very little about what happened. They considered me dead and it was only after eight hours that I spoke with my family. I didn’t want to talk to anyone, I had to focus on what was going on in there because I knew that if I didn’t have the strength and didn’t fight with the Venezuelan doctors, who behaved very well , I wouldn’t talk about a streak in my career. “, he revealed during a conversation with Fox Sports on how he gets over the dramatic moment seven years later.

Moreover, he explained that being close to death changed his perspective on how to see and apprehend the daily life: “It is the most difficult. Because over there, you listen to me talk about football… first of all, I’m grateful to be alive. God gave me 10, 20, 30 more years. I am extremely grateful. But inside, you don’t know how you feel. I can tell you but feel, you will never feel. The second the light goes out. See what we can achieve. We are beginning to value a lot of things. Life is something that if you don’t experience something traumatic or serious, you don’t realize what is going on around you”.

The big fight that had the pato in northern South America was to avoid returning to Argentina without one of its members. “I could never talk about it. I think it’s the first program I take part in after football. I fought so they wouldn’t cut off my foot. If it was because of the situation, it was to cut off his foot in Venezuela, do a voiceover, and see each other in another life. I had a career ahead of me but I didn’t know if I was going to play again, walk,” he said of his comments to local doctors.

Once in the country, he again underwent surgery in an attempt to salvage his professional career. “I had three operations, one in Venezuela and two here. I the only thing I said Fernando Locasso before entering the operating room ‘please tell me if you are going to cut my foot now. I don’t want to wake up and it’s not here’. He looked at me and said, “I don’t know, until I open it, I don’t know what’s going to happen.” I went to the operating room without knowing it, under general anesthesia. In Venezuela it was local because I wanted to know what they were doing to me”concluded the delighted ex-player.

Patricio spent the next three years with a contract at Huracán and He returned to court on May 13, 2016 against Unión. In mid-2019, he terminated by mutual agreement with the Globe and looked for new horizons: first in the ascent with the jersey of Almagro then had an international experience in the Cyclone Tarija from Bolivia to end his career with a fourth cycle at Parque Patricios until May 2022, when he announced his retirement. Throughout his life, he played a total of 363 games and converted 29 chances.

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