FC BarcelonaTOIndomitable on and off the field
Nor is there another intent toArturo vidalthat his mother. The controversial Chilean has repeated it in numerous interviews. The name ofJacqueline Pardo, which is what his father’s name is, appears linked to the footballer of theBaraOn numerous occasions. The reason? He told himself in a sincere interview in the newspaperThird. “My mother is the first thing that comes to my mind whenever I think about my childhood. How he fought, how he devoted himself only to us, all the effort he had to make to give us something without having anything. The cold we had to endure, the hunger … That gives me strength. I know it can’t be any worse than it was then. “
Coming from where I came from, being a footballer was more of an obligation than a dream. “I was 14 years old and one day my mother came back completely exhausted. And I thought, ‘This can’t happen again. I have to become a footballer in any way.’I decided to do three, four, ten times more effort than anyone in each trainingto reach professionalism. “
In his childhood account, Arturo obviatesErasmus, his father. They say in Chile that her mother decided to start from scratch alone with her children, fed up with the problems with alcohol that until that day was her partner. Still, and despite having no relationship since, Erasmus has remained a nightmare for him.
The same day of his presentation with theBayern, theChilean police detain his fatherfor possession of drugs and weapons. The phrase with which he dispatched the matterArthurit was quite a sentence. “He has his life, I have mine. He is old enough to know what he is doing. I myself have a family with my wife, two children and my mother.”
Neither the life of theKing Arthurhas been oblivious to controversy. Some of them have been very popular. The first one that is remembered is in 2007, inCanadian U20 World Cup. He ended up arrested and handcuffed after a fight with the police, which Vidal and his colleagues accused of using racist expressions.
Four years later, accompanied byGonzalo Jara,Jean beausejour,Carlos CarmonaandJorge ValdiviaHe was drunk in the concentration of the team after participating in the baptism of the son of Valdivia. They were all punished with20 matches without dressing La Roja, although, after asking for forgiveness, the punishmentfinally dropped to fiveencounters.
That same year, other images of him with symptoms of having drunk during a concentration of the Chilean team placed him in the eye of the hurricane. This time he was accompanied byGary Medel. They appeared in a video with the Colombian modelMonica Jimnez, then partner ofex of Sevilla.
But it was not the last. In2015, you give before the end of theAmerica Cup,VidalHe was in a car accident on his way to the rally after a day off. Your imageFerrarishattered he immediately went viral. The midfielder received no punishment and held a press conference toask for forgiveness. “I had two drinks, then I had an accident that everyone knows. I put my wife’s life, many people’s lives at risk. I am very sorry,” he said between tears.
That volcanic character has also marked his football career. Off the court he has become popular for his verbal incontinence. TheReal Madridlong before landing in theCamp Nouhas been his favorite target: “Two goals offside. The non-expulsion ofCasemiro, who had to have gone before me. When they rob you of a match like that … It showed a lot, “he said after a Champions League tie.
Able todenounce the Barato understand that they owed him 2.4 million euros, there are few doubts about his commitment to the grass. “On the court I am transformed, because I have to defend my team, my colors. I am a warrior. Everyone knows that I will never stop fighting, that I will always give one hundred percent to recover a ball.Let no one forget that football has given me the best of my life. See my mother happyJacqueline, her intent again.
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