This is how Ezequiel Lavezzi is today: from electrician cadet to world runner-up, billionaire and sex symbol

Ezequiel Lavezzi turns 38. His life ranges from very public to indecipherable. Everything is known about his career as a soccer player, while about his private life, beyond the scandals with his ex, the most sensitive information is scarce, such as that related to the mother of his son, Tomás, and the incredible capacity he had for multiply the fortune he earned in soccer, a discipline that he wanted to abandon as a boy and that a few years later saw him runner-up in the world.

Pocho Lavezzi was born in Villa Gobernador Gálvez, a town near the city of Rosario and began as a player in the Rising Sun Kids Clubto later move to the lower ranks of Club Atlético Coronel Aguirre and then to Rosario Central, where from one moment to the next he stopped being taken into account by the coach of the division in which he was.

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His talent was indisputable and He got the opportunity for a test in Boca, where after being accepted he argued with Jorge Griffa for the position in which he should play and left. The frustrations made him think about abandoning his dream of being a soccer player, until at the insistence of his older brother, Diego Lavezzi, he accepted a test at Estudiantes de Buenos Aires, where he made his professional debut at the age of 17, in the First B Metropolitan. At that time, when the idea of ​​becoming a player was diluted, Pocho worked as an electrician’s assistant for his brother.

From that time, the site Pity Nobody, Masterportrays the Pocho as follows: “From Villa Gobernador Gálvez to a pension in San Telmo. He would go to Constitución and from there by subway to Retiro. If they trained on the Estudiantes field, they would go down to Caseros, otherwise they would continue to Hurlingham. So every weekend the Crazy would get off the train, take Belgrano to Urquiza and from there he would hit him straight to the field. He came without tattoos and with a bag full of goals and dribbling”.

And that brilliant and unforgettable note written by Juan Stanisci adds: “Crazy He arrived at Caseros to play in the inferiors. In only four games they promoted him to First Division. One morning while training, El Negro Rodríguez, the Estudiantes coach, approached him and told him that he was going to make his debut that weekend. It was against Platense at the Ciudad de Caseros stadium. Crazywhich before and after would be The Pocho, He entered with the 16 and in a couple of dribbles he changed the face of a team that had been floating in the middle of the field. Hope returned in the Caseros neighborhood.

In 2004, when he was 19 years old, his pass was bought by Genoa of Italy, which in turn He loaned him out for a season to San Lorenzo, where he was a figure of the Clausura 2007 title, the first of the 12 championships he would achieve in his career at the club level.

One year later, On May 11, 2005, Ezequiel Lavezzi would become the father of Tomás, who until now is his only son, lives in Santa Fe and is about to turn 18 years old.

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Who is the mother of Pocho Lavezzi’s son?

This is one of the lesser-known stories in the life of Ezequiel Lavezzi, who does not talk about the relationship he had with his son’s mother beyond some mention like the one he made on October 15, 2017, when in a public message He wrote: “Happy beautiful chubby day!!”, in reference to his mother, who appeared in the posting photo, while then he said: “Happy day to all Argentine mothers, especially Valeria and Débora (Tomi’s mother).”

In 2007, Pocho took the big leap in his sports career when He was transferred to Napoli in Italy for six million euros. There he became an idol and won the Italian Cup in 2012.

It was then that the Pocho began to amass an incalculable fortune and become a sex symbol. His first contract at the southern Italian club was for a sum that exceeded one million euros per year, while in his second term his salary amounted to 2.5 million per year. From Napoli, where he achieved the peak of his career, he went to PSG, who paid 30 million euros for his token, already obsessed with winning the UEFA Champions League, which could not be. During his stay in Paris, Lavezzi won Ligue 1 two years in a row and the French Cup in 2014.

The magnetism generated by the figure of Lavezzi was such that brands began to see him as the ideal model for their products. Jewelry, perfumes, luxury clothing, automobiles and many other firms crowded behind him, who took full advantage of his success with rarely seen advertising contracts and a permanent search for his new look where tattoos and elegance were beginning to be his trademark.

A Little Selection

Ezequiel Lavezzi made his debut in the National Team on April 18, 2007 when in a friendly against Chile played in the Basile era, he replaced Rodrigo Palacio at minute 62 of the game that ended in a goalless draw. He had little, however, great experience in the youth, to which he had been summoned by Hugo Tocalli when he played in the Ascent with Estudiantes de Caseros. During his time in the different categories of the Albiceleste, he achieved a great relationship with Lionel Messi and became a good friend of Ángel Di María.

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In February 2008, Lavezzi was called up to the Olympic team by coach Sergio Batista and had good performances in friendlies. In August 2008 he began his participation in the Beijing Olympics, where he scored two goals, one against Australia and another against Serbia, and champion was consecrated.

In 2014, Ezequiel Lavezzi lived his consecration period in the National Team that was runner-up in the world with Alejandro Sabella. From then, in addition to sports in Brazil, he remembers his incredible reaction with DT, when he threw water at him with a bottle in the middle of a conversation during a game.

solidarity pocho

In October 2009 Ezequiel Lavezzi, along with his brother Diego, created the Niños del Sur Civil Association (Ansur), a non-profit entity that fully assists children and pre-adolescents in need of Villa Gobernador Gálvez, province of Santa Fe, Argentina

Through Ansur, children have access to a multiplicity of formal and non-formal education programs that work in an interdisciplinary way to promote comprehensiveness and reinforce their individual and collective skills. They have carried out vaccination campaigns and provide comprehensive assistance, from lunch and daily snack, school support, education workshop for life, computers and English, music, plastic arts, recreational activities and physical education; health care and psychological assistance. In addition to extra-programmatic and solidarity actions.

The fortune of Ezequiel Lavezzi

According to official reports, just because of his activity as a footballer, Ezequiel Lavezzi won about 100 million dollars in times where today’s huge figures were not paid. However, Pocho knew how to make what was already impressive wealth flourish, and he invested part of his money in real estate.

In Buenos Aires owns a dozen properties, including houses and apartments, some of the most luxurious, such as a penthouse in the Torres Horizons in Vicente López, two in the Torres Horizons on Avenida del Libertador, and an office floor in To the river and another in the tower Wave from the same neighborhood.

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in rosaryFor his part, he acquired another apartment in the exclusive Torres Maüi, and in Uruguay he has a farm facing the sea. That’s all? No, because Ezequiel Lavezzi adds departments as part of his investments in New York, Paris and Milan.

Beyond your investments, El Pocho was once again related to football from the role of communicator as a commentator on Champions League matches for international channels and even as an interviewer for the sacred gamea series prior to the Qatar 2022 World Cup in which he interviewed some of the stars who went to the World Cup.

Lavezzi’s retirement and his son’s greeting on his 38th birthday

El Pocho Ezequiel Lavezzi retired from soccer at the end of 2019. It was surprising, since many believed that I still had a lot to give as a soccer player. “I withdrew because I had lost the desire. I reached a point where I no longer wanted to train, despite the fact that I had offers from Europe, America and China”, Lavezzi told at the time with statements to Sky Sport.

Today, the charismatic ex-soccer player turns 38 and his son, Tomás, dedicated a meaningful post to him. “Happy birthday, dad. Thanks for everything you do for me. May life continue to fill us with beautiful moments and keep us together always. My best wishes to you, I love you.”

Ezequiel Lavezzi’s transfer history

• 2004 From Estudiantes de Caseros to Genoa of Italy for 1 million euros
• 2004 From Genoa to San Lorenzo (on loan)
• 2005 From San Lorenzo to Genoa (due to the end of the loan)
• 2005 From Genoa to San Lorenzo for 1.2 million euros
• 2007 From San Lorenzo to Napoli for 6 million euros
• 2012 From Napoli to PSG for 30 million euros
• 2016 From PSG to Hebei Fortune for 30 million euros.

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