“I have some confessions to make about my life. It’s difficult for me but I think the time has come, I feel the need. I have been struggling with depression for a long time which has led me to some addictions, alcohol and drugs, I feel that life is getting out of hand”.
That’s how it speaks Pablo Daniel Osvaldoformer footballer, among others, of Juventus, Roma and Fiorentina. A strong, hard, very difficult confession. A request for help, which as we will see did not go unheard. But it should make you think. As we write, images of Osvaldo flow through our minds, first as a footballer, then as a musician when he tried to enter the world of entertainment. We see him smiling, happy, confident. And instead something was already starting to make its way inside.
Daniel Osvaldo. Photo source: Mediaset Infinity
Osvaldo’s career
Argentinian, precisely from Buenos Aireswhere he was born in 1986, but naturalized Italian, Osvaldo began his professional career in 2005 with Club Atlético Huracán in Argentina, before moving to Europe in 2006 to play with Atalanta. He then moved on to Fiorentina in 2008, where he scored 24 goals in 54 appearances. Then the landing at Bolognato Espanyol and finally to Roma28 goals in 57 appearances in the capital, Southampton, Boca Juniors and Porto, l’Inter and the Juventus.
Osvaldo. Photo Source: Corriere.it
The request for help
When he hung up his boots in 2016, perhaps the worst period began. It has already happened to other footballers, accustomed to the limelight, to the crowds of stadiums, to a golden world in which you are protagonists and then, quickly, you are left aside. And we find ourselves alone, with our own ghosts, our own weaknesses. “What I want to tell and share with you is that I am undergoing psychiatric treatment, I am taking medicine, I have a specific illness, loss of self-esteem, depression and many times I return to my addictions, I fall into self-destruction. But I can’t get out of it”.
Thus Osvaldo lays bare his fragilities. “I just live indoors, I don’t go anywhere, I’m not interested in getting out of bed, leaving my room, eating. I fell into very bad addictions which only made my depression worse, it hurts me not to want to share things with my family, my children. In the past I was a top footballer, I was a completely different person, proud and confident. This is someone I don’t recognize”. Many showed solidarity with the footballer, friends, former teammates. And in the last few days a club has also officially offered him the availability to train. And the Club Atletico Talleres, in Argentina. And who knows, this might be the first step towards recovery. Actually no, the first Osvaldo has already done it: talking about it.
2024-03-24 11:24:25
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