Chimy Ávila, from his family tragedy in Rosario to play for Spain: “It is the country that sheltered me and my family learned to live without fear”

Ezequiel chimy Ávila said he felt “proud” for having been summoned to the Spanish national team, after being included in the list by DT louis of the source. He also talked about his neighborhood, his past and the new life of his family.

“I am very happy to integrate the previous list. I keep working day by day, I don’t despair and, if it’s my turn, I’ll be very proud to defend the Spain shirt”, highlights the soccer player born in Rosario and nationalized Spanish, in statements reported by the Spanish sports newspaper brand.

The striker was called up by De la Fuente in a preliminary list of players and, as established, on March 17 the final list for the friendlies that Spain will play on March 25 in Malaga against Norway and on March 28 he will visit Scotland in Glasgow, in matches valid for the classification for the Euro 2024.

Source: Telam.

The story of overcoming Chimy Ávila

Born in Junction Barn, a neighborhood northwest of Rosario. He is brother of Gaston Avila, former defender of Rosario Central and Boca. He shared a squad in the Boca youth team with Leandro ParedesHe was there from 10 to 14 years old. He asked to return to his family and at 16 he debuted in federal shot. A year later she had a test in the Spanish who directed Mauricio Pochettino, six months after returning to the Rosario club. He was father and his daughter suffered a respiratory infection and for two years Carlos Dávola, president of the club, accused him of stealing club clothes. He was found not guilty. He left football to work as a bricklayer. He achieved a test in San Lorenzo and in 2015 he made his contract. In three seasons he played 30 games and scored two goals.

In 2017 he began his stage in Spain, first in the Huescaa loan, then in 2019 Osasuna bought the pass for 2,700,000 euros. In 2020, he suffered two ligament tears, one in each knee and received strong news: “Five days after the first knee operation, I was with my feet up on the couch and they called us to give us the news that they had killed my 20-year-old brother-in-law, his wife and one-year-old daughter. At three, with a submachine gun, from a motorcycle. in the neighborhood. He had to fire them by video call, with them in the drawer. The only one who was able to travel was my wife, who had to dress her one-year-old niece inside the coffin and her brother, of course.. That hit us very hard. Our lives have changed completely, because he was like our son”reflected in an interview with the magazine Panenka.

The harsh story of how life is lived in Empalme Graneros

“I’m not afraid because, as they say in Argentina, ‘I never had money and fear’. But my family always tells me: ‘Perhaps one day you return to the neighborhood and the one you hit in a bowling alley ten years ago is now crazy in the head, drugged and shoots you.’ No matter how famous you are or whatever. There are no codes or laws. They shoot you in front of your daughter and that’s it. It’s ugly. Because what else would I want for my daughters to be able to play in the pasture where I played on a rainy day. Dangerous neighborhood? Dangerous was mine, in which they do not forgive even a one-year-old girl”.

Heartbreaking story with weapons

“I see a lot of players who go home and are with their childhood friends. I can’t go because you don’t know if they’re going to kill you at any moment. People are confused because they think that having a gun in hand is the best way to go. I have carried weapons on my waist and you think you are a superhero. And you are not. You are not the owner of the life of the other. You can’t go around taking lives or saying: ‘I have money and I will always be paying to kill someone’. Because? I don’t know, but it’s the reality.”

Violence in Rosario

“The reality is that. ‘You paid to have my brother killed and I’m going to pay more to have your father killed.’ So always. It is a never ending cycle. Because on top of that the new generations grow up knowing everything that happened. “This one killed my dad’s dad and now I’ve grown up and I’m going to take revenge”. And so continually.”