Pooular Argentine footballer Lucas Trejo has lost his entire family including his wife and two children in the deadly twin earthquakes that struck Venezuela over this past week.
According to U.S. media reports, Jerjes Trejo, who plays for Club Sport Marítimo La Guaira in Venezuela’s second division, spent three days searching through the rubble for his wife, Yanina, and their children, Aaron and Ainhoa, before rescue workers recovered their bodies.
“Club Sport Maritimo La Guaira deeply mourns the irreparable loss of our player’s wife and children,” the team said in a post on Instagram, accompanied by a photo of the family.
CNN reported that the 38-year-old footballer was attending his club’s training camp in Caracas on Wednesday night when the magnitude 7.2 and 7.5 earthquakes struck.
He immediately returned to his home in La Guaira — the state worst hit by the disaster — to “a horrific scene,” Trejo’s brother-in-law Ricardo Ardiles told CNN.
“He found absolutely nothing of what the building itself had been,” Ardiles said.
On Sunday, Club Sport Marítimo La Guaira said it “deeply mourns the irreparable loss” of Trejo’s family in a social media post, sharing a photo of the four together –– Trejo with one hand resting on his daughter’s shoulder and the other around his wife.
Player Héctor Bello’s Wife Andrea Protecting Daughter
Similarly, another player, Héctor Bello earlier disclosed that his wife Andrea Bello died while shielding their 20-month-old baby girl during the twin earthquakes that hit Venezuela. The soccer player shared this on Instagram June 26.
The soccer player, a defender for Venezuela’s professional team Marítimo de La Guaira, announced that his wife Andrea Bello died while protecting their 20-month-old daughter Alana.
“You’ll always be our favorite hero, Mommy,” Héctor wrote in a June 26 Instagram tribute, translated from Spanish. “I’m going to make sure our baby remembers how wonderful you were, how much you loved her.”
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