Esteban Andrada He is the main protagonist these days after what happened against Huesca. Waiting to know the sanction for his punch to Jorge Pulidothe goalkeeper is going through a delicate moment but is an expert in overcoming very difficult situations.
In fact, life has not made it easy for him since his childhood. He was born in the Argentine town of San Martín and was the fourth of the seven children they had. Graciela and Mario. As a child, he lost his father in a traffic accident and months later one of his brothers, so he had to help his mother get ahead. He had to work harvesting grapes, where he suffered the hardness of an exhausting job for a very skinny boy like him. He needed to earn money for his family and didn’t think twice. Until football gave him the opportunity to succeed.
A big ‘scare’
However, in 2014 in the Lanús ranks, the football world gave him a big scare when he was kidnapped for a couple of hours. They took him away in a car and he had one of the most distressing moments of his life. His brother-in-law was the person who led the negotiations to free him. “They started asking for 80,000 pesos, then 50,000 and he ended up giving them 23,000, plus 2,000 that I had in my wallet. I have never experienced something so ugly in my life,” he recalled in different interviews. Luckily he came out unharmed but that chapter marked him.
Expulsion of Andrada in Huesca-Zaragoza
Now he has another difficult moment to face, but due to his past experiences, his character and the help of his family, no one doubts that he will overcome it too. Andrada knows that he was wrong and apologized after a match in which he lost his temper. He will assume the consequences and hopes to get up again as he did before.
