“My parents abandoned me and now they ask me for money”: Lucas Pérez’s heartbreaking

Behind Lucas Pérez’s smile (36 years old) hides a story of pain and struggle that had so far kept silent. In an exclusive interview with Juanma Castaño in ‘El Partidazo de Cope’, the player has sincere his complicated family past and the recent legal dispute with his parents.

“My parents abandoned me with two years and now they ask me for money,” confessed the Galician, visibly excited. In addition, the new PSV striker revealed that since childhood he had to face the absence of his parents: «I have raised with my grandparents, my father’s father. With two years, my parents left me in an orphanage because they could not or did not want to take care of me, ”he was his heartbreaking testimony.

During the conversation, Pérez also reveals that the hardest blow came years later, when his parents reappeared in his life only to ask for money: «When I signed for arsenal, my mother sent me a bureaux claiming money, but she can’t do it because It doesn’t come out in shared custody, ”he explained. Recently, this situation has been repeated with his father, who took the dispute to a legal level: “This season, a complaint from my father comes to me in which he demands maintenance until the rest of his life,” he said.

The pressure for the family drama deeply affected Lucas’s emotional stability, leading him to make a drastic decision in his career: “From there I spend several months with a lot of stress and overwhelming, reviving very difficult moments of my life.” In the midst of his anguish, Pérez says he was going through a complicated period in Deportivo de la Coruña, a club he always considered his home: “I did not feel valued or supported,” he said.

The player also reveals that his situation the club reached a critical point when they asked him for a written commitment after requesting time to solve his personal problems: «There I consider that they do not know what Deportivo means to me, and when you doubt that way , it is best to put aside, ”he had regret and denied the rumors that linked him to other teams:” I have not spent medical examination with the lightning, I have never gathered or talked to them. When I get out of sports, I focus on cleaning my head and my personal situation, ”he said.

However, on January 30, in the midst of the family dispute, the PSV offer arrived, who from the beginning were comprehensive with their situation. «At that time, I was not able to sign with the club and told him. They wrote me every week and they told me they were for anything, that they would wait for me, ”he said.

Now, with his personal life trying to find calm, Lucas Pérez focuses his new club, and in his family. It should be noted that the striker is a child’s father, Irvin, two -year -old, along with the journalist Graciela Álvarez Lobo, a collaborator in ‘Zapeando’. Concentrated in the PSV with the clear objective of achieving the title and cup of the Netherlands, Pérez confesses that despite adversity, he never thought about abandoning his passion: “I did not think about retiring because I love football very much.”