Argentine soccer player Lucas Trejo lost his wife and two children after powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela, his club confirmed — a devastating toll that left the sports world grieving one of its most personal disasters in recent memory.
Trejo’s team announced the deaths, though further details about the victims’ names, ages, and the exact circumstances of their deaths were not immediately available.
Venezuela was hit by powerful seismic activity, and the quakes claimed lives across the country. For Trejo, the destruction was total. His entire immediate family — gone.
The Argentine midfielder’s club didn’t release information about Trejo’s own whereabouts during the earthquakes, nor did it say whether he had been in Venezuela at the time or was with his family when the quakes struck.
Venezuela sits along active fault lines, and significant earthquakes have periodically caused casualties in the country’s coastal and inland regions. The scale of fatalities and damage from this particular seismic event, beyond the loss reported by Trejo’s club, hadn’t been fully detailed by the time the team made its announcement.
Trejo, who holds Argentine nationality, was playing professionally when the news broke. His club’s statement confirmed the deaths but offered no timeline for any return to play or further comment from the player himself.
The full death toll from the Venezuela earthquakes and whether international aid efforts had been mobilized were not specified in the team’s announcement.
