Luciano Perdomo says he doesn’t even remember what caused the accident. He has no record in his memory of what mistake he made for everything to end the way it did. However, he tries to reconstruct the moments after the very serious crash that almost cost him his life. On January 22, while heading to training for Chacarita, the team of which he is captain, Perdomo lost control of his truck and collided head-on with a truck. Perdomo headed early to training with the squad, scheduled on the property owned by the Unión Tranviarios Automotor (UTA) in the Buenos Aires municipality of Morenowhen The Renault Kangoo van in which he was traveling became lodged under the trailer of a truck when it was traveling on Route 3 at kilometer 92..
As a result of the blows suffered, Perdomo was transferred to the San Miguel del Monte Hospital, where he remained in a coma and intubated for a week. Finally, he gradually regained consciousness and speech. Now back at home, the footballer is waiting for the go-ahead to be able to play again. This Friday, he was on the ESPN F90 program, where he told details of the incident that almost cost him his life. “It’s like being born again. It was quite hard for everyone, but I now have the strength and desire to move forward,” she hoped. However, when it comes to remembering the event, she recognizes that there are passages in which he does not know exactly what happened: “I remember little, to be honest. I remember the screenshot of the truck and nothing else. I was going to train, I estimate that it was my negligence, that I did not realize, I must have been distracted in something. Then it was seconds that I got out of the truck, I remember that and then I don’t remember much anymore,” said the 27-year-old midfielder, who came from Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata.
Perdomo recounted what followed the accident: “I was able to get out alone, the truck caught fire. My nose was bleeding. We left with the truck driver, who helped me, who was very attentive, he always stayed with me. [Quiero] Thanking him too, because it was very good, it helped me. The Gendarmerie was just passing by and an ambulance was just returning to Monte. She picked me up and they carried me away. I crashed I think 8 minutes to 10 and at 8 I was in the hospital. At the hospital I was very scared, because I was bleeding a lot, but I was conscious, I wanted to spit and they told me “wait,” and they brought me a bucket. That’s when Sofi arrives. [su pareja]. I told him “help me, please.” Nothing more, because I felt very bad. I didn’t know what was happening to me. Then they intubated me and put me to sleep. A week passed, but I thought it was just a day. At one point I didn’t know which car I had crashed into. Whether it was my mother’s or mine. I had a gap there when I came back. I realized that I had been in a coma for a week, that I began to understand the situation. I opened my eyes and everyone was surprised that she was talking, that she was saying prayers in succession, that she wanted to get me out of bed.”
He is still waiting for the doctors’ approval to return to practicing his activity, due to the head injuries he suffered. “There was no displacement of anything and you don’t have to operate, you have to wait for it to weld. I don’t eat solid, I cut small because I can’t force it to not generate movements. But nothing happened to my body,” he explains. “I was in an induced coma for a week because every time they wanted to wake me up they wanted to take out the tube. The first image I saw was my mother and Sofi. I understand that there is a process to go through, the doctor is letting me go little by little. I want to run now, if you let me. I had control on Wednesday, they took out the stitches. I had four stitches, everything was incredible,” he adds, and about his return to football he is blunt: “The doctor doesn’t even let me ask him, he tells me little by little, we go week by week, it looks very good to me. Hoping it heals everything.”
Perdomo says he is used to long journeys to train, since he has lived in San Miguel del Monte for a few years, where he has a business selling balanced pet food. “It is a routine for me to travel, I live there because it is much quieter. You can enjoy life in a different way. I have two little girls and that’s why the trip, which is an hour, an hour and 20. I left one morning like all the others and the truck just had the misfortune to take me there,” he said.
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