LOS ANGELES – Second chances are often the prelude to second disappointments. Today Joao Maleck knows. Today he is free, but still in prison.
The gates of the Puente Grande prison in Jalisco opened on December 15, 2020, but the doors of professional Mexican football clubs are gradually closing.
Maleck He was taken to prison after crashing into another vehicle with his car in Colonia El Colli, in Zapopan, Jalisco in the early morning of Sunday 23 June 2019. He was speeding and drunk, according to the latest expert reports. Wrongful death would be the charge, after the death of Maria Fernanda Pena and Alejandro Castro.
Originated in the Santos Laguna, the footballer was loaned to Porto and later Seville. The European clubs cut their relationship with him when they heard about the catastrophic events. The lagoon club had even registered it with the FMFmonths after proven guilt.
“He sends (Santos) their workout routines, ”he said on Twitter on November 16, Michelle Herrera, daughter of The lice, Miguel Herrera, recently fired as America coach, who visited the footballer in Puente Grande.
People close by Maleck claimed the Orlegi Group, owner of Santos and Atlas, the player had guaranteed that he would put him on the field for the Guard1anes 2021after he was released or ‘it got cold’.
However, so far, the former youth team has been selected by Mexico, has not been officially considered by any professional MX League team or the Development League, while his representatives continue to try to find him a place in the MLS and in Central America.
“According to the team we have today and the available positions in the front, it is very difficult that it can have a place in this squad,” he said. Dante elizalde, sports director of Santos, to the lagoon media, although he didn’t rule it out entirely.
However, the player is silently waiting at the suggestion of his lawyers, until a negotiation in January 2021 is successful. “I’m not closing the door on that option (to get into the Atlas) “, said Maleck after being released. He clarified that ‘now is not the time to think about it’ and insisted that ‘an immature junior entered the prison trial and that a very different junior is leaving today’, except that he has no intention of drinking alcohol again and that he is not allowed to drive. .
A verdict was passed on October 30, 2020 Maleck. A court in Puente Grande sentenced him to three years, eight months and 15 days, in addition to paying 3 million pesos for damages. That sentence would be deducted from the year and a half he spent in prison.
Upon hearing of the conviction, the mother of Maria Fernanda Peña published a statement rebuking justice in Jalisco and the player himself. “After verifying with specialist experts that you killed them for driving your sports car with more than 193 mg / alcohol in the blood and a speed of more than 188 km / h, you will be classified as a KILLER for life he wrote. Martha Álvarez Ugena-Pedrós.
“May you never forget, daughter, they released him … They spit in our faces again. They were joking about our pain again, ”he added in the document.
“Are you going to continue playing ball as if nothing had happened?” Martha Alvarez a Maleck in that statement, insisting that he will enforce his demands to demonstrate the corruption that he believes was behind the legal process.
Joao Maleck has no answer to that question yet. Those who advise him insist that he should wait until next year to appear in public, in addition to following a specific strategy to publicly demonstrate that he has been fully rehabilitated.
As part of that Maleck He would try to organize a series of interviews in various media and start campaigns against alcoholism and its effects in early 2021, but it is only part of a project to improve the public image.
In addition, according to versions close to the family of Maleckthe player has agreed to become involved in psychological treatment and full rehabilitation, coupled with the pledge he made not to drink anymore.
The point of reference is another player belonging to the Orlegi Group, Renato Ibarra, who has managed to partially leave behind the whole scandalous scene of domestic violence he went through with his partner. Lucely Chalá, who initially showed a video about that night of terror, but later dropped the charge prompted by her father, Cléber Chalá.
The Ecuadorian player has managed to generate some acceptance among some fans of the AtlasAlthough it has helped him keep the stadiums without an audience, so as not to expose himself to punishment from the podium.
Maleck he knows that the first approval will have to be found among the fans and later it will be less difficult for him to find a football team. He understands that on the field more than one rival would provoke him with allusions to the fatal accident he caused as a result of his excesses and that fans have been blaming him since his appearance.
In the most optimistic of considerations, Joao Maleck He believes he can return to football in Mexico until the second half of 2021, although he is looking for an immediate opportunity.
According to several reports, the person who has been directly involved in helping him in the process of change, rehabilitation and rehabilitation, and who is looking for a soccer team, has been made to be the sentimental partner of Diana Robles, mother of Maleck. It is about Marco Antonio Fabian Vazquez, father of the Juárez player, and born in Chivas, Marco Fabián de la Mora.
According to the Telediario edition of Guadalajara, a source informed him of a direct dialogue from Marco Fabian with the governor of Jalisco, Enrique Alfaro, to request your intervention in favor of Maleck, Last January. “I’ll see what I can help”, the president is said to have replied, according to the version published by these media.
For now, in days of absolute confinement, Joao Maleck he begins to understand that he is free, but that he is still in prison.