Last May, the former Brazilian defender Lucio, which has notably passed through Inter and Juventus, came close to death following a serious domestic accident: the explosion of an ecological fireplace caused him burns on 18 % of the body, some of which are in the second degree, requiring twenty days of hospitalization and several interventions. Four months later, he gave his news to the Gazzetta dello Sportentrusting his relief to gradually recover from this trauma: “I'm here to tell the story. God gave me a second half of the match: it will take me time to get shocked, especially mentally. I will need months before finding my full shape. Hospitalization is the hardest. Burns are difficult to manage, both physically and psychologically. I continue the skin treatment, which is long, but I'm better.»»
He detailed: “Everything happened suddenly. I died with a friend, shortly after celebrating my 47 years on May 8. The chimney had died down and, to try to turn on the fire, a friend threw a bottle of alcohol on it, and that's where the explosion occurred. I only remember flames on my face, my arms and legs. My wife was not injured, and that's when I jumped in the pool. I was transferred from Brasilia to Rio Grande Do Sul on May 21, and I remember very well my difficulty sleeping because of the pain. I had never spent so much time in the hospital; The operations were necessary to remove fabrics and install special dressings».
