The Argentina-born Italian endured a turbulent spell on the south coast but Osvaldo, now the lead singer of a band, will be long remembered for this strike
“From now on I can show how much I can do, and how well I can perform,” Dani Osvaldo said, after scoring his third – and last – Southampton goal, a peach in the very top right-hand corner: the proverbial postage stamp. It was a promising soundbite, but he failed to kick on from that sumptuous moment in December 2013 and instead head-butted his then-captain, José Fonte, in training, an incident that ultimately ended his career in England. Several subsequent short-term fixes were just that before he retired at the age of 30 last year. “Football was not happy, it is a world full of shit,” Osvaldo is quoted as telling Fox Sports. He continues to perform though, albeit in front of a different crowd.
Osvaldo is the lead singer in a five-piece band by the name of Barrio Viejo and the rock star he always wanted to be. One of the tracks from the band’s pending first studio album, Desorden, translates as “chaos” from Spanish. Throughout his 11-year football career, Osvaldo was a cover star too, no stranger to the glossy magazines, partly because of his relationship with his now ex-girlfriend, the Argentinian actress Jimena Barón.
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