September 19, 2015 marked a turning point in Ezequiel Ham's career, a young player who emerged from the 'Bicho' youth team and showed great promise. In that match against Boca, the 'Turco' scored a goal and, aside from his achievement, he was having a heated confrontation with Carlos Tevez.
In the following play after a verbal spat with the 'xeneize' forward, the worst happened. In a 50-50 ball, Tevez stomped on Ham's leg with his cleats, breaking his tibia, fibula, and ankle. The result was a triple compound fracture.
The injury kept him out of the fields for almost two years, while the referee of the match didn't even call a foul. Let alone show a card. After 610 days without playing, he had a couple of matches in the Reserve team and only played three games in the campaign to promote to the B Nacional with Gabriel Heinze as the coach.
In the current Superliga, Berti told him he wouldn't be considered and Ham had to start looking for a club to play for. On January 30th, he signed a contract with FC Gifu of the Japanese second division.
Big challenge ahead, thank you @fcgifu for this opportunity 🤝⚽️
Posted by Ezequiel Ham (@turcoham) on Jan 31, 2018 at 3:04 PST
Meanwhile, as we all know, Tevez went to China to become the highest-paid footballer in the world. On the day of his return to Argentine football, Ham's brother posted a controversial tweet:
Young Argentine football players, beware. The humble kid breaker is back.
- Yamil Ham (@yham17) January 5, 2018