The former player of Universitario de Deportes, Diego Guastavino, revealed in an interview with Sebastián Soto, a journalist from La Red Deportiva de Uruguay, that he once saved his then teammate Lucas Pratto, now playing for River Plate, from going to jail.
Between 2008 and 2009, Guastavino and Pratto played together at Lyn in Norway, and it was during that time that the Uruguayan had to help the Argentinean in an unusual situation. "One night he called me - Guastavino starts - and he asked me to go to his house because the police wanted to arrest him. The thing is, he had left his car, which had a broken handbrake, and he forgot to put it in gear. The house where he lived was on an incline. He got out and left, and when he went to answer the door for the police, the car was 200 or 300 meters down the hill," Guastavino recounted.
But the story had more to it. "The car had picked up speed and hit a few cars. Luckily, it didn't hit anyone. I didn't know what to do, and I arrived and said something, he said even less than me, and we were able to calm everything down a bit and had to call the people from the club to help him," Diego Guastavino humorously recalled.