Wife-stealing scandal shocks Argentine football

Icardi and Wanda Nara were criticized for cheating on Maxi Lopez.

Maxi Lopez is a familiar name to Argentine football fans. He married fellow model Wanda Nara in 2008 and has three sons: Valentino Gaston (born 2009), Constantino (2010) and Benedicto (2012). Family life seemed peaceful until a third person appeared.

That's Mauro Icardi, who was born nearly a decade after Lopez. Icardi was a product of Barcelona's famous La Masia academy. He moved to Sampdoria in 2011 in search of career development opportunities.

The two players first met in 2008, when Icardi was still in the Barca youth team. But at that time, their relationship was not really close.

The turning point came in July 2012, when Lopez left Catania to join Sampdoria on loan. As teammates and compatriots, Lopez and Icardi quickly became close friends at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium.

With his generous personality, Lopez often invited Icardi to his house for meals, and even invited his junior to join his wife and children on trips . However, the excessive closeness led to a love tragedy in the Lopez family.

Icardi and Wanda Nara secretly had an affair and cheated on Lopez. Many sources said that Icardi started seducing Wanda during his family trips with Lopez. Unable to resist the attraction of the man 7 years her junior, Wanda betrayed her husband.

The famous group photo of the three main characters.

Upon discovering the painful truth, Lopez filed for divorce from Wanda Nara and the court settled it in December 2013. This incident caused Icardi and Wanda to face a wave of criticism from public opinion.

However, Icardi denied that he and Wanda had an affair when she was Lopez's wife. The striker, born in 1993, affirmed that the two only officially dated when Wanda was a single woman.

The feud between the two players reached its peak in April 2014, during a Serie A match between Sampdoria and Inter Milan. Lopez refused to shake Icardi's hand, an act so suggestive that the Italian press dubbed it the "Wanda derby".

Lopez refused to shake hands with Icardi.

In May 2014, Icardi and Wanda Nara officially tied the knot in an intimate ceremony with only 12 guests in Buenos Aires. After the wedding, Wanda continued her modeling career and also acted as her husband's representative.

During their 10 years together, Icardi and Wanda's relationship has also experienced many ups and downs. The couple has two daughters together, Francesca (born January 2015) and Isabella (October 2016).

By July 2024, Icardi decided to divorce Wanda Nara. Although Icardi still tried to hold on, their relationship officially broke up. Argentine media reported that both Icardi and Wanda Nara were discovered to have had affairs while they were married. To this day, both are still involved in a lawsuit for custody of their children.

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