Lucas Trejo, a Venezuela earthquakes soccer player, lost his wife and two children after two earthquakes struck northern Venezuela late last week. The Argentine defender was at training in Caracas when the quakes hit, while Yanina, Aarón and Ainhoa were at the family home in La Guaira.
Club Sport Marítimo de La Guaira
Club Sport Marítimo de La Guaira said on Sunday that the deaths occurred on June 24th during the earthquake that shook the entire country. The club wrote that it “profoundly laments the irreparable loss of the wife and sons of our player Lucas Trejo.”
Trejo had played for several first and second division soccer clubs in Venezuela since 2023 and signed with Club Sport Marítimo de La Guaira earlier this year. That detail puts the loss inside the daily routine of a player who was still building a career in Venezuela while his family stayed in La Guaira.
Ricardo Ardiles
Ricardo Ardiles said Trejo rushed home after the temblors and spent days digging through rubble. He described him as “emotionally overwhelmed” and said, “What he found was a horrific scene.” Ardiles added, “He found absolutely nothing of what the building itself had been.”
The scale around him was severe. According to Venezuelan government officials, more than 1,700 people died as a result of the quakes, and rescue teams were still pulling survivors from rubble in La Guaira four days later. In that setting, Trejo was searching for his own family while the wider recovery effort kept moving through wreckage.
Héctor Bello and Yimvert Berroterán
The earthquakes also hit other football families. Former Club Sport Marítimo de La Guaira player Héctor Bello lost his wife Andrea, who died while protecting their infant daughter; rescue teams later found the baby alive. On Friday, the Venezuelan Football Federation announced the death of 18-year-old Yimvert Berroterán, who played with the youth national teams from 2024 to 2026.
For Trejo, the immediate reality is already clear: his wife and two children are gone, and the search through La Guaira ended in rubble rather than a rescue. The football side of this story now sits beside a family loss that his club, his former teammate circle, and the broader Vinotinto community are still absorbing.
