The new Liverpool striker has a history of sacrifices and extreme poverty behind him: the sacrifices of his brother, precarious jobs, the floods of the river that took away his home, a terrible injury, then the turning point …
Those who know him well, around Artigas, swear that Nunez carries within himself the strength and vehemence of a river in flood. That same river that a few years ago swept away the family home and all traces of its past in one of the most dramatic floods that hit the border area between Uruguay and Brazil, where the fresh Liverpool striker was born and raised between misery and deprivation.