The new Aguada player was one of the first basketball players to declare himself gay

In March 2020, Vega said that he was gay, something totally unusual in the world of men’s sports, and that due to this situation he considered retiring from basketball.

In the letter he published on social networks, Vega recounted what he felt during his first intimate encounter with a man and the confusion that situation generated in him.

“Those were months of absolute personal confusion. I lied to myself, I denied reality, I was frustrated, sad. I didn’t understand why that was happening to me, I wanted to be one more, I wanted to fit in. I wanted to be like my colleagues and friends. And I started to sink. I felt that my profession and my personal life were going different ways To the point that I came to consider retiring from basketball, which is what I love most in life, to dedicate myself to something that would allow me to have a calmer sentimental life, away from exposure. I really didn’t know what to do,” he said.

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Then she remembered the moment when she told her father, “with great fear (I would say terrified), taking for granted that he was going to throw me out of the house” and she was surprised because “it was a tremendous relief to find support in my family, beyond that it would cost them to accept it”.

Then he was able to tell his friends in Gualeguaychú. “I was tired of lying, of saying that I was with women when in reality it was not like that”.

Later, already playing in Comodoro de Rivadavia, “I took courage and told a great friend everything I had been experiencing. Trembling, I was able to tell him that I was gay. His reaction was super natural…”.

“I wanted and needed to feel freer. I had spent too many years in the shadows”added the basketball player, who then felt that his sexual orientation “would not change my personal situation, what I was as a person. I was very afraid of losing my job.”

He indicated that by telling it publicly, his goal was “to be able to close a stage and feel free once and for all. Free of guilt, of feeling lacking. Show everyone, and myself, that my profession and my personal or sentimental life can go same path. That I can be gay and continue playing basketball with the commitment I had since I debuted in the League”.

Below is the letter: