{"id":137787,"date":"2025-11-17T14:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavozdeibiza.com\/sin-categorizar\/dani-benitez-breaks-his-silence-and-relives-the-mistake-that-destroyed-his-sports-career-i-took-a-line-of-cocaine-thinking-that-i-would-be-better-to-go-to-training\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T14:13:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T13:13:21","slug":"dani-benitez-breaks-his-silence-and-relives-the-mistake-that-destroyed-his-sports-career-i-took-a-line-of-cocaine-thinking-that-i-would-be-better-to-go-to-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavozdeibiza.com\/en\/sports\/dani-benitez-breaks-his-silence-and-relives-the-mistake-that-destroyed-his-sports-career-i-took-a-line-of-cocaine-thinking-that-i-would-be-better-to-go-to-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani Ben\u00edtez breaks his silence and relives the mistake that destroyed his sports career: &#8220;I took a line of cocaine thinking that I would be better to go to training&#8221;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"514\" data-end=\"1002\">The ex-footballer <strong data-start=\"530\" data-end=\"546\">Dani Ben\u00edtez<\/strong>, remembered for his time at clubs such as <strong data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"600\">Granada<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"606\" data-end=\"618\">Mallorca<\/strong>, is once again in the media spotlight after offering one of the most powerful testimonies of his professional life. He has done so in a new documentary broadcast by Movistar, where he reconstructs with crudeness the night that changed his future forever: a punctual consumption of cocaine that ended in a positive for doping and a sanction that stopped his evolution in the First Division. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1004\" data-end=\"1271\">Ben\u00edtez himself admits that, until that moment, he had never used drugs and that it was a decision taken out of absolute unconsciousness. The story, raw and unadorned, shows him facing a mistake that, as he himself admits, he will &#8220;always&#8221; carry with him. <\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"1273\" data-end=\"1346\"><strong data-start=\"1276\" data-end=\"1346\">The night that changed everything: alcohol, pressure and a fateful decision<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"1348\" data-end=\"1655\">The former player recounts in detail that Friday that led to the doping control that ruined his career. The story begins with a party at his house that went on much longer than expected. Sleepless, completely drunk and with training at 7:30 in the morning, he made a desperate decision.  <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"es\">&#8221;I did a line of cocaine believing that my body would be better to hold on to go train&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InformePlus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">.#InformePlus<\/a>: Dani Ben\u00edtez. \ud835\udc6c\ud835\udc8d \ud835\udc94\ud835\udc96\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc8f\u0303\ud835\udc90 \ud835\udc91\ud835\udc86\ud835\udc93\ud835\udc85\ud835\udc8a\ud835\udc85\ud835\udc90.   <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GAs91ZPOUR\">pic.twitter.com\/GAs91ZPOUR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Plus+ Report by Movistar Plus+ (@InformePlus) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InformePlus\/status\/1990365145843876232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1657\" data-end=\"2267\">&#8220;<strong data-start=\"1658\" data-end=\"2224\">He arrived on a Friday and we had a party at home, and it dragged on. The next day I had training, it would be 7:30 in the morning and I was very drunk. I said, &#8216;Oh my God, now I have to go train and I&#8217;m not in a state to go train&#8217;. One person said to me: &#8216;Take a line, you&#8217;re going to wake up and go train&#8217;. And I did a line of cocaine. That was the biggest mistake of my life and I will always carry it with me. I did a line of cocaine believing that my body would be better to endure and go train. I had never taken drugs in my life, never in my life.       <\/strong>&#8220;, he explains in the documentary <em data-start=\"2252\" data-end=\"2266\">Informe Plus<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2269\" data-end=\"2509\">The result of that night is well known: the anti-doping control after the match against Betis, positive for cocaine, and a two-year ban that cut short his progression and closed many doors that until then seemed to have been open to him.<\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"2511\" data-end=\"2571\"><strong data-start=\"2514\" data-end=\"2571\">A mistake that took away his professional life<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"2573\" data-end=\"2838\">Months ago, the former player also addressed this episode on the set of <em data-start=\"2643\" data-end=\"2659\">El Chiringuito<\/em>, where he summed up in one sentence the impact it had on his life: &#8220;<strong data-start=\"2721\" data-end=\"2744\">They took away my life<\/strong>&#8220;. Despite the pain, he insists that he never had a subsequent addiction or habitual consumption. &#8220;<strong data-start=\"2841\" data-end=\"2970\">Was I addicted afterwards? No, not at all&#8230; I have always spoken about this subject openly and I have no problem in admitting my mistake. <\/strong>&#8220;he told Josep Pedrerol at the time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/lavozdeibiza.com\/en\/society\/adrian-rodriguezs-fathers-harsh-confession-about-the-actors-addiction-i-had-to-stop-seeing-him-because-otherwise-he-would-drag-me-down\/?swcfpc=1\">Adri\u00e1n Rodr\u00edguez&#8217;s father&#8217;s harsh confession about the actor&#8217;s addiction: &#8220;I had to stop seeing him because otherwise he would drag me down&#8221;.<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"3009\" data-end=\"3194\">Benitez clearly remembers that day of the positive, a match against Real Betis that came accompanied by a personal context that, seen in perspective, was a perfect storm. &#8220;<strong data-start=\"3197\" data-end=\"3379\">We were playing against Real Betis at home, on Sunday at 12 o&#8217;clock. I was coming off an injury and we had a party at home. I thought I was not going to be called up, I have said it many times.  <\/strong>&#8220;he says. But he was called up. And the worst decision of his life, taken just a few hours before, had no turning back.  <\/p>\n<h2 data-start=\"3498\" data-end=\"3557\"><strong data-start=\"3501\" data-end=\"3557\">The weight of a sanction that left him without opportunities<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"3559\" data-end=\"3754\">The two-year suspension became a difficult burden to lift. Although he tried hard to come back, to prove that it had been a one-off mistake, professional soccer did not give him another chance. &#8220;<strong data-start=\"3757\" data-end=\"3848\">One night I got drunk and made the worst decision of my life. That cost me the sanction <\/strong>&#8220;he admits.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/lavozdeibiza.com\/en\/current-news\/paris-jackson-is-moved-to-reveal-the-physical-after-effects-of-her-drug-addiction-i-can-pass-a-spaghetti-through-my-nose\/?swcfpc=1\">Paris Jackson is moved to reveal the physical after-effects of her drug addiction: &#8220;I can pass a spaghetti through my nose&#8221;.<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"3860\" data-end=\"4028\">Despite repeating that he never developed a drug dependency, the stigma of the positive accompanied him for years and conditioned any option to return to the elite. &#8220;<strong data-start=\"4031\" data-end=\"4150\">Was I addicted afterwards? No, not at all&#8230; I have never had a drug addiction problem, so to speak. 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