Liverpool and Croatia defender Dejan Lovren has been left heartbroken after he found out that his wife has been cheating on him with a forestry worker.
Lovren made the move from Southampton to Liverpool for £20million in 2014 and has been with his wife Anita since they were 16, making it around 11 years that they’ve been together.
In a bid to save his marriage, the defender missed Croatia’s Euro 2016 campaign to be with his wife.
According to The Sun, Lovren was said to be embarrassed when he discovered the affair which was with a forestry worker named Dario Torbic, an old friend of Anita’s who earns about £200-a-month (compared to Lovren’s £65,000 a week).
The Sun reports, The affair started when his wife, 26, and Dario met up last December in their home city of Zagreb. Anita persuaded Dario to fly to England and they got together at a Liverpool hotel after which they swapped hundreds of love messages.
She left her home in England with Lovren in March to return to her homeland and, The Sun on Sunday understands, went to see a divorce lawyer.
Anita told £200-a-month Dario, who lives in a rented flat, that they would be together.
A source said: “Dejan and Anita’s marriage has been rocky for some time and she sought refuge with her old friend Dario. They had a whirlwind affair and she told Dario she loved him. She told him she would move back to Zagreb and was thinking of divorcing Dejan. She convinced him she would do it. But when Dejan found out he hit the roof.
“He was really hurt at her infidelity. It hurt his pride. He admitted he had not been the best husband but he provided a nice home and life for her and their two young children.”
“It hurt his pride and affected his football. It’s usually footballers cheating on Wags, not the other way round.”
Anita eventually decided to ditch her lover and rejoin Lovren in England at the family’s home with their children Elena, three, and Josip, one.
She and Lovren had first got together at 16, moving to France in 2010 when he transferred from Dinamo Zagreb to Lyon.
They are thought to have split for a short time but reconciled when she found out she was pregnant. They tied the knot so she would not give birth out-of-wedlock.
