Steve Nash announces separation

Informs world of son’s birth on same day

Canadian basketball star and 2010 Olympics torchbearer Steve Nash announced he would be separating from his wife this weekend, the same day he announced the birth to his new son Matteo. “I am very thankful and excited that we have a new son, Matteo Nash. Alejandra and the baby are doing fine,” Nash said in a statement in a Life & Style Weekly. “But this is a bittersweet moment for my wife and I; after five years, we are now in the process of dissolving our marriage.” Nash, 36, and his wife Alejandra Amarilla dated for four years before marrying in 2005. They have twin daughters, Lola and Bella, who were born in 2004.

Vancouver Province