 After touring nine European countries with Andrade's Uruguayan club side Nacional, in 1925 attracted a total of over 800,000 spectators.Andrade played half of that tour when he was told by a doctor in Brussels that he had contracted syphilis he disappeared to Paris on hearing the news.Andrade did not return to Montevideo until two months later there a reporter said he had lost weight and seemed in a state of depression, he underwent a course of treatment.