Goodbye Palito, we will continue shouting your goal year after year

The first half was played Velez and Careers in the Olympic Village, when hernan Little stick Manriquethe technical assistant of the Liniers Club Reserve, decompensated for the first time.

In the preview of the game, as soon as the technical talk of bravo marcelo with his directed, he remained sitting in the locker room with a picture of malaise, retrosternal pain and sweating. They suspected a picture compatible with a heart condition. He claimed that something had gone wrong.

Hernán was a committed boy. As a player he was that mix of mixed midfielder who might be able to fill in for a creative or play more defensively, depending on the team’s need. A perfect example is one of the goals that I shouted the most in my life and that will remain forever in the history of New chicago.

It was the first final for promotion, in 2001, between chicago my Institute. Christian gummy gomez I had a sick family member and couldn’t play.

replaced it Little stick, like playing hook and converting the only goal of the game. A goal that just remembering it gives me goosebumps. As a player, in addition to chicagoplayed in First with belgrano and Union. On the rise, he played with all the boys, Chacarita and Hurricaneamong others.

Before starting the Reserve match between The fortin and the academy, the situation did not improve. Little stick was a little pale but responded within normality. Even so, the doctor alerted the ambulance to send an extra unit and performed an electro. The charts show rates of a mild condition. The worst had yet to break. She remained under observation in the locker room but the game was beginning to play.

after football, Little stick he got fully involved in the technical direction of youth. He worked a long time with the Children of River and later it happened to the youthful ones of Velez. For a long time, he alternated this work with the coordination of Baby soccer for Glorias Argentinas.

We didn’t see regularly. We share the affection of those who are linked by the emotional bond that sports success generates. We got together especially on the anniversaries of the rise of newchicago of 2001, but we also ran into each other in some youth soccer match of Argentine soccer where he was Velez, Hurricane or a loved relative.

That football that is a meeting point is also a stress factor for the coaches. Little stick Until a few weeks ago he had been with the First Division and if you add to that the family situations that any of us can have in life, the cocktail is explosive.

While the first half of the match was being played booking, the news from the locker room was not good. Hernán had suddenly decompensated and they revived him with the external defibrillator. He was immediately put into the ambulance with the idea of ​​taking him to the Posadas Hospital, where Vélez usually refers and is referred due to personal ties.

The issue is that after a few blocks he became decompensated and decided to change course to take the Ituzaingo Hospital, which is the closest to the Olympic Village. Where I no longer arrive alive.

Hernán’s departure leaves a great sadness in all of us who knew him, especially in the family and his closest friends. With his daughter, they were preparing the celebration of 15 years for the middle of the year.

Life surprises you at a stroke. Eduardo Galeano had a phrase that went like this: “On a football Sunday one can die of a heart attack; without football you die of boredom“It is tremendous what football generates in many of us, in one way or another it has us trapped.

Big hug, Hernán! Your goal will continue to be celebrated and recorded even as the years go by.