03/02/2021 13:03
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 03/02/2021 13:03
Hard blow for Matías Almeyda: on
Tuesday
his father Oscar died after being admitted to the Pintos Hospital, in the city of Azul
, where he had been struggling with different health complications due to the coronavirus.
The news of the death
was confirmed by Silvia Calcagno
, the mother of the former soccer player, who is also admitted to the same clinic and reported it with a moving message on the social network
.
“While I am in the hospital bed recovering from COVID, here my husband Óscar Almeyda died;
a whole life together and today I can't fire him as I wish, but God arranges things.
What to say, I'm devastated.
I would like to be with my whole family, but I can't, Oscar you will always be in my heart I loved you and I will love you until the day we meet again the love of my life, "he wrote.
Silvia Calcagno's message, through Facebook.
Oscar Almeyda, 78, was an old acquaintance of local soccer and had an important career as a coach of the Lower Divisions and also in the First Division.
He had cycles in Vélez, Cemento, Boca, Piazza and San José, among others in the region.
El "Pelado", who currently directs the San José Earthquakes, of the MLS of the United States, has not yet expressed himself through social networks.
However, local people claim that he was present in Azul when the death occurred.
