Paco Jémez
continues without a team after leaving
Rayo Vallecano.
However, sport is still part of his life, and
golf is one of his great passions
, for which he has also become a
hero.
Last Monday, the Canarian coach was at the
A Zapateira golf course
,
in A Coruña
.
And as
'La Voz de Galicia'
has told
, the Spanish coach, while crossing towards a hole, he found several scared old men while
another was lying on the ground
.
He was not breathing, had no pulse, and was purple to blue in color.
It was then that Jémez decided to rush to them to try to help.
The lying man's friends quickly called the ER while telling the coach that he
had suffered a heart attack
.
The quick help of Jémez, decisive
Paco Jémez dropped to the ground and began to perform a heart massage and resuscitation exercises.
Meanwhile, on the phone he received instructions from a doctor.
"
Do not stop giving him the massage, which is the only thing that can keep him alive,
" they said from the other side of the phone.
At that moment, a nurse,
Mari Carmen Badía,
appeared
,
who took over from the ex-footballer to try to save the life of the man, who was not breathing or had a pulse.
A few minutes later the
emergency services
arrived
,
who
managed to stabilize him and evacuate him
.
Now Ignacio - that's his name - is recovering in a hospital in A Coruña.
They also made it clear that
without Jémez's intervention, he might not have survived
.
In addition, Ignacio confessed that
it was not the first time he had had a heart attack while playing golf
, but the previous time it was less serious.
Jémez tells EFE the sequence: "The ambulance
took fifteen minutes to get there because it is not easy
, but they were very fast and spectacular when treating him."
Now, he
feels a "personal satisfaction that you cannot imagine"
because they managed to keep the man alive.
"And when they call you from the club and tell you that it is stable, the satisfaction is brutal," he confesses.
He admits that "there is nothing else like being able to help a person who was dying" and therefore has a
"happiness that is incomparable with anything else
".
"Neither in football nor in anything, I have never felt such great satisfaction," continues the football coach.
This season he has not sat on the bench and
recognizes that he has that "desire to train"
, of the "day to day" in front of a squad, and that this period without a team is already "long" for him.
Jémez explains that he has had some training options,
but with the pandemic, it has been difficult for him to take the step
and now he waits for "something interesting" to arrive.