05/15/2021 18:10
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 05/15/2021 6:19 PM
It is said that football "is the most important of the least important", and despite the fact that this Saturday the 15th in La Plata a momentous match was played between Estudiantes and
Independiente
for the League Cup, the protagonist of the day at Rojo was
Julio César Falcioni
, the coach of the team.
Four days after the death of his wife, the Emperor joined forces and traveled alongside the campus to be on the substitute bench.
El Pincha and those from Avellaneda, two giants of Argentine soccer, are only three games away from being champions at the local level after a long time: some 15 years and the others 19.
For this reason, the duel (which recalls the old days of the Cup), announced a heavyweight final, with a closed result and a lot of dedication.
But off the field they were playing something else.
Independiente had to live a very hard week after the death of Ada, the DT's wife and mother of his two daughters, his partner for 46 years.
It was the sad outcome of a distressing stage for the coach, in which he first suffered from coronavirus and then had to be close to the delicate state of his wife's health.
On Friday the 14th, after saying goodbye to the remains of his wife, Falcioni expressed himself on the networks to thank, on behalf of his family, the cataract of messages he received in recent days.
And from the intern of Independiente they warned: "He is very emotionally beaten but with force, it depends on how he gets up tomorrow he will accompany the squad, he decides it of course," they explained.
"This gives us life," Pelusa told his namesake Diego Maradona in the preview of a match between Banfield and Gimnasia in November 2019, in a moving hug that went viral on the networks.
One of the images of the day took place in La Plata: Julio César Falcioni was present for Estudiantes vs.
Independent in the #CopaDeLaLiga.
pic.twitter.com/mlVCYdeSLE
- SportsCenter (@SC_ESPN) May 15, 2021
And this Saturday, Falcioni seemed to remember those words because he got on the micro of his players and appeared at the Estudiantes stadium to look for a place among the 4 best of the tournament.
"The tactical talk prior to the game was very emotional, there was a lot of emotion, especially from the younger boys," said the chroniclers who cover the club's current affairs.
Julio's tears came before the referee whistled the start of the game.
The Russian Zielinski broke all his cabal, approached to greet his colleague and Falcioni ended up breaking.
Then, there were several players who came to greet him, including the referees of the match.
The crossing between Estudiantes and Independiente began at 17.30 o'clock, the result was an anecdote.
It broke my heart to see Falcioni like this.
Force Julio !!
pic.twitter.com/JptXITszCP
- Mariano Santi (@santi_mariano) May 15, 2021
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The wife of Julio César Falcioni died: the support of the Independiente squad for DT
Julio César Falcioni expressed himself in the networks after the death of his wife
