The former soccer player and DT Sebastián Gallego Méndez, was a guest on ESPN and surprised with his testimony by revealing a delicate family situation that he had to go through.
"I had a bad time, but my son had a worse time...", said the former defender, who wore the jerseys of San Lorenzo, Vélez and Banfield, among other teams, in addition to having a long career as a coach, which included experience together with Diego Maradona in Gymnastics and Fencing of La Plata.
According to the Gallego, his 21-year-old son Santiago suffered a health problem that forced him to leave his career for a while and dedicate himself fully to the young man's recovery.
"I was in Mexico, my mother called me and told me that I was sick. I took the first plane I could and when I got to Buenos Aires I was already hospitalized. That year passed, I don't want to go into many details, but now it is very good ", explained Sebastián, who in another section of the talk spoke of the importance of registering as a bone marrow donor.
"It was a hard year, he was cured of something very screwed up. It's a blessing. You often think 'why did this happen to my son' and something much worse could have happened to him. He was able to heal, there is no other way to look at him. You can't live lamenting. When you see that he fights with everything, you have no choice but to accompany him, my son is a beast and you have to accompany him, "said Gallego, somewhat thinner as he later recognized.
Méndez was directing the Tijuana when he traveled to Buenos Aires to accompany his son.
The last hospitalization of his son lasted "a month and a half" and occurred in the middle of the World Cup in Qatar.
This is how Gallego told it, moving everyone on the ESPN floor: "I loved Argentina, I lived it with him, it was great. When he made his debut against Saudi Arabia, he was hospitalized in Favaloro, and we ended up watching the World Cup at home from his mother, with him. Happiness... Do you know how nice it was to see him yelling 'give him champion'? If you're moved by seeing the players. For me this was the best World Cup, but not because of him for something else. And if we lost the final I was going to celebrate the same, I didn't care at all".
"Inside me I thought that the players of the National Team had given him a gift," added the coach.
"It was a remedy to see the Selection," Méndez agreed with Pollo Vignolo, conductor of the cycle.
And he completed: "If the players knew the stories behind them, the joys they bring to the people...".