Edgardo Bauzaone of the highest scoring defenders in the history of Argentine football and the DT who became champion Saint Lawrence on Libertadores Cuphe suddenly departed from the business after a short time by the river Central Rosary in 2019 after winning the Copa Argentina a few months earlier.

Bauza, 64, had alerted his inner circle when he began experiencing sudden changes in his behavior. Then, after several studies, he was diagnosed a cognitive disorder called temporofrontal dementia.

Although his illness was known in the football world, they chose to respect his privacy until, after several years of silence, the family chose to tell the suffering of Patón, who in recent weeks has received a tribute from Rosario Central and soon another will come. from San Lorenzo, the two clubs where he left the biggest mark.

So in the last few hours Maximiliano, one of his sons, gave more details on the state of health of the man who was part of the squad of the Argentine national team at the 1990 World Cup in Italy – he too was about to play in Spain 1982, but was disaffected in the last cuts-.

In this sense, from Rosario, the young man has shown the integrity with which he goes through this condition and has admitted it “Today the disease is more advanced and, like any degenerative disease, it has complications but the important thing is that it is calm and cured “

The origin of the disease

“When he finished working at Central we thought about going to the doctor because we saw some weird attitudes. It took a year and a half of consulting and studying before he was diagnosed. It changed a lot 6 or 7 months after I stopped working. The last thing this disease has hit is the reasoning. Some things were happening and it was like the books mark everything that happened to him ”, Maximiliano described in an interview with D Sports Radio (FM 103.1).

And he continued: “It changes your personality right from the start. We found out with the comments she made and things like that. We wanted to see what was wrong with him and they told us some time later. It’s not like they take your blood and tell you ‘and this‘”.

Bauza lives these days in Ecuador -There he became a hero by leading the Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito to also win the Libertadores-. There he is accompanied by his wife and other children.

El Patón has no physical sequelae of the disease, beyond the cognitive problems it causes. “It is already difficult for him to be lucid, you can hardly have a fluid conversation or anything like that”he complained.

And, when asked about the possible consequences that the high performance could have caused him, Maximiliano said he was unable to rule out or confirm this hypothesis. “We have read and researched thousands of things, but there is no way to know”he pointed out.

And he closed: “I asked myself ‘why?’ many times, but there comes a time when you have to accept and move on to get it out in the best way. If you stay in regret, you can’t do anything. It sounds cliché, but the important thing is always health. It is preferable to have nothing but health. There is nothing that is worth more. When these things happen, you realize it. “

Tributes for Paton

Days ago Rosario Central placed a bust of Patón Bauza on the property of Arroyo Seco. And later San Lorenzo confirmed that the hero who put an end to the spell in the Copa Libertadores could become the name of the South Tribune or in the local dressing room of the New Gasometer.

“He’s a very nice mime for my old man, he makes me very happy. It is good that these things happen that move energy and I know they will arrive somewhere “, said Maximiliano, visibly moved.

José Di Leo, a friend of Bauza and a long-time aide-de-camp, had also shown his anguish after the tribute they had paid him to Central.

“When I saw Patón’s bust I was angry, because he cannot enjoy and appreciate what they are doing to him. I would have liked him to be here, but because of his problem he has to be calm in the house. I have had a day of great anguish, sadness and many things have been confused. We went and we are brothers, everything hurts a lot, ”Camel told Super Deportivo Radio a few days ago, a program that airs on Radio Villa Trinidad.

And he added: “In January or February I will go to Ecuador. I want to see him and I don’t care if he doesn’t know me. I want to see what he is like. Every day I think that everything that happens to him is a lie and I live with the hope that it will be him again. Every time I speak I get sick.