Brian Fernandez He is one of those players that football – strictly speaking, its organizers – love to push under the rug when they are not scoring. Because when he is centered and aligned it is usually essential, but when the opposite happens, no one knows what to do with it. Except marginalize him from the upper campus or terminate his contract, of course.
The addictions he confessed have accompanied him throughout his life, added to his rebellious spirit that knows economic and emotional shortages, have shaped a profile that scares most managers. And if football doesn’t cover him when he’s off center, Fernández is adrift.
The last few months have been spent between Caballito and Puerto Madryn. In Ferro, after his departure from Colón, things went on until the absences and acts that football likes to classify in the disciplinary category began. The first opportunity that the club had to negotiate it, he did so and so he wore the Deportivo Madryn shirt.
From there he returned with a bow, for the same reasons he had left. But this time the purslane has decided to reinstate it. It didn’t last long. The absences from training have again closed the door and the player has returned to Santa Fe without too many explanations or certainties about his future.
In that province, this Wednesday, he was arrested for stoning a bus on Santa Fe Avenue and Lt. Loza, at the stop on Line 5, where he also caused riots. According to police sources quoted by the portal “Aire de Santa Fe”, he was transferred to police station 18.
Last week the striker turned 28 and his future as a footballer is unknown. From the first in Defense and Justice has added 10 shirts. Four were abroad and the periods with the most games played correspond to the second local category, with the colors of Halcón and Ferro.
“Drugs ruin you, leave you lifeless. I’ve been through difficult times, but now I want to play football and be happy. I am with friends and family a lot, containment is essential. The ball heals the wounds “, he told the Primer Tiempo program on FM 94.7 in February 2019. Those were times of improvement in the life of the striker who landed in Nexaca, Mexico, after a year of difficult exits that had brought him from Sarmiento de Junín to Metz in France, and from there to Unión La Calera, Chile, to go across the Pacific to the Mexican team.
The sentence in the mouth of Fernández on the negative power of addictions could lead to the definitive recovery. Hand. It was a reflection of someone who recognizes and takes charge of their problems. His sayings, or street riots, work the same way: they are an explicit request for help. In front of a microphone on the radio, or with stones in the street.
A race against each other
“We wouldn’t have hired Brian if we knew he had that addiction because we don’t want to lose capital. The best thing that can happen to him is to go to the hospital and undergo rehabilitation. ”With that dehumanized reflection, the president of Racing, Víctor Blanco, referred to the doping sanction that took the striker off the pitch for a year.
It was October 2015 and the dream of dedicating himself to the Academy was fading for Fernández, who had to stop at 21. “We knew he came from a humble family with problems – added Blanco – but the psychological tests were good and that’s why we hired him. His family background and friends complicate him. His father also influenced him a lot. “.
He came from the break in Defense and Justice when Racing hired him in 2014. At that moment he was already arriving with the sign of conflict due to his problems off the pitch. But Diego Cocca, who had had it in Varela, tried to repair it.
The contract with Racing was broken before finalization. Two positive doping controls had kept him away from football for a year and a half. He packed his bags and went to Junín to see if he could enjoy fresh air and less visibility in Sarmiento than at the Academy.
He played five games at Sarmiento, 7 at Metz in France the following year, then 12 at Unión La Calera in Chile, settled better in Mexico, with 30 games at Necaxa and then joined the MLS to play Portland. He scored 15 goals in 20 games in the regular phase and the team had qualified for the last instances. Brian decided to stop the ball.
“I asked for help not to fall back into certain things that happened to me in my life. They told me there was a place where I could go. Nothing. I grabbed it, I said yes, I wanted to go today. And Me I left. And that’s what happened, “the striker said. The club had masked the striker’s absences by reporting that he suffered from a stomach problem. But he had decided to voluntarily enter the league’s behavioral health and substance abuse program.
After his shaky stint in MLS, the idea of settling in the club he loves and the town he grew up in didn’t work for Brian. He has only played five games for Colón. And his stay was marked, in addition to the pandemic, by conflicts with the members of Eduardo Domínguez’s technical staff and by a new outpatient hospitalization in Buenos Aires to treat his addictions.
Upon his return in early 2020, he too had problems. Diego Osella, at the time coach of Sabalero, declared that he had not summoned him for “family problem”. But hours later, the player’s family asked the Santa Fe police for “an undercover request of his whereabouts” because they didn’t know where he was. This time, it wasn’t the drugs.
“I woke up from a nap and found this. I can’t go out, so I don’t have a cell phone,” explained Brian. The player had reportedly been threatened with death by his father, a situation for which he spent a week without training, in agreement with Osella. “I didn’t expect to experience something like this with a relative. It’s something very crazy, more from a father. It’s a conflict for the shirt,” he said.
Again the change of air and the aforementioned course: Caballito (being a fundamental piece to fight for promotion to the Professional League) – Madryn – Caballito, with return to the inglorious Iron and end of the contract that returned him to Santa Fe, where police put him in jail Wednesday for throwing stones at a group.
Source: Clarin
