The game suspended between Gymnastics and Fencing of La Plata Y Boca Juniors in the Forest it must have been a party that defined the final stretch of the tournament, but it was a black day that will be remembered for the rubber bullets, tear gas and excessive police repression that culminated in a fatal victim.
Nine minutes of play were enough because the accidents around the stadium forced the referee to decide the suspension of the match for lack of guarantees. The remaining 81 minutes will be played on Wednesday 19 October.
One of the players talked about what he experienced on the pitch on Thursday night. Franco Soldanoex Boca and currently forward for Wolfhe told how it was the search for his relatives who went to support him at the stadium: “It took me 45 minutes to find my familyit was the longest 45 minutes of my life ”, he began by recounting ESPN.
Chaos, despair and anguish have taken over the situation. The Gimnasia striker also reminded the Lobo fans that they had to escape from the tear gas for lack of air: “Looking, I saw the desperation of the people, that they were having a bad time.”
After spending almost an hour looking for his family, Soldando decided to access one of the stands and even returned to the playing field, where thousands of people were seeking healing, until he finally found them: “I went up to a stable, I don’t know where I’m from, then I went out on the field, until I found them, and it was a great relief“.
His father: the doctor who treated the plateists
In the stands were his father, his sister, his 4-month-old niece and his pregnant wife. Finding them was an odyssey like no other. But also because his father, who is a doctor, has dedicated himself to helping people who were in the public due to lack of medical care.
“My father is a doctor, he started to treat people in the audience too, because there was not even an ambulance, nothing. Until I told him to please come in, to give priority to my wife, my sister was also with a 4 month old baby, she is her daughter. It’s all very sad, “added the Gimnasia forward.
On this present that Argentine football is going through, the Gimnasia striker thought deeply: “The problem is that, if we already get used to this … We let the guests not go, there are matches in which not even the whole people can enter the stadium The dream of every boy who plays football is to live a night like today, play against Boca, with the stadium full, fight for the championship, with your family watching you and live a night like that of today all that illusion you have as a boy collapses because you realize that what is really important is something else“.
The 28-year-old Cordovan placed particular emphasis on the moment he realized that the situation in the Forest had worsened: “When we walked in and we started hearing the rush of people passing through the locker rooms and that the whole gas issue began. to approach the stalls where the families were, I think it has become dangerous there ”.
And it ended powerfully: “It ends up being a very sad night, It should have been a party because it was the date party and it ends up being awkward“.
Source: Clarin
