The heartbreaking request of DT Cisneros, in the midst of his fight against cancer: “Not giving up football is a life decision”

Gustavo Cisneros’ willpower shocks and infects. Last week, the coach of the Fenix ​​Athletic Club and historic coach of the Argentine promotion, published on his X account that he had started fighting prostate cancer for the second time, a disease he believed he had defeated after the first diagnosis in 2021 when he coached in Peru. On Tuesday, the coach spoke again and took note of the request made to his family and the team he leads, after the draw against Cañuelas, for the second match of the Prima B (Third Division) tournament.

“I’m suffering, I’m very sad. Now I’m going to the clinic, yesterday they wanted to admit me and I asked the oncologist to give me 24 hours. Here we are, day by day”confided Cisneros, to whom the players dedicated a flag before the match.

“Two chemo treatments await me on Friday, the AFA program for the match against Los Andes has also been set on Friday. I spoke with the doctors to try to get them as soon as possible. I promised the team to do everything possible to be able to be there “He added.

The 55-year-old coach thanked the “messages from the world of football”although he chose to highlight those of Gustavo Alfaro AND Nestor Lorenzowho currently manage the national teams of Costa Rica and Colombia respectively.

“The anger and sadness is that I fought a lot, I thought I had overcome it, but suddenly I lost control, because they are very insidious diseases, and this puts me in this situation for the second time. The body is not the same “he explained when he received the news from the doctors.

“I told my family that it was a life decision not to leave this, I talked about it with the players, with José de Rosa who is the vice president of the club. I will continue as long as my soul and body allow it. Me”he closed, in statements to TyC Sports.

The story of Gustavo Cisneros

His fight against cancer began 3 years ago, when he directed the Santa Rosa Culture of the Second Division of Peru. When he noticed that he was urinating blood, he went to the doctor and an oncologist diagnosed him with “aggressive” prostate cancer and later, bone cancer.

Thanks to the help of Arsenal de Sarandí, who were in the Inca country to play a Copa Sudamericana match, he was able to travel to Buenos Aires to continue his medical treatment where he was helped, among others, by Marcelo Gallardo.

170 days had passed since the fatal diagnosis, 14 chemotherapy treatments and a long, painful and expensive medical treatment; However, his fight was yielding good results and his recovery was favorable.

Then he took advantage of his social networks to thank for the help received and share his joy at the evolution: “10 cm in Peru, 8 when we had the PET scan in July. After eight chemo treatments, in October when we scanned it it measured 1 cm And now… “prostate of normal size and shape”. What an inexplicable sensation…”

However, last week he surprised with his publication in which he underlines that he will have to fight the tumor again, but does not put an end to the text as he maintains the hope that life will give him another chance.